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Outages and Maintenance

  • Unscheduled Brown, Halstead, Hammer Gilbreth, and Workbench outage

    The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with home mounts around Thursday, September 16th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job schedul...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, September 1, 2021 from 8:30am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any tran...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot and community clusters outage

    At about 9:30am EDT, Data Depot servers started experiencing a ramping high load. Coupled with an ongoing scaling issues with the metadata subsystem, this caused Data Depot to become increasingly unresponsive for both community clusters and network d...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage on multiple clusters

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with mounting old Data Depot filesystem around 12:30am EDT. Multiple nodes are flagged offline by an automatic check, and bioinformatics application suite...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, August 4, 2021 from 8:30am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfe...

  • Unscheduled Brown and Hammer outage

    The Brown and Hammer cluster began experiencing issues with cooling in the POD data center around 5:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being add...

  • Unscheduled Brown, Hammer and Weber outage

    The Brown, Hammer, and Weber clusters began experiencing issues with cooling in the POD data center around 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is...

  • RCAC Whole-Floor Downtime and Power Work

    The majority of the Research Computing computational resources will be unavailable July 30, 2021 7:00am - August 1, 2021 12:00pm EDT for a whole-floor downtime due to electrical power work in MATH and POD data centers. Along with a required preven...

  • Unscheduled Brown outage

    The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with cooling around 9:00pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update...

  • Scheduling Paused on Multiple Clusters

    At about 4:00 pm today (Wednesday, 21 July, 2021) System Engineers found an issue with the schedulers on the Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters. Job scheduling has been paused while this is being investigated. Symptoms of this pro...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 7, 2021 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates, as well as se...

  • Unscheduled Gilbreth outage

    The Gilbreth cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch file system around 5:00pm EDT on Thursday, July 1st, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

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    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its home and scratch directories filesystem around 12:40pm EDT. Problems manifest as hanging new logins and unresponsive established sessions. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are workin...

  • Intermittent Access Failures on Data Depot

    As of Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience intermittent "permission denied" errors while trying to access their files on Data Depot. Errors may come and go, and may appear on both login and c...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Maintenance

    The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have the operating system patched and new hardware ad...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers which reque...

  • [Cancelled] Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Friday, May 14, 2021 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Scholar will have the operating system patched and several software u...

  • Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration

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    On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT, the Data Depot storage service will be unavailable while it will be transitioned to new hardware. All Depot access methods (SCP/SFTP, Windows network drives, Globus, NFS exports, direct mounts on Research Compu...

  • Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance

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    The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop clusters) will be unavailable Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT for Data Depot migration work. The clust...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from 8:30am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers...