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  • Unscheduled Depot Outage

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    A failure has occurred in the systems which serve Data Depot to the various research clusters. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all systems while this issue is being add...

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage

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    Access to Data Depot from the Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters has hung starting around Thursday, September 7th, 2017 at 1:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently working to restore service to these systems. Job scheduling h...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Scholar and Snyder

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    The scratch filesystem serving Rice, Scholar, and Snyder is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Rice, Scholar, and Snyder has be...

  • Unscheduled Scratch Outage on Rice, Snyder, Scholar

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    The scratch filesystem serving Rice, Scholar, and Snyder is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Rice, Scholar, and Snyder has bee...

  • 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 available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters

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    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...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice and Scholar clusters

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    The scratch filesystem serving Rice and Scholar is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Rice and Scholar has been paused while st...

  • 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...

  • 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_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu The old Thinlinc service on thinlinc.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired at...

  • 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. Thanks to diligent efforts all night and today by many teams across ITaP, all computational clusters h...

  • Scholar Rebuild

    The Scholar cluster for educational use has proven to be extremely useful as an in-class tool. As a result of this success, it is being rebuilt and expanded over the summer. The new Scholar will offer more and better resources for educational use a...

  • All Systems Maintenance

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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...

  • Critical maintenance of RStudio Server on Scholar

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    RStudio Server on the Scholar Cluster will be unavailable tonight, Monday 27 Aug, 2018, from 11:00 pm to approximately midnight. During this time, a fix will be implemented for a critical problem that causes the system to not accept web-based logins....

  • Emergency Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning at Saturday, January 26th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Scholar will have critical security p...

  • Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey

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    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...

  • Campus power outage

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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...

  • Home Filesystem / Slowdown / Login Issue on all Clusters

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    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...

  • Scholar features interactive HPC web portal

    An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand, developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resourc...

  • Scholar Two Day Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Scholar will have operating sy...

  • Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters

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    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...