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Outages and Maintenance

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage

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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...

  • Fortress HPSS Upgrade

    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...

  • 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...

  • Emergency Scholar Maintenance

    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...

  • Unscheduled Rice scratch outage

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    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...

  • 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...

  • Unscheduled power outage affecting Brown and Hammer

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    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...

  • Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters

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    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...

  • WSC & WCERES Cluster Maintenance

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    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...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • 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...

  • Scheduling of Jobs Paused on Brown

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    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...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Halstead will have minor oper...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have minor op...

  • Scholar Two Day Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Scholar will have operating sy...

  • Rice Cluster Maintenance

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    The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operating syst...

  • Update - Extend Hammer Outage

    Work continues on bringing Hammer back to normal operation. Engineers have identified the source of the problem and are currently working to find a solution. We will provide another update by 3pm today.

  • Unscheduled Hammer outage - Closed

    Update: The issues with the Hammer cluster has been resolved and the cluster is back in production. This outage is closed. Original: The Hammer cluster began experiencing issues around 10:10am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are...

  • Emergency Github maintenance

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    Due to a critical vulnerability that was found, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 2:30pm EDT for an emergency maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be comple...