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Outages and Maintenance

  • Unscheduled network outage on Brown, Rice, Snyder and Hammer

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    The Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with scratch filesystems and network connectivity around 2:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused...

  • Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

    Each of the Firebox Virtual Servers will be rebooted to have minor updates applied at some point on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 within the range of 8:00am – 12:00pm EDT This work is only for routine first-Wednesday maintenance updates, and each system w...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 11, 2018 from 8:00am - 10:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which...

  • Old Halstead Scratch Retirement

    The old Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be retired July 9, 2018 8:00am - July 16, 2018 5:00pm EDT. This storage has not been the default scratch space on Halstead and HalsteadGPU since May 15, and its retirement will complete the pro...

  • Unscheduled Conte scratch outage

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    The Conte cluster began experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem around 10:45am 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 pr...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, July 5th, 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 returned t...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 27, 2018 from 8:00am – 5:00pm for partial physical relocation. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and also have a portion of the servers which support it physically relocate...

  • BrownGPU Maintenance

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    The BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, June 26th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, BrownGPU will have some minor configuration manage...

  • Scholar Rebuild

    The Scholar cluster for educational use has proven to be extremely useful as an in-class tool. As a result of this success, it is being rebuilt and expanded over the summer. The new Scholar will offer more and better resources for educational use a...

  • Hammer Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Hammer cluster will be taken down on Monday, June 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Hammer will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...

  • Rice Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    As of 2:55pm, engineers have completed the CentOS7 upgrade and maintenance and have returned the Rice cluster back to normal service. All queues have been enabled and jobs have resumed scheduling. Please review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) a...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Snyder cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 21st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Snyder will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Halstead cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Halstead will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect ap...

  • HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance

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    The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Because of concurrent work on the Halstead cluster, this is expected to be down two days, and HalsteadGPU will not return to ser...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, May 3rd, 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 returned to...

  • Monthly GitHub Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be co...

  • Data Depot Maintenance

    As of 12:15pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018, the Data Depot machines serving Windows, Mac, SMB/Samba and NFS clients have been upgraded and all Data Depot services have been returned to production. Users who were previously advised to connect to \\data...

  • BrownGPU Cluster Maintenance

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    The BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, BrownGPU will have minor operating system securit...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 19th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have minor operating system security pat...

  • Job Scheduling Issue on Clusters

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    As of Monday, April 16th, 2018 at 10:00am EDT, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are not properly scheduling new jobs due to a problem with the Moab scheduler. Existing jobs are unaffected. We are working with the vendor to address this and expect...