Outages and Maintenance
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Halstead's scratch began experiencing issues at approximately 2:00 AM. Some users have reported that they are unable to read or index files within their personal scratch directories when logged in from certain front-ends. Job scheduling has been pa...
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with its disk cache subsystem being full on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 around 12:30am EDT. The problems manifest themselves as intermittent Error -1, Error -28, and No space left on device error m...
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The Weber cluster will be taken down for regular maintenance and upgrades beginning on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. During this time, Weber will have operating system updates applied. Users will be unable to log in or use Weber for inter...
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with its disk cache subsystem on Thursday, August 27th, 2020 around 9:00pm EDT. The problems manifest themselves as intermittent Error -1, Error -28, and No space left on device error messages in HS...
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The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 26, 2020 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 a maintena...
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with Error -1, Error -28, and No space left on device error messages in HSI and Globus around 9:00pm EDT on Tuesday, August 25th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working...
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Central Authentication Service (CAS) Outage
This morning, BoilerKey authentication for all community clusters and user facing services (such as the RCAC website, Rstudio Server) is unavailable due to a Central Authentication Service (CAS) outage. All the clusters are under normal operations an...
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The Research Computing GitHub service (github.rcac.purdue.edu) will be unavailable Thursday, August 20, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The service will return to full production by Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 5:00pm EDT....
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The Scholar cluster will be taken down for a short maintenance on Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 10:00am EDT. During this maintenance, we will apply patches to the RStudio Server on Scholar. All jobs which cannot complete before the start of the main...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have the operating system patched and a maintenance up...
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As of 12:30pm EDT all the clusters are back in production. If your job crashed during the outage, please resubmit it. We are currently experiencing an outage across the community clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WC...
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Halstead will have the operating system patched and a maintena...
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Unscheduled RCAC GitHub outage
The Research Computing GitHub service (github.rcac.purdue.edu) is currently down. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 12:00pm.
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail...
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The Scholar cluster will be taken down for regular inter-semester maintenance and upgrades starting at Monday, June 15th, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. All jobs which cannot complete before then will be held queued during this time, and no one will be able to...
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Unscheduled Brown scratch outage
The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 12:00pm 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 pr...
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Unscheduled Brown scratch outage
The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 12:30pm 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.
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Unscheduled data.rcac Transfer Node Outage
The data.rcac.purdue.edu data transfer node began experiencing issues and was taken down at 3:00pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue. Data may be transferred to/from other clusters using those clusters' login nodes, and for Data Depot...
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Unscheduled Home Directory Outage
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with intermittently slow home directories access around 2:30pm EDT. The issue has been traced to a high load on one of the filesystem's back-end se...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which requests file...