Scholar
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) has reported an outage on the software license servers for ITaP Research Computing systems that are hosted by ECN. ITaP Research Computing cluster job scheduling is not affected by the outage, but licenses for soft...
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Running Jobs on Community Clusters While Data Depot is Unavailable
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems due to an ongoing filesystem verification. While we don't believe there is any danger of data loss, the filesystem verification will continu...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage on the clusters
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with connection to Data Depot filesystem around 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Preventative Scholar Maintenance
In order to alleviate gradual degradation of performance on Scholar, all the front-end login nodes will be restarted shortly after midnight Sunday (Saturday night). This may be necessary on a weekly basis, although engineers continue to monitor these...
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Unscheduled Outage to Multiple Systems
Hammer, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, WSC Hadoop, and Data Depot began experiencing issues with networking around 10:00am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 1:00pm if the issue...
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As of 2:30 pm, engineers have completed maintenance and have returned the Scholar cluster back to normal service. Any PBS jobs that were running have been deleted, as Scholar’s primary batch scheduler has been switched from PBS/Torque to Slurm. Pleas...
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New Software Stack Available on Scholar
To expand the list of supported software on Scholar and to provide software updates at a faster pace, Research Computing is adopting a new software automation framework (Spack) that will replace our existing software stack. Applications built with Sp...
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Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm 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 an update by 9pm or earlier as...
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The Scholar cluster front-end login hosts will all be rebooted today between 6:00pm – 7:00pm EDT. We hope this, in conjunction with other minor software changes being made concurrently, will help address problems being seen by students using RStudio...
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Emergency Scholar scratch file system maintenance
Engineers are taking offline Scholar's scratch file system for emergency hardware maintenance Monday, August 12, 2019 from 5:00pm - 6:15pm EDT. Any jobs or applications that attempt to use the scratch file system during this time will either hang or...
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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 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...
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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...
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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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Emergency Scholar Cluster Maintenance
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...
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Critical maintenance of RStudio Server on Scholar
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....
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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...