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Outages and Maintenance

  • Bell Cluster Maintenance

    The Bell cluster will be unavailable beginning Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 at 5:00pm. During this time, Bell will have a configuratio...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, December 6, 2023 from 8:00am - 11:30am EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...

  • Unscheduled Gilbreth outage

    Gilbreth is experiencing scheduling issues and jobs have been paused while RCAC works to resolve this issue. Running jobs have also been impacted, so you will need to resubmit your job if it was running when the job scheduling resumes. We will provid...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 at 5:00pm. During this time, Weber will be moved. No servic...

  • Unscheduled Fortress outage

    Fortress began experiencing issues with its tape library around 5:00PM. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Vendor support has been contacted and diagnostics have been uploaded. During this time tape access...

  • Bell Cluster partial outage (scratch fast storage tier)

    The Bell cluster scratch filesystem (fast tier) is experiencing issues, and that portion of sccratch has been turned off. Scratch is still available, but will be running at a slower speed until the situation is resolved. RCAC engineers are working wi...

  • Bell Cluster Maintenance

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    The Bell cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 at 5:00pm. During this time, Bell will have minor operating sy...

  • Multiple clusters outage

    Multiple clusters have been powered off in MATH G109 datacenter due to a water issue in the building. Affected systems are Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth and Negishi. We will provide an update by 5:00 PM today.

  • Fortress Tape Library Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive Tape Library will be unavailable Friday, October 13, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a Preventative maintenance. During this time, the Tape Library will have 2 new drives installed. Also, maintenance and software updates will...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 4, 2023 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 transf...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable beginning Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 at 5:00pm. During this time, Weber will have additio...

  • Scheduling Paused on Negish Cluster

    At about noon today (Tuesday 12 September), we discovered an issue with the scheduler database related to the power outage last Sunday. Scheduling on Negishi has been paused to allow for work on correcting the database problem. We will have an upda...

  • Unschedlued Anvil Outage

    Anvil is experiencing more issues related to the power outage yesterday in the Purdue Data Center. Users are currently unable to login via any method, SSH, Open On Demand, etc. Engineers have been dispatched to resolve the issue. This post will be up...

  • Unscheduled Cluster Outage

    Update: As of 3:45pm, the Bell cluster has returned to production status. Scheduling is still paused on the Negishi cluster, and we will have an update by 5:00pm EDT The Bell and Negishi clusters began experiencing issues with power around 1:00pm EDT...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, September 6, 2023 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...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 16, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, the following changes w...

  • Cisco Network Troubleshooting

    Purdue IT network engineers will be troubleshooting the network connection on Negishi. During this time, the network will be failed over to a backup path, and then moved back to the primary upon conclusion of the work. Impact should be minimal. In t...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, August 2, 2023 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 transfe...

  • Data Depot degraded performance on RCAC clusters

    Users of Data Depot on RCAC clusters are currently experiencing significant performance degradation. The symptoms manifest as delays in listing or accessing files in /depot, significant lags in terminal sessions (especially if you have Data Depot in...

  • Unscheduled Hammer OnDemand Outage

    Open OnDemand services for the Hammer cluster are currently offline. Engineers are investigating a boot disk failure on the server that hosts the gateway.hammer.rcac.purdue.edu virtual machine.