Rice
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Unscheduled Rice scratch outage
The Rice cluster began experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem around 4:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will prov...
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Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with the home file system around 12:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide a...
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The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operating syst...
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Rice scheduling temporarily stopped
The Rice cluster is currently experiencing a vendor bug in its scratch filesystem. To prevent filesystem instability, job scheduling has been paused while engineers are diagnosing the issue. Currently running jobs will not be affected (only starting...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
At approximately, 8:30am EDT, the Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters became unavailable due to a campus power outage. While power has been restored, engineers are currently working returning the clusters to service. Job scheduling has been paus...
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Home Filesystem / Slowdown / Login Issue on all Clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with logins and a general slowdown around 3:10pm EST. This has been identified as being due to an issue on the /home/ filesystem. Engineers are continuing to examine this and are working to alleviate the issue r...
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A power event around 8:40 am this morning affected all Research Computing resources, along with networking, and other resources around campus. Networking is offline making all resources inaccessible. Networking is slowly coming back online around 9:3...
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Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey
Starting Monday, February 11, 2019, login access to the community clusters from off-campus will require using Purdue's virtual private network (VPN). As with any use of the Purdue VPN, access to community clusters through Purdue’s VPN will require Bo...
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Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access
Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...
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Emergency Rice Cluster Maintenance
The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Rice will have critical security patche...
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The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operat...
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Unscheduled Rice scratch outage
The Rice cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch system around 4:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide...
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The Rice cluster is currently experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem. Engineers have identified the problem and are in the process of applying the fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an up...
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On Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 6:00am EDT, all Research Computing systems will be going offline to allow for major coordinated maintenance of central cooling systems across data centers and upgrades to the research networking core. This will affect...
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Unscheduled network outage on Brown, Rice, Snyder and Hammer
The Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with scratch filesystems and network connectivity around 2:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused...
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Rice Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
As of 2:55pm, engineers have completed the CentOS7 upgrade and maintenance and have returned the Rice cluster back to normal service. All queues have been enabled and jobs have resumed scheduling. Please review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) a...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Rice is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one vers...
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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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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 possible. Engineers are going to proceed with this restart of Thinlinc services at 4:00pm today. Unf...
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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...