Scholar
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The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 20, 2025 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Scholar will have the o...
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Today, RCAC user management systems sent incorrect email messages to many faculty partners and their resource managers. Please ignore any recent email about expirations or removals. You may verify who has access to your resources through our site www...
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Resources down due to power event
Update 3:40PM, EDT: All systems have been returned to full service and queues are accepting new jobs. Update: 3:00PM, EDT: Systems returning but queues are still paused on all clusters except for Bell and Hammer. Some clusters are waiting for full co...
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Account Provisioning and Access Issues
We’re currently seeing some delays with account provisioning and access for RCAC systems. The issue stems from upstream systems outside of our direct control. Please report any access issues to us as soon as you encounter them so we can assist and tr...
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RCAC systems are experiencing networking related issues that impact access to some destinations on the Internet. We are actively monitoring the situation and working to resolve the disruptions as quickly as possible. During this time, you may encount...
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Power outage impacting multiple clusters
Due to a campus-wide power outage, the Anvil, Negishi, Rowdy, and Scholar clusters experienced an unscheduled reboot at Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the impacted nodes and bringing services back online. If...
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Marina License Server Maintenance
Purdue IT's Marina license server will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 7:00am EDT to 9:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo an operating system upgrade. Licenses hosted on Marina will be una...
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RCAC License Server Maintaince
Update: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 6:12pm EST This is a reminder that the RCAC license server will be unavailable on today from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST for scheduled maintenance. Licenses hosted by RCAC will be unavailable for checkout for the...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on Monday, December 23rd, 2024, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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The Scholar cluster is scheduled for maintenance and will be unavailable on Monday, December 16th, 2024 at 8:00am EST through Thursday, December 19th, 2024 at 5:00pm EST. During this maintenance, Scholar will receive hardware and software upgrades th...
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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
Shortly before 9:00AM eastern time, many RCAC clusters experienced a power interruption which interrupted some work due to a campus power outage. UPDATE: Engineers have arrived on campus and found additional impacts from today's power interruption. S...
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The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with adding new students from the courses onto the cluster. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. The cluster is functioning normally so all the active Scholar us...
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The Scholar cluster will be unavailable Friday, August 16, 2024 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for maintenance ahead of the start of classes. The cluster will return to full production the same day by 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Scholar will switch over...
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In-person Coffee-Hour Consultation Location Change
Our in-person consulting hours (a.k.a. "coffee hour") location will be changing effectively immediately. RCAC staff have offered in-person consulting at the Convergence Center on campus downstairs in the lobby (and/or cafe area) for more th...
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The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, May 8th at 7pm. During this time, Scholar will have minor operating system secu...
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The Scholar custer down from approximately 4:30PM onwards on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Engineers have solved the issue and Scholar should return to service on Wednesday, March 27th at 8:30PM. If you submitted a job during this time frame, be sure to...
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The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, March 13th at 5pm. During this time, Scholar will have minor operating syste...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Potential Ticket Response Delays
As the holiday season approaches, we want to inform you about potential delays in our ticket response times until the end of this year. Our support team is currently working with reduced staff, impacting our ability to respond promptly. Additionally...