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  • Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage

    On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage

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    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 10:00pm EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. To avoid job losses for...

  • Scholar access outage

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    A large number of Scholar accounts have been accidentally removed during overnight processing. This manifests as "LDAP authorization check failed", or "Incorrect or Invalid username/password" and similar errors when trying to logi...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage

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    The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all clusters while this issue...

  • Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance

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    The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop clusters) will be unavailable Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT for Data Depot migration work. The clust...

  • [Cancelled] Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Friday, May 14, 2021 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Scholar will have the operating system patched and several software u...

  • Intermittent Access Failures on Data Depot

    As of Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience intermittent "permission denied" errors while trying to access their files on Data Depot. Errors may come and go, and may appear on both login and c...

  • Scheduling Paused on Multiple Clusters

    At about 4:00 pm today (Wednesday, 21 July, 2021) System Engineers found an issue with the schedulers on the Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters. Job scheduling has been paused while this is being investigated. Symptoms of this pro...

  • RCAC Whole-Floor Downtime and Power Work

    The majority of the Research Computing computational resources will be unavailable July 30, 2021 7:00am - August 1, 2021 12:00pm EDT for a whole-floor downtime due to electrical power work in MATH and POD data centers. Along with a required preven...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage on multiple clusters

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with mounting old Data Depot filesystem around 12:30am EDT. Multiple nodes are flagged offline by an automatic check, and bioinformatics application suite...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot and community clusters outage

    At about 9:30am EDT, Data Depot servers started experiencing a ramping high load. Coupled with an ongoing scaling issues with the metadata subsystem, this caused Data Depot to become increasingly unresponsive for both community clusters and network d...

  • Unscheduled Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting around 7:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been...

  • Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot servers began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting on Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 around 4:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and...

  • Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot began experiencing issues with intermittent high load on the Data Depot servers around 4:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to...

  • Research Computing Holiday Break

    Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable January 4, 2022 8:00am - January 5, 2022 6:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 at 6:00pm EST. During this time, Scholar will have the...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot outage

    As of 8:00pm EST on Friday, February 11th, 2022 the Data Depot filesystem outage has been resolved and scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Scholar, Workbench, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing i...

  • Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance

    The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Weber, and Workbench clusters) will be unavailable March 15, 2022 4:00pm - March 16, 2022 12:00pm EDT during Whole-Floor Data Depo...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot Slowdown on Community Clusters

    As of 9:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience slowness while trying to access Data Depot (including loading modules, starting applications or reading data) . The symptoms appear on both login and compute nodes. System engineers are act...

  • Unscheduled Scholar Gateway outage

    The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with its OnDemand Gateway around Sunday, October 16th, 2022 at 9:00pm EDT. The issue manifests as connection to gateway.scholar.purdue.edu timing out. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue with the...