Article #1136: Radon Cluster Retirement
The Radon cluster has reached the end of its useful lifespan and will be decommissioned on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. Radon has served the Purdue resear...
The Radon cluster has reached the end of its useful lifespan and will be decommissioned on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. Radon has served the Purdue resear...
All Research Computing systems suffered an unplanned outage Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at 8:15pm EDT due to a widespread power failure in the area. Th...
All Windows network drives (SMB/CIFS access) for scratch filesystems on all clusters and home directories have moved! You should change your mapped ne...
The servers providing access to Data Depot from Brown, Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder suffered a partial failure. Many...
Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be av...
The Hathi, Radon, and WSC Hadoop clusters will be unavailable beginning at Friday, November 3rd, 2017 at 5:00pm EDT, for scheduled electrical power ma...
At approximately 2:00pm EDT on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017, the Math building data center lost some power feeds which supply the Conte, Halstead, Hal...
After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28,...
Update message: After performing necessary repairs, Radon has been returned to service. -- Previous message: After consulting with vendor support, we...
Research Computing has begun removing several libraries installed at the system-level that should be provided by the module command. These libraries i...
Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you...
The transition to hierarchy modules has completed today, May 9th. If any of your job scripts still have old module names the module load will no longe...
Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgra...
Radon has been converted to hierarchical modules. Old style module load commands should still continue to function until the end of the Spring semeste...
Job scheduling was paused on Radon between 6 pm and 7 pm this evening. Node monitoring processes marked most nodes offline around 6 pm, preventing new...