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Outages

  • Network Connectivity Issues

    RCAC systems are experiencing networking related issues that impact access to some destinations on the Internet. We are actively monitoring the situation and working to resolve the disruptions as quickly as possible. During this time, you may encount...

  • Unscheduled Anvil outage

    The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with permissions issues of project directories around noon. We are working on the fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. Update: the issue has been fixed by 2:20 pm today.

  • Power outage impacting multiple clusters

    Due to a campus-wide power outage, the Anvil, Negishi, Rowdy, and Scholar clusters experienced an unscheduled reboot at Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the impacted nodes and bringing services back online. If...

  • Gilbreth Scheduling Paused

    At around 10:45am EDT, Gilbreth scheduling was paused in order to reduce thermal load while emergency plumbing work is performed on the cooling loop that serves the Gilbreth cluster. Login access to Gilbreth remains available for file access and jobs...

  • Unscheduled Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth outage

    At around 1:30 PM, Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth began to exhibit exessively high temperatures. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update by 8:00 PM.

  • Unscheduled Bell Outage

    At around 11:00am, Bell's scratch filesystem began to show signs of a severe performance degradation. We have paused job scheduling on Bell while engineers investigate the slow down and work to brings things back up to speed. We will provide an upda...

  • Unscheduled Gautschi cluster outage

    The Gautschi cluster began experiencing issues with its power feed around 06:45am. 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 provide an...

  • Unscheduled Anvil Outage

    We have noticed a discrepancy in the allocation usage after the outage, so you may see incorrect usage for your allocation(s) from mybalance. Our engineers are woking on the fix. Job scheduling will NOT be impacted. We will provide an update by 5:00p...

  • Unscheduled Gautschi outage

    The Gautschi cluster began experiencing issues with internal fabrics around 02:30 2025-02-13. 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...

  • Unscheduled Fortress Outage

    The Fortress storage system began experiencing issues earlier today related to one of its adminstrative servers. This results in access being denied to users attempting to connect/authenticate; e.g., via hsi or htar command-line tools or the Globus t...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.