Article #575: Fortress tape library upgrade
Updated, 3/29/2013 During the datacenter migration the core server for the Fortress HPSS system experienced a failure with its boot device. Vendor eng...
Outages and Maintenance
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Article #576: Unscheduled Outage to LustreC
Update: ITaP engineers have corrected the issue affecting the LustreC filesystem. The system is back in production. Job scheduling on Carter, Hansen a...
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Article #571: Scheduled Maintenance
During the March 12 to March 14 maintenance window, the WinHPC cluster will be unavailable due to upgrades to the electrical service in the MATH data...
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Article #574: Samba maintenance outage
On Tuesday, 12 March 2013, the samba.rcac.purdue.edu host will be offline for about 2 hours between 8:00 and noon for maintenance. This will not affec...
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Article #572: Scratch Filesystem Problem
As of 9:00am, are seeing a problem with the LustreC scratch filesystem that serves Carter, Hansen, and Peregrine1. To prevent any more jobs from runn...
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Article #568: Chilled water outage in MATH
Update: As of about 11:00 am, the problem with the chilled water has been corrected, and scheduling has resumed on all RCAC clusters. Thank you for yo...
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Article #565: Chilled water outage in MATH
Campus chilled water serving the MATH data center is experiencing above-normal temperatures, and as a precaution, scheduling on the Coates, Rossmann,...
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Article #563: Unexpected Power Outage in MATH
Update: Noon, 1/8/13 The power issue in MATH has been resolved. Power has been restored to the nodes in the Coates-A subcluster affected by the outage...
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Article #559: Scheduled Maintenance - RCAC home directory upgrades
Update - 7:00pm, 1/4/2013: - All community clusters (Steele, Coates, Rossmann, Hansen, Carter, and Peregrine1) are back in production. Radon is curr...
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Article #561: Software Stack Changes during Scheduled Maintenance
During the New Years' weekend holiday, all ITaP HPC resources will be unavailable due to a scheduled upgrade of research home directories. While the s...
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Article #562: Scheduling paused on ITaP research clusters
During scheduled network maintenance on network equipment connecting storage to ITaP clusters, all scheduling will be paused from 4-6pm. Running jobs...
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Article #556: Scheduled Maintenance for Radon Cluster
UPDATE - 12:40 pm 27 Nov 2012: The update went smoothly, with no delays or problems, and Radon has returned to service as of 12:30 pm, 5 and a half ho...
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Article #548: Scheduled Maintenance - October 2012
UPDATE: 9 October, 2012 The Coates and Rossmann Clusters have both returned to production, and their maintenance is completed, as of 11:30 am, Tuesday...
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Article #547: ADIC Scalar 10k tape library maintenance
From 8:00am-12pm on Friday, September 7, 2012, the ADIC Scalar 10K library serving the Fortress archive will be unavailable while emergency preventati...
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Article #544: Unscheduled Power outage in Math Datacenter
Update: 10:00pm Tuesday As of 8:30pm Tuesday 21 August 2012, the LustreB filesystem has been returned to full service. Our storage engineers with assi...
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Article #538: Scheduled Maintenance - August 2012
In August 2012, some RCAC systems will be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service and chilled water upgr...
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Article #526: Scheduled Maintenance - May 2012
In May 2012, all RCAC systems will each be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service work in the Math build...
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Article #528: Community clusters, storage to be off line for upgrades and maintenance
Purdue’s Community Cluster Program supercomputers, related high-performance data storage and the Fortress archival data storage system will be down fo...
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Article #524: Unscheduled HPSS outage
Update - April 11, 2012 240pm At around 240pm, ITaP engineers have restored communications between the HPSS system and the tape library. Access to For...
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Article #523: Unscheduled Samba Outage
Update : 1:45pm As of As of 1:45pm this afternoon, systems staff have completed patching the samba servers used to access storage systems. You should...