Outages and Maintenance
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As of 11:55 pm August 18, 2015, Fortress/HPSS has been brought back online. Storage engineers continue working on bringing upgraded Fortress up and deploying new software to all RCAC systems. Current estimate for return to service: 12:00 am August 1...
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Cluster Maintenance - Peregrine1
The Peregrine1 cluster will be unavailable beginning at August 17, 2015 8:00am - August 19, 2015 6:00pm EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, August 19th, 2015 at 6:00pm EDT. During this time, Pere...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Rossmann
UPDATE As of 8pm on August 15, 2015 the scratch filesystem serving Rossmann is back in full production. Original message: The scratch filesystem serving Rossmann is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in sc...
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Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...
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The Hammer, Hathi, Radon, and Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, July 1, 2015 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 at 12:00pm EDT. The do...
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Data Depot connectivity issues
ITaP engineers have identified issues causing intermittent failures on Carter. Engineers are currently tuning parameters on Depot system that have been identified as potential fixes to the issues. Access to Depot on Carter has been stable since tunin...
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Fortress Service Unavailable June 23
The Fortress data archiving services will be unavailable starting 8:00AM on 23 June, 2015 due to a scheduled maintenance. During this outage, our storage engineers will: Upgrade hardware, and Configure RAID on the internal servers. Users are reques...
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Rice job submission failing for some users
Update: The scheduling server has been rebooted and job submissions appear to be working normally again. Please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu if you see any further issues. Thanks again for your patience! Job submissions for at least some users...
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Software upgrades on Rice Cluster have been completed by 7:30pm. It is now open for access by early adopters. Please let us know if you see any issue with the cluster. Maintenance on Snyder, Rossmann, Hansen, Hammer, and Conte has been completed and...
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Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 5:30 pm Thursday, 11 June, 2015 and 8:00 am Friday 12 June 2015. In particular, for Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN...
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Fortress Samba service has been restored as of 10:15am on Monday, June 8th. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and thanks for your patience. Beginning Friday afternoon, the Fortress Samba mounts became unavailable due to an issue with...
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UPDATE As of 4:45 pm Tuesday, May 19, all the work noted below has been completed and both Hansen and Peregrine-1 have been returned to full service. Thanks for your patience. =-=-= The Hansen and Peregrine-1 clusters will be unavailable beginning at...
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UPDATE As of 9:00 pm Tuesday, 14 April, 2015, the Conte cluster is back in full production mode. During the maintenance, all nodes were checked for reliability and system software installations were checked for consistency between nodes, and issues...
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Hathi Hadoop cluster planned outage
The Hathi Hadoop cluster will be unavailable Monday, 13 April, 2015 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. During that time, the cluster hardware will be upgraded with new network interfaces. The cluster will go offline at 9:00 am, and we expect the work to be com...
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ROSSMANN IS ALIVE Rossmann Cluster is now back online. Kudos to the maintenance team and thanks for your patience! UPDATE 17 March, 2015 Our systems engineers are hard at work to bring Rossmann Cluster back to life. We shall e-mail everyone as soon a...
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The Radon cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, 17 March, 2015. On that day, Radon's job scheduler will be updated, and its network connection to its scratch system reconfigured. As of 5:30pm Tuesday, March 17, Radon cluster has been returned to se...
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Security updates for Conte and Radon scratch
Conte scratch has returned to full production as of approximately 2:15 pm. Update: February 26, 2015 1:20pm Radon scratch has returned to full production as of approximately 10:30 am. The work on Conte scratch is progressing as planned. Original mes...
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Research Data Depot Security Updates
As of 3:15 pm the maintenance is complete and Research Data Depot is returned to full production. Original message: The storage servers powering the Research Data Depot will undergo maintenance on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST...
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Important operating system updates - Community Clusters
On the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015, Carter, Conte, Hansen, Peregrine1, Radon, and Rossmann login servers will be rebooted to apply an important Red Hat Linux operating system update. Additionally, during this time scratch storage servers w...
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Job scheduling problems on Radon Cluster
UPDATE 4:00 pm Tuesday 3 February 2015 The problem referenced below has been diagnosed and corrected, and job scheduling should work as expected on the Radon cluster. We do not believe that running jobs were affected during this outage, only the abi...