Outages and Maintenance
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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...
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Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm 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 by 9pm or earlier as...
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October 8, 2019 8:00am - October 9, 2019 12:00pm EDT, Fortress will be upgraded to a new version of HPSS. This will also require updated hsi and htar binaries for all users. If you are using a Research Computing system, such as one of the cluster...
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Update: Hammer Cluster Maintenace
Update: As of 9:45am, the Hammer cluster has been returned to normal service. Job queues have been enabled and job scheduling has been resumed. We apologize for the disruption of service. Please report any issues to rcac-help@purdue.edu. Original: Th...
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The Scholar cluster front-end login hosts will all be rebooted today between 6:00pm – 7:00pm EDT. We hope this, in conjunction with other minor software changes being made concurrently, will help address problems being seen by students using RStudio...
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Unscheduled Rice scratch outage
The Rice cluster began experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem around 4:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will prov...
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Emergency Scholar scratch file system maintenance
Engineers are taking offline Scholar's scratch file system for emergency hardware maintenance Monday, August 12, 2019 from 5:00pm - 6:15pm EDT. Any jobs or applications that attempt to use the scratch file system during this time will either hang or...
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Unscheduled power outage affecting Brown and Hammer
The Brown and Hammer clusters experienced a partial power outage overnight which caused them to operate at a reduced capacity. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this...
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Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with the home file system 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. We will provide a...
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WSC & WCERES Cluster Maintenance
The WCERES and WSC Hadoop cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday , August 6, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, WCERES and WSC H...
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The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 25th, 2019 at 12:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday , July 25, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Gilbreth will have minor ope...
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Hammer Community Cluster and CMS Storage Cluster Maintenance
The Hammer community cluster and CMS storage cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this tim...
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Scheduling of Jobs Paused on Brown
Starting at 2:45pm EDT, new jobs are not being scheduled on the Brown cluster in order to lighten the load. The current hot weather outside is overtaxing Brown cooling systems. Existing jobs will continue to run as planned. As soon as the cooling sys...
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The Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Snyder will have minor operat...