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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 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 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...

  • Rice, Snyder, Hammer, Scholar Maintenance

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    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: Rice: desktop.rice.rcac.purdue.edu Hammer: desktop.hammer.rcac.purdue.edu Snyder: desktop.snyder.r...

  • Planned Scholar Maintenance

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    UPDATE: As of 11:45a, the Scholar cluster maintenance was completed. Cluster is back in service. The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning on Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to f...

  • 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, and anyone using one of the login nodes for these clusters may have had sessions freeze or seen dela...

  • Emergency Security Patching of RCAC Clusters

    Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgraded to a newer version during February 2, 2017 5:00pm - March 2, 2017 5:00pm EST. Unlike other cl...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, January 5th, 2017 at 5:00pm EST. This work is being done during the se...

  • Emergency Cluster Maintenance

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    The Carter Cluster was returned to production at 10:45pm on November 7. We apologize for this extended outage. Update: November 7, 2016 6:01pm Work on reinstalling the Carter nodes continues. All other systems have returned normal operations. We...

  • Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters

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    Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...

  • Degraded performance of several systems

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    We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...

  • ECN Services Outage

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for a short time. Some ECN services will be affected, including several software license servers for ITa...

  • POD Cluster Maintenance

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    Carter and Scholar are back online for use as of 6:25am, though they will be operating with many nodes still offline. Staff will be working through Wednesday to steadily increase the number of nodes available. This concludes the POD cluster mainten...