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Outages and Maintenance

  • Security updates for Conte and Radon scratch

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    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...

  • Research Data Depot Security Updates

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    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...

  • 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...

  • Job scheduling problems on Radon Cluster

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    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...

  • Important Operating System Updates - Hathi Hadoop Cluster

    On the morning of Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Hathi login nodes will be rebooted to apply an important Red Hat Linux operating system update.

  • Unscheduled Outage to Conte Scratch

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    Update 2 Storage engineers have brought Conte scratch back to full production. Job scheduling on Conte has been restored as of approximately 2:20 pm on 1/21/2015. Any job that was actively writing to scratch while the filesystem was in a degraded sta...

  • ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) in coordination with Physical Facilities will be conducting a planned power outage in the MSEE building from 8am until noon on Saturday, January 10th, 2015. No one will be allowed to enter the building during this...

  • Rossmann Network Maintenance

    The Rossmann cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 for maintenance on the cluster's network interconnect, and for routine operating system patches. Any PBS jobs which request a walltime which would take them past 6:00am on Tuesday,...

  • Power issue at Calumet Campus

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    Power has been restored and the Peregrine 1 cluster has been restarted and is in full production mode The Calumet campus is experiencing a power issue that has rendered Peregrine1 unavailable. Contractors are on site working to restore service, but t...

  • Diminished network connectivity to research computing resources

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    Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web site, Globus, Thinlinc, or other research computing resources may be impacted. To work around this iss...

  • Maintenance for Data Depot

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    Update: the vendor has identified and confirmed a bug in the system's software. The engineers continue assessing the situation and are working on a plan of actions. The outage window is further extended. Update: The Depot maintenance ran into some pr...

  • Network Maintenance for Carter, Conte, and Hansen clusters

    The Carter and Conte clusters will be briefly unavailable on Monday, October 13, 2014 for upgrades to the clusters' respective network routers. This upgrade will significantly upgrade Conte and Carter's network connectivity, as part of ITaP's 2014 re...

  • Fortress HPSS Software Upgrade

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    Update The issues with the HPSS upgrade have been resolved with assistance from the vendor and the system is now in normal operations. Anyone using HSI or HTAR from their personal systems will need to upgrade their client to the latest (version 5) c...

  • LustreD (/scratch/conte) unavailable

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    UPDATE: LustreD has been returned to service and scheduling has been resumed as of about 4 pm Saturday, October 4th, 2014. The LustreD filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, has become unavailable as of about 10:55 am Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Sys...

  • Lustre Maintenance - 9/30/2014

    The Lustre Filesystem for Hansen and Carter will be briefly unavailable, beginning at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, September 30. At this time, ITaP engineers will perform repairs on one of the Lustre storage nodes. Access to scratch may be intermittent while...

  • Conte Cluster System Upgrade

    On Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22-23, 2014, the Conte cluster will be unavailable for system upgrades. During this upgrade, Conte will receive several significant new capabilities: Infiniband drivers will be upgraded, enabling native Infiniband conne...

  • Fortress Archive Unavailable

    UPDATE: Fortress was successfully returned to service as of 7:35 pm Wednesday, 15 July. As of 8:30am on July 15, 2014, the Fortress HPSS Archive is unavailable due to a hardware issue. Access to Fortress via HSI, HTAR, Globus, or CIFS is not availabl...

  • Emergency Chilled Water Maintenance

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    During early June, 2014, all RCAC systems housed in the Math Sciences building will be unavailable due to an emergency repair to the redundant chilled-water system serving the MATH datacenter. A major chilled water line has developed a leak, and must...

  • Hansen Cluster OS upgrade

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    During the maintenance scheduled for May 19-20 the Hansen cluster will be upgraded to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 6. Only those PBS jobs with walltimes short enough that they will finish prior to the beginning of this maintenance period are bei...

  • Carter Maintenance

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    The Carter cluster will be unavailable beginning at 8:00am on Monday, May 19, 2014, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by 5:00pm, Wednesday, May 21. During this time, Carter will receive operating system patches, an...