Article #943: Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Snyder, and Hammer
The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch...
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Article #948: Partial scratch outages on Rice, Snyder, Carter, Scholar and Hammer
The scratch filesystems serving Carter, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder started behaving abnormally this morning. This may have affected some jobs,...
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Article #954: Rice, Snyder, Hammer, Scholar Maintenance
The Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters have been returned to service. Please note that Thinlinc clients and web browser access can be found at...
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Article #971: Emergency Maintenance on Rice, Snyder, Hammer
As of 7:15pm, all queues on these clusters have resumed scheduling. Nodes will continue to be upgraded as they finish current jobs and become availab...
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Article #967: Clusters to complete transition to hierarchy modules
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...
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Article #982: Scratch system failure on Rice, Snyder, Hammer
*** Update *** As of 7:00 pm, the problem on the scratch system has been corrected, and scheduling has resumed on all three affected clusters - Rice,...
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Article #987: Data Depot Outage
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...
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Article #995: Removal of netcdf and hdf5 system-level library installations
Research Computing has begun removing several libraries installed at the system-level that should be provided by the module command. These libraries i...
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Article #992: Scratch Purge Policy Change
After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28,...
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Article #1039: Unscheduled Depot Outage
A failure has occurred in the systems which serve Data Depot to the various research clusters. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are wo...
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Article #1055: Unscheduled Depot Outage
Access to Data Depot from the Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters has hung starting around Thursday, September 7th, 2017...
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Article #1072: Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Scholar and Snyder
The scratch filesystem serving Rice, Scholar, and Snyder is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch...
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Article #1073: Unscheduled Scratch Outage on Rice, Snyder, Scholar
The scratch filesystem serving Rice, Scholar, and Snyder is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch...
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Article #1105: Holiday Break
Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be av...
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Article #1107: 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...
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Article #1137: Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice and Scholar clusters
The scratch filesystem serving Rice and Scholar is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will blo...
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Article #1146: 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 ne...
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Article #1147: New Thinlinc Servers
Thinlinc access to all clusters is moving! Effective immediately, please direct your Thinlinc client and/or browser for Thinlinc to: desktop.my_clust...
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Article #1150: Emergency Desktop.Rice Thinlinc Maintenance
The Thinlinc system serving the Rice cluster, desktop.rice.rcac.purdue.edu, has a critical misconfiguration which requires it be restarted as soon as...
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Article #1160: All Clusters Outage
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...