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  • Emergency Maintenance on Rice, Snyder, Hammer

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    As of 7:15pm, all queues on these clusters have resumed scheduling. Nodes will continue to be upgraded as they finish current jobs and become available. In the interim, the clusters will run in a degraded state, but will continue to start new jobs...

  • Scratch system failure on Rice, Snyder, Hammer

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    *** Update *** As of 7:00 pm, the problem on the scratch system has been corrected, and scheduling has resumed on all three affected clusters - Rice, Snyder, and Hammer. Update Storage engineers are working with the system vendor to evaluate a propos...

  • Data Depot Outage

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    Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you encounter any lingering issues please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu Original Message Some core...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 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...

  • Snyder Scratch Move & Maintenance

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    The Snyder scratch storage will be moving to a new storage system on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. There will not be any automatic transfer of files from your old scratch space to your new scratch space. You will find there are two new environment varia...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Snyder Upgrade to CentOS7

    In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Snyder is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS is built from t...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance Upgrade

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    The Snyder cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 21st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Snyder will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...

  • Unscheduled network outage on Brown, Rice, Snyder and Hammer

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    The Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with scratch filesystems and network connectivity around 2:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused...

  • All Systems Maintenance

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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...

  • Scratch unavailable on Snyder cluster

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    As of approximately 2:30pm EDT, the Snyder cluster is currently experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Attempts to access scratch will likely fail. Job scheduli...

  • Emergency Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    The Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, January 28th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Snyder will have critical security patch...

  • Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access

    Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...