Outages and Maintenance
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, January 6, 2021 from 8:30am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transf...
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Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage
On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...
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The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 11:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, work will be performed on several auxiliary servers. Prior to the maintenance, any SLURM jobs which request a walltime which...
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The Scholar cluster will be taken down for regular inter-semester maintenance and upgrades starting at Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 at 8:00am EST. All jobs which cannot complete before then will be held queued during this time, and no one will be a...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, December 2, 2020 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...
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The ITaP GitHub service (github.itap.purdue.edu) will be unavailable Tuesday, December 1, 2020 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance. The service will return to full production by Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 at 4:00pm EST. During this ti...
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Monthly RCAC GitHub Maintenance
The Research Computing GitHub service (github.rcac.purdue.edu) will be unavailable Tuesday, December 1, 2020 from 9:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance. The service will return to full production by Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 at 12:00pm EST...
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Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday
The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will work on finalizing the cluster's internal configuration. Both cluster front-ends and compute nodes...
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Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday
The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to fine-tune performance of the Bell scratch filesystem and...
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The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its job scheduler around 4:00pm EST. The problem manifests itself as Slurm-related commands (slist, squeue, sinteractive, sbatch, etc) being slow, unresponsive or timing out. Queue selection dialogs in...
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Home and Applications Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Most of the research computing clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop) as well as some other minor systems will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 at 9:00am EST, for...
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Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS Clusters Maintenance
The Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the clusters will have their operating...
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Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday
The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's int...
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Bell will be unavailable Tuesday night through Thursday
The Bell Cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 8:00pm EDT. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's internal configuration. During...
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Unscheduled RCAC GitHub outage
The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Friday, October 16, 2020 from 7:00pm – 11:59pm for an emergency maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the server in production. Opera...
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As of about 8:15 pm yesterday (Monday 12 October) the Slurm batch scheduler on Rice entered a degraded state due to a problem with its internal database. Job Scheduling on Rice has been paused while we work on this issue. We will provide an update b...
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The Halstead cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 1:15 pm, Sunday 11 Oct. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being address...
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The Halstead cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 9:00pm. 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 prov...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its ta...
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Halstead's scratch began experiencing issues this morning (Sunday 27 Sep). Job scheduling has been paused while engineers and the system vendor investigate the issue. We will have an update by tomorrow morning (Monday 28 Sep) at 10:00 am.