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Outages and Maintenance

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, November 6, 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, November 6, 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...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Weber will have its operating system and application stack upgra...

  • Anvil Cluster Maintenance

    The Anvil system will be unavailable from Monday, October 21st at 7:00am to Tuesday, October 22nd at 6:00pm EDT, 2024 for scheduled maintenance. During the maintenance, we will perform cooling work for the system to integrate a new NSF funded AI res...

  • Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters

    Shortly before 9:00AM eastern time, many RCAC clusters experienced a power interruption which interrupted some work due to a campus power outage. UPDATE: Engineers have arrived on campus and found additional impacts from today's power interruption. S...

  • Bell Scratch Interruptions

    Starting around 3:00PM eastern time, Bell's scratch file system began to experience service interruptions and periods of unresponsiveness to user requests. These events were caused by faulty hardware and engineers have temporarily mitigated the probl...

  • Fortress Tape Availability Delayed

    The Fortress Archive will be receiving a hardware upgrade on its Tape Library on Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 9AM - 5PM. During this time, ingestion of new data will continue, but any tape transfers will the deferred until the library is back onli...

  • Unscheduled Bell Outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with the /scratch filesystem. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix for some files being unavailable. We will provide an update by 6pm.

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, Oct 2, 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 you m...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 8:00am - 3:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfe...

  • Unscheduled Fortress outage

    Fortress began experiencing issues with communications around 3:00AM. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 12:00PM.

  • Unscheduled Globus service outage

    The Globus connection began experiencing issues on Data Depot endpoint around 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Please use other data transfer methods introduced in the user guide. We will pr...

  • Weber VPN maintenance

    At 8:00am on Thursday September 19th, 2024, the Weber VPN (REED VPN) will be undergoing a software version change to address a bug that has been causing connectivity issues for some users. No action by users needs to be taken. While no downtime is an...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with the /scratch filesystem at around 5pm today. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will p...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, September 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, September 4, 2024 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any tran...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

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    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 28, 2024 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Negishi will have minor...

  • Unscheduled Scholar outage

    The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with adding new students from the courses onto the cluster. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. The cluster is functioning normally so all the active Scholar us...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Friday, August 16, 2024 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for maintenance ahead of the start of classes. The cluster will return to full production the same day by 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Scholar will switch over...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, August 7th, 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...