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...
Due to a recently found vulnerability in the Linux Kernel (known as the Dirty-COW vulnerability), an emergency patch has been applied on the cluster n...
Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 1...
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack o...
We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage probl...
Update As of 5:50 pm, Tuesday, 16 Aug 2016, the Radon cluster has been returned to service and is fully operational. Thank you for your patience. Upda...