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Outages and Maintenance

  • Hammer Cluster Maintenance 7/19

    The Hammer cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, July 19th at 8:00am for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by 5:00pm on Wednesday, July 19th. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past 8:00am 7...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, July 12, 2023 from 8:00am - 2:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). NOTE: This month the maintenance is delayed one week because of the Fourth of July holiday...

  • Unscheduled Hammer Slurm outage

    The Hammer cluster began experiencing issues with the Slurm scheduler around 5:00am, Thursday, July 6th. The Slurm scheduler is non-responsive, as a result, jobs will fail to schedule. Desktop and SSH access to Hammer login nodes is still available,...

  • Anvil Cluster Maintenance

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    The Anvil system will be unavailable Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 from 8:00am - Thursday, June 29th, 2023 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 at 8:00am E...

  • BoilerKey Transition to Purdue Login

    Overnight on June 26-27th (Monday-Tuesday), all Purdue systems which use BoilerKey, including RCAC clusters and other systems, will switch to the new Purdue Login. For more information about this change, please see the following documentation: https:...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, June 21, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Negishi will have the opera...

  • Unscheduled Geddes outage

    The Geddes cluster began experiencing issues overnight. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Workloads will be unavailable while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update by 12 PM.

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 7, 2023 from 8:00am - 2:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Maintenance

    The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, June 7, 2023 from 7:30am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Gilbreth will have the opera...

  • Data Depot partial outage (network drives)

    The Data Depot began experiencing issues with its network drive mapping capability around 1:30pm EDT. The symptoms manifest as users being unable to map their Data Depot spaces as network drives on their Windows, Mac or Linux laptops and workstation...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

    The Brown cluster will be unavailable for use on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from 7:30am – 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, Brown will have the operating system patched and an update done to the Slurm job scheduler. Any Slurm job w...

  • Geddes Maintenance

    The Geddes resource will be unavailable Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The resource will return to full production by Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 at 6:00pm EDT. Geddes will have its Kubernetes version upgraded and...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 3, 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 transfers...

  • Scheduling Paused on Brown

    Around 2:10p EST, the Brown cluster began experiencing issues with home directory mounts. Job scheduling on the Brown cluster has been paused while engineers investigate the issue. We will provide an update by 5pm.

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, April 26, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, April 5, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs wh...

  • Unscheduled Anvil outage

    The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 6:45pm EDT. Access to scratch directories may be slow or hang. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paus...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 29, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Weber will have the operati...

  • Unscheduled Scholar partial outage

    The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with its Thinlinc remote desktop (desktop.scholar.rcac.purdue.edu) and its RStudio Server (rstudio.scholar.rcac.purdue.edu) around 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...