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  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

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    Starting at Wednesday, February 27th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be retu...

  • Campus power outage

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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...

  • Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey

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    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...

  • Unscheduled Workbench Outage

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    The Workbench cluster began experiencing issues with the server which manages its Thinlinc virtual desktop around 10:30pm EST. Currently, no new Thinlinc sessions will be able to be started. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are worki...

  • Emergency Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, January 25th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Workbench will have critical security...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, November 1st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be return...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, October 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returne...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, September 6th, 2018 at 1:00pm EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be retur...

  • Unscheduled Workbench outage

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    The Data Workbench and WSC Hadoop cluster began experiencing issues with connectivity around 2:00pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 3 pm.

  • 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...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, July 5th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned t...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned to...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, April 5th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for regular maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned...

  • 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...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    Starting at Thursday, March 8th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, Workbench will be taken down for regular maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned...

  • 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...

  • Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench system will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. Workbench will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have...