Radon
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Hathi, Radon, and Specialized Cluster Maintenance
Update message: After performing necessary repairs, Radon has been returned to service. -- Previous message: After consulting with vendor support, we have determined that Radon has experienced a failure in its network hardware. Parts and and a vendo...
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Unscheduled Outage in Math Data Center
At approximately 2:00pm EDT on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017, the Math building data center lost some power feeds which supply the Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Hathi, and Radon clusters. Scheduling on these has been paused until we can be sure power...
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Radon, Hathi, and WSC Hadoop Cluster Maintenance
The Hathi, Radon, and WSC Hadoop clusters will be unavailable beginning at Friday, November 3rd, 2017 at 5:00pm EDT, for scheduled electrical power maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, some of t...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters
The servers providing access to Data Depot from Brown, Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder suffered a partial failure. Many nodes in these clusters temporarily lost access to Depot. Jobs accessing files on Depot may have pa...
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New Windows Network Drive (SMB) Access
All Windows network drives (SMB/CIFS access) for scratch filesystems on all clusters and home directories have moved! You should change your mapped network drives to connect to: \\scratch.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu\my_cluster_name_here Or f...
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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. Thanks to diligent efforts all night and today by many teams across ITaP, all computational clusters h...
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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 research community for a great many years and has undergone radical changes during that time. However, du...