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Outages and Maintenance

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

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    Conte is back in production, and jobs have started running. Thank you for your patience. ===== Because of additional work required to fix a configuration problem, this maintenance is running past the scheduled end time. We are extending the outage...

  • Emergency maintenance for GitHub

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    Patching has been completed and github.rcac.purdue.edu service is back in full production mode. Original message Tonight, Thursday, January 12, 2017, at 9:00pm – 10:00pm EST github.rcac.purdue.edu will be taken down for brief emergency maintenance. G...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

    The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 12:00pm. Original Message The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 at...

  • Carter Cluster Maintenance

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    The maintenance for Carter cluster was cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. The cluster has remained in service. Original Notice The Carter cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for emergen...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 5:00pm EST. This work is being done during the se...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 at 10:00am EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, January 4...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    The Halstead cluster is back online as of 4:50 PM after scheduled early-access maintenance. Unfortunately, queued jobs were lost due to complications during maintenance. If you had any jobs queued and waiting before maintenance started, you will need...

  • Unscheduled Outage for EXRC Cluster

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    Following the restoration of power to the affected building, the EXRC cluster has been returned to service on Thursday, December 22nd, 2016 at 2:45pm EST. Original article As of Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 at 12:00pm EST, EXRC is unavailable due to...

  • EXRC Scheduling Issue

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    UPDATE As of 7:50 pm, Wednesday, 14 December 2016, this issue is completely resolved. UPDATE As of about 6:00 pm another problem has been found in the EXRC scheduler code. We will update this news item once we have more details. Original Item The EXR...

  • Halstead Maintenance

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    The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday December 14, 2016 at 10:00am. Original message: The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 a...

  • Halstead Maintenance

    The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 1:00pm EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot Outage

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    Update: Engineers were able to isolate the problem and restart the necessary systems. The Data Depot should be available again. Halstead users should double check their running work. A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffe...

  • Job scheduling paused on Radon

    Job scheduling was paused on Radon between 6 pm and 7 pm this evening. Node monitoring processes marked most nodes offline around 6 pm, preventing new jobs from starting. System engineers cleared the fault in the node monitoring, and nodes came back...

  • Emergency Cluster Maintenance

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    The Carter Cluster was returned to production at 10:45pm on November 7. We apologize for this extended outage. Update: November 7, 2016 6:01pm Work on reinstalling the Carter nodes continues. All other systems have returned normal operations. We...

  • Emergency Depot Maintenance

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    The Data Depot has concluded successfully, and it been returned to normal operations as of Sunday, November 6th, 2016 at 1:30pm EST. Original Message: The Data Depot will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 20...

  • Emergency Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

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    The Firebox maintenance work concluded successfully as of Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 11:30pm EDT. Original Message: All Firebox Virtual Servers will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 2016 at 8:00am EDT....

  • EXRC Maintenance

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    The EXRC cluster has been returned to normal operations as of Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 at 8:10pm EDT. Please let us know if you experience any problems. Thank you. Original Message: The EXRC cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, Nove...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot Outage

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    This issue has been resolved. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly Carter, Snyder, and systems accessing Depot over NFS. Some sys...

  • GitHub issues - Internal Server Error and Web Interface Not Updating

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    The issue with the GitHub web interface was resolved late yesterday evening. The website is now reflecting changes made to git repositories as normal. Please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu if you see any continuing issues. The sporadic "Int...

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage

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    Measures taken within the first two hours of this problem seem to have resolved the issue. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly...