Outages and Maintenance
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Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance
During the regular first-Wednesday Firebox maintenance for November on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, each of the Firebox Virtual Servers will be briefly updated and rebooted within the range of 8:00am – 12:00pm EST. This maintenance will include fire...
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The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operat...
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Starting at Thursday, November 1st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, 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 return...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for regular updates and work on the high-availability switchover system. This will require a longer maintenance than typical monthly Fortress maintenance. A...
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Brown & BrownGPU Cluster Maintenance
The Brown and BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown and B...
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Starting at Thursday, October 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, 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 returne...
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The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, October 3, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for regular first Wednesday of the month planned maintenance. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull re...
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Software Licensing Maintenance
The system which handles a number of software licenses within Research Computing, charter.rcac.purdue.edu, will be ungoing maintenance Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 7:00am EDT. During this time, several commercial software packages, including the I...
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Unscheduled Rice scratch outage
The Rice cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch system 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 provide...
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Starting at Thursday, September 6th, 2018 at 1:00pm EDT, 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 retur...
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Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, September 5, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not...
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The Data Depot central servers lost their connection to Depot and all rebooted around 11:45am EDT. Servers are already returning, but engineers are watching the situation closely. Scheduling on clusters is being paused. Cluster jobs might be able...
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The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Friday, August 31, 2018 from 8:30am - 9:00am EDT for an emergency SSL certificate update. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull requests) may time out dur...
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The Hathi Hadoop cluster is being retired on Friday, August 31st, 2018. This was Purdue's first generally available Hadoop cluster, and it sparked further interest in other Hadoop systems. Dedicated Hadoop resources are available for research group...
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Critical maintenance of RStudio Server on Scholar
RStudio Server on the Scholar Cluster will be unavailable tonight, Monday 27 Aug, 2018, from 11:00 pm to approximately midnight. During this time, a fix will be implemented for a critical problem that causes the system to not accept web-based logins....
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The Data Workbench and WSC Hadoop cluster began experiencing issues with connectivity around 2:00pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 3 pm.
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Scratch unavailable on Snyder cluster
As of approximately 2:30pm EDT, the Snyder cluster is currently experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Attempts to access scratch will likely fail. Job scheduli...
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The Rice cluster is currently experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem. Engineers have identified the problem and are in the process of applying the fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an up...
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On Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 6:00am EDT, all Research Computing systems will be going offline to allow for major coordinated maintenance of central cooling systems across data centers and upgrades to the research networking core. This will affect...
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The Conte cluster will be retired at the planned end of life for this system on Wednesday, August 1, 2018. Please start archiving any data you may have there to the Fortress Archive now, or move it to other clusters or Depot for any ongoing work. Aft...