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Outages and Maintenance

  • 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...

  • 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...