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...
Update message: After performing necessary repairs, Radon has been returned to service. -- Previous message: After consulting with vendor support, we...
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...
Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgra...
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...
Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 1...
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...
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for...
The underlying storage has been fixed, and all these clusters have been returned to normal operations as of 10:00pm EDT. As of Tuesday, June 7th, 201...
An issue was discovered shortly after Conte, Hansen, Hathi, and Radon were brought back online with the /group path on several front-ends and nodes. A...
The Isilon filesystem was restored to normal service and all affected clusters had it remounted as quickly as was sustainable by the filesystem. This...
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing staged patching and reboots of all of ECN's RedHat Linux workstations and servers to protect ag...
Most of the impact of this turned out to be to the Depot storage system, which has now been restored to normal operations. All the other affected sys...