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Outages and Maintenance

  • 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...

  • Anvil Maintenance

    The Anvil system will be unavailable Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 at 8:00am EDT will not start and will remain...

  • Unscheduled Gilbreth outage

    The Gilbreth cluster began experiencing issues with its scheduler spool filesystem around 10:30pm EDT on Saturday, March 18th, 2023. The problem manifests as an I/O error during new batch job submissions and in Open OnDemand gateway applications. Int...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 7:50pm EDT. File access operations (e.g. ls) may appear hanging. Logins to the Open OnDemand gateway (gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu) may appear sluggish or hanging as well....

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 15, 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 15th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...

  • Fortress Hardware Move and Software Upgrade

    Fortress Downtime and Upgrade March 15, 2023 6:00AM – March 17, 2023 5:00PM Fortress will be down Wednesday, March 15, 2023 through Friday, March 17, 2023. During that time, some hardware will be moved to another data center and most servers will be...

  • Globus services downtime on March 11, 2023

    Globus services will be globally unavailable for a period between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm US Central Time (11am-1pm Eastern) on Saturday, March 11th, 2023 due to planned maintenance that includes required database upgrades. During the downtime, the fol...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 12:55pm EST. File access operations (e.g. ls) may appear hanging. Logins to the Open OnDemand gateway ( gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu) may appear sluggish or hanging as wel...