Gautschi
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Gautschi Scheduling Paused - Emergency maintenance on Gautschi, Tuesday, November 3
Gautschi is under emergency maintenance to repair and upgrade its Lustre scratch filesystem. The cluster’s job scheduler has been paused and the repair work will begin Tuesday morning. What’s happening: Our engineers identified a problem with the Gau...
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Gautschi Scheduler Changes Coming November 2: Shorter Waits, New Burst QOS
As Gautschi's utilization has ramped up, the RCAC team reached out to researchers to understand their workflows and collect feedback to guide the evolution of this resource. While the AI partition's near 100% utilization is a success by many metrics,...
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EMERGENCY POWER SHUTDOWN - ALL RCAC SYSTEMS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
Due to an issue with the new power distribution system, our contractor has had to shut down power to a number of RCAC systems that are connected to the new busway. We are bringing the affected systems down now as a precaution.
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Heads up: High voltage switching operation Tuesday, Oct. 13, 5-9 a.m.
Purdue Energy and Utilities is working on a high voltage switching operation on Tuesday (Oct. 13) from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. We do not expect any impact; however, any switching operation carries a slight risk of power outage.
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MATH Datacenter - Planned Power Outage: September 19–20, 2026
Planned Power Outage: September 19–20, 2026 As the renovation and capacity improvement project in the MATH datacenter moves into its final stages, a planned maintenance outage is required to continue bringing the newly installed power and cooling inf...
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Upcoming Maintenance Notice: MATH Datacenter Renovation Progress (Saturday, August 15, 2026)
As of 6:30PM on August 16th 2026, all clusters have been brought back online. As of 3:30PM on August 16th 2026, all clusters with the exception of Gilbreth have been brought back online. As the renovation and capacity improvement project in the MATH...
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Gautschi Scratch Service Impacting Users with Errors
We have noticed intermitent issues that is causing users to receive "Input/output error" on partial Gautschi login nodes (login00, login04 and login06). We are working with our vendors to troubleshoot and restore service on those nodes. We...
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Data Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. Engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers are paused to prevent further impact while we work to stabilize the service. We will provide another update as soon as more informati...
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Gautschi cluster maintenance – June 24, 2026
The Gautschi community cluster will undergo scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, beginning at 8:00am EDT to 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Gautschi will be unavailable for all batch and interactive work until maintenance is complete. To...
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Data Depot related service disruption
We’re investigating an issue affecting access to Data Depot services following a network change made at 11:00 AM ET. Users may see a brief outage or stalled connections while we work to restore normal service. Our teams are actively investigating, an...
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Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. The issue reoccurred after our earlier restoration, and engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gilbreth are paused to preven...
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Depot service disruption impacting schedulers
We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting Depot. The issue reoccurred after our earlier restoration, and engineers are actively investigating. Schedulers on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gilbreth remain paused to pre...
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Depot issue impacting multiple schedulers
We are currently experiencing an issue affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively investigating, and we will provide an update as soon as more information is available. Schedulers have been paused on Negishi, Rowdy, Gautschi, Bell, Scholar, and Gil...
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Purdue student attends GHC 25 with WHPC Scholarship
Purdue’s Women in High-Performance Computing (WHPC) group offers scholarships to support students who wish to travel to major computing conferences. Last fall, the group sponsored a graduate student to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2025,...
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Brief Data Depot disruption, community cluster scheduling paused and restored
RCAC experienced a disruption in service on the Data Depot storage system this evening, which required us to temporarily pause job scheduling on the community clusters. The issue has been resolved, schedulers have been resumed.
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Changes to Scratch Storage Policies
We are updating how we describe and manage scratch storage to keep our systems fast, reliable, and fair for everyone. Following good data practices makes scratch more performant and more useful for all users. By keeping master copies of important dat...
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Data Depot storage issue, cluster operations currently paused
We are investigating an issue with the Data Depot storage system that is impacting dependent services. Users may see failures connecting via Windows/Samba and jobs are affected because all clusters are currently paused while recovery work proceeds. O...
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Issues with Microsoft Authenticator Push Notifications
We’re aware that some users are having trouble seeing Microsoft Authenticator push prompts during sign-in. Authentication is still working, but the experience may be confusing or inconvenient. We wanted to share what’s going on and how you can work a...
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Important: Use Microsoft Authenticator to Access Purdue RCAC Resources Starting May 11, 2026
May 12 Update Some users are experiencing issues with push notifications; see current Microsoft Authenticator Trouble Announcement notice here. https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/7738 Beginning May 11, 2026, RCAC will move from Duo Mobile to Microsoft...
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Kernel Upgrade on Clusters Nodes
We are performing rolling reboots on all login and compute nodes for critical kernel upgrades. Nodes will reboot in stages, so resources remain available.