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Outages and Maintenance

  • RCAC GitHub Maintenance

    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....

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Unscheduled Cluster Outage

    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...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Unscheduled RCAC GitHub outage

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    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.

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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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...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Unscheduled Brown scratch outage

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    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...

  • Unscheduled Brown scratch outage

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    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.

  • Unscheduled data.rcac Transfer Node Outage

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    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...

  • Unscheduled Home Directory Outage

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    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...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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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...

  • Unscheduled Brown scratch outage

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    The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 4:30pm 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. We will pro...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage

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    The Data Depot storage system began experiencing issues with No space left on device error messages around 10:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling on community clusters has been paus...

  • Unscheduled Weber outage

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    The Weber cluster began experiencing issues around 10:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 2:00pm.

  • ECN license server outage

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) has reported an outage on the software license servers for ITaP Research Computing systems that are hosted by ECN. ITaP Research Computing cluster job scheduling is not affected by the outage, but licenses for soft...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot windows network drive outage

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    Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems, but remained available through other means of access (such as Windows Network Drive). Around 9:00am EDT on Tuesday, April 21st, 2020, the D...

  • Running Jobs on Community Clusters While Data Depot is Unavailable

    Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems due to an ongoing filesystem verification. While we don't believe there is any danger of data loss, the filesystem verification will continu...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage on the clusters

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    The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with connection to Data Depot filesystem around 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...