Outages and Maintenance
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Unscheduled data center outage
Several clusters have experienced network connectivity and/or power issues around 10:00am EDT. Engineers are working on assessing and analyzing the situation. Job scheduling on affected clusters has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown will have minor operating sy...
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Rice scheduling temporarily stopped
The Rice cluster is currently experiencing a vendor bug in its scratch filesystem. To prevent filesystem instability, job scheduling has been paused while engineers are diagnosing the issue. Currently running jobs will not be affected (only starting...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 22, 2019 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT for maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive system updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail unti...
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Github is currently offline and is not responding. Engineers are currently working on bringing Github back up. We will provide another update later today or as soon as it is back online.
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Once again, the first Thursday of the month, the Workbench cluster will be unavailable Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the cluster will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the serv...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
At approximately, 8:30am EDT, the Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters became unavailable due to a campus power outage. While power has been restored, engineers are currently working returning the clusters to service. Job scheduling has been paus...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive a major upgrade to the HPSS version. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress wil...
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Halstead Scratch Windows File Share Maintenance
The Samba services which allow Halstead scratch to be directly mapped as a Windows Network Drive will be restarted and unavailable Monday, March 25, 2019 from 7:00am - 8:00am EDT for a necessary maintenance and upgrade. During this time, Halstead wil...
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The EXRC system will be unavailable during the overnight hours from Friday, March 22nd, 2019 at 4:00pm EDT to Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT to allow for electrical power work in that section of the building. There will be no changes to EX...
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Gilbreth Cluster Weekly Early-Access Maintenance
The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, March 15th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Friday, March 15th, 2019 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Gilbreth will h...
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with Globus and HSI access around 2:30pm EDT on Sunday, March 10th, 2019. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working with the vendor to identify a fix. We will provide an update by...
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Home Filesystem / Slowdown / Login Issue on all Clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with logins and a general slowdown around 3:10pm EST. This has been identified as being due to an issue on the /home/ filesystem. Engineers are continuing to examine this and are working to alleviate the issue r...
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Fortress began experiencing issues around 11:15am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 4:00pm.
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Gilbreth Cluster Weekly Early-Access Maintenance
The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, March 1st, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have a variety of patches a...
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Starting at Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be retu...
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On Tuesday, February 26th, 2019, BrownGPU will start the process of joining our new dedicated GPU cluster, Gilbreth! This move will greatly expand the resources available to users of BrownGPU, and will allow us to better serve the growing community...
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Gilbreth Cluster Weekly Early-Access Maintenance
The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, February 22nd, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have a variety of patch...
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On Tuesday, February 19th, 2019, HalsteadGPU will start the process of joining our new dedicated GPU cluster, Gilbreth! This move will greatly expand the resources available to users of HalsteadGPU, and will allow us to better serve the growing comm...
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Unscheduled Brown and BrownGPU outage
The Brown and BrownGPU cluster began experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem around 8:00am 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...