Outages and Maintenance
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The Research Computing GitHub service will undergo maintenance beginning at 6:00PM on April 15, 2020. During this time the service will be unavailable. We expect the GitHub service to resume normal operation by 8:00PM.
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The Data Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 24, at 8:00am for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the cluster will have minor operating system security patches and upgrades applied. Workbench will be returned to servi...
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The Research Computing GitHub service will undergo emergency maintenance beginning at 11:00am on March 18, 2020 to address a storage issue. During this time the service will be unavailable. We expect the GitHub service to resume normal operation by...
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Gilbreth will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior to...
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Snyder will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, March 10th, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior to th...
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Brown will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior to this...
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Halstead will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, February 25th, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior...
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Preventative Scholar Maintenance
In order to alleviate gradual degradation of performance on Scholar, all the front-end login nodes will be restarted shortly after midnight Sunday (Saturday night). This may be necessary on a weekly basis, although engineers continue to monitor these...
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Rice will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, February 18th, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior to t...
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Unscheduled Outage to Multiple Systems
Hammer, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, WSC Hadoop, and Data Depot began experiencing issues with networking around 10:00am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 1:00pm if the issue...
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Fortress Archive Emergency Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Tuesday, February 11, 2020 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm EST for emergency maintenance. During this time, Fortress will be updated to correct a minor problem requiring immediate attention. Any work which requests files...
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Update: The Hammer Cluster maintenance is complete and the cluster is back in service. Original: The Hammer cluster will be unavailable beginning on Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 at 8:00am, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full pr...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive system updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or...
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The Weber cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 at 5:00pm. During this time, Weber will have additional hardw...
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The Gilbreth cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 11:30am EST. 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...
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Research Computing, along with the rest of Purdue, will be closed on Winter Break from December 21st until reopening after New Year's on January 2nd. We hope everyone enjoys their time away!
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As of 2:30 pm, engineers have completed maintenance and have returned the Scholar cluster back to normal service. Any PBS jobs that were running have been deleted, as Scholar’s primary batch scheduler has been switched from PBS/Torque to Slurm. Pleas...
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New Software Stack Available on Scholar
To expand the list of supported software on Scholar and to provide software updates at a faster pace, Research Computing is adopting a new software automation framework (Spack) that will replace our existing software stack. Applications built with Sp...
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Once again, the github.rcac server will be unavailable on October 16, 2019 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM for maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the server in production. Operations requir...
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The Fortress Archive began experiencing issues with an internal database around 4:30pm. Engineers are currently working to remove the affected database from the system to mitigate the issue. Fortress should return to normal function once this is remo...