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Outages and Maintenance

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...

  • Bell Cluster Maintenance

    The Bell cluster will be unavailable from Monday, January 27th, 2025 at 8:00am EST to Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 at 5:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance. During this time, RCAC staff will reorganize the data center space for Bell and upgrade its Lus...

  • Unscheduled Fortress Outage

    The Fortress storage system began experiencing issues earlier today related to one of its adminstrative servers. This results in access being denied to users attempting to connect/authenticate; e.g., via hsi or htar command-line tools or the Globus t...

  • Hammer Slurm Maintenance 1/22/2025

    We will be upgrading backend servers on Wednesday, January 22nd. These upgrades will require the Slurm scheduler to be idle and shut down while transferring to the new server. There will be a period of roughly 2 hours where the Slurm scheduler will b...

  • Weber VPN Maintenance

    From 5:00pm to 7:00pm on Tuesday, January 21st, 2025, the Weber VPN (REED VPN) will be undergoing a regular software upgrade. No actions need to be taken by users. While no cluster downtime is anticipated, users may experience their connection resett...

  • Unscheduled Negishi outage

    Update: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 at 3:02pm EST: The situation has been corrected and job scheduling is running again on Negishi. The Negishi cluster began experiencing issues with electrical power around 2:30 PM. RCAC engineers are working with P...

  • Unscheduled Anvil outage

    The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with electrical power around 2:30 PM EST. RCAC engineers are working with Purdue electricians to safely restore power. Anvil is operating at reduced capacity while a handful of nodes were shut down as a pre...

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, January 21st between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be modifying some of the Slurm configurations around CPU allocation on th...

  • Unscheduled Gautschi outage

    We are currently experiencing network connectivity problems with the Gautschi community cluster. Engineers are investigating and will provide an update by noon 1/18/2025. Update: This has been resolved.

  • Unscheduled Storage Permissions Outage

    Data Depot and other group-restricted spaces began experiencing issues with file permissions around 5pm. Users will notice a "permission denied" error when attempting to access spaces they normally would be able to read based on their unix...

  • Anvil Cluster Open Ondemand Maintenance - Jan 17

    Update: the maintenance has been postponed to Friday Januany 17, 2025 The Open Ondemand service for Anvil will be unavailable from Friday, January 17 at 9:00am EDT, 2025 to Friday, January 17 at 5:00pm EDT, 2025. During the maintenance, Anvil team wi...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot Outage

    Data Depot began experiencing issues with file permissions around 8pm this evening that has since resolved itself. Users will have noticed a "permission denied" error when attempted to access spaces they normally would be able to read based...

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, January 14th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be updating the network configurations for Gautschi's services.

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, January 7th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be upgrading the PDUs serving Gautschi's AI nodes.

  • Unscheduled Negishi Outage

    The Negishi Scratch file system began experiencing issues around 11am EST today (December 16). The issue manifests as a "No space left on device" warning on new file creation. Reading and writing existing files is not affected. Engineers ar...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

    The Scholar cluster is scheduled for maintenance and will be unavailable on Monday, December 16th, 2024 at 8:00am EST through Thursday, December 19th, 2024 at 5:00pm EST. During this maintenance, Scholar will receive hardware and software upgrades th...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...

  • Bell Cluster Downtime

    The Bell cluster will be unavailable on Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 between 8:00am and 12:00pm EDT for an out of band maintenance to improve scratch storage performance that has impacted some users recently. This work is scheduled to be done as so...