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  • Cluster Maintenance

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    Software upgrades on Rice Cluster have been completed by 7:30pm. It is now open for access by early adopters. Please let us know if you see any issue with the cluster. Maintenance on Snyder, Rossmann, Hansen, Hammer, and Conte has been completed and...

  • Cluster Maintenance

    The Hammer, Hathi, Radon, and Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, July 1, 2015 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 at 12:00pm EDT. The do...

  • ECN Service Interruption

    Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Hammer, and Snyder

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    The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder has been restored to normal operations, and all queues have been re-enabled. Original Message: The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder is partially unavailable. Both currently ru...

  • Unscheduled Home Filesystem Outage

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    As of 12:46, December 2, the home filesystem serving Conte, Hammer, Hansen, Hathi, Peregrine1, Radon, Rice, and Snyder was restored to normal operation. All queues have been re-enabled. As of Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 12:00pm EST, Conte, Hamm...

  • Rice and Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    As of 10:40pm, the Snyder cluster was returned to normal service in the POD. This concludes this maintenance. Update: February 5, 2016 8:54pm As of 8:25 pm, Friday, 5 Feb 2016, the Rice cluster maintenance has completed and the system is returning...

  • Unscheduled outage on Rice and Snyder

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    As of 9:15 PM, the Snyder and Rice clusters have been brought back into service after cooling was brought back online. Front-ends are operational and scheduling has been resumed. Original Message: At about 7:30 pm Wednesday, 17 February, 2016, the fr...

  • ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing staged patching and reboots of all of ECN's RedHat Linux workstations and servers to protect against a serious vulnerability in glibc system library. A significant number of ECN services will be...

  • Unscheduled Storage Outage

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    The Isilon filesystem was restored to normal service and all affected clusters had it remounted as quickly as was sustainable by the filesystem. This process was completed by Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 at 12:15am EDT. All clusters other than Conte (...

  • Network issues affecting Snyder cluster

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    The problem is now RESOLVED after the reboot of a router. ======= The network serving Snyder is currently experiencing issues. Attempts to log in to the cluster or access network filesystems will experience high latency and delays. Systems engineers...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot

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    As of 7:30 pm, all methods for connecting to Data Depot have been restored to working order. All connections with Samba (Network Drive mappings: datadepot.rcac.purdue.edu, samba.rcac.purdue.edu) are working normally again. More Rice and Snyder nodes...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage

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    Measures taken within the first two hours of this problem seem to have resolved the issue. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly...

  • 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...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Snyder, and Hammer

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    The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, 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 Hammer, Rice, and Snyder has been...

  • 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...

  • 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...