Outages and Maintenance
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Power Outage Impacting Multiple Clusters — Recovery Underway
At approximately 6:00 AM EDT, a power outage impacted systems in the Math Data Center. Most services have now been restored. Due to the outage, some jobs on Gilbreth did not requeue automatically. Users should check the status of any jobs that were r...
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Negishi experiencing 2nd service disruption
We are again investigating an issue affecting Negishi. The system is currently unresponsive or unavailable for some users, including SSH access. We will provide an update when service is restored or as soon as we have additional information.
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Negishi experiencing service disruption
We are investigating an issue affecting Negishi. The system is currently unresponsive or unavailable for some users, including SSH access. We will provide an update when service is restored or as soon as we have additional information.
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As of 11:00am EDT, engineers have completed maintenance and have returned the Weber cluster back to normal service. Please report any issues to rcac-help@purdue.edu The Weber cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 18, 2026 from 8:00am - 5:00pm...
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Negishi Cluster Service Interruption
We are currently experiencing an unexpected outage affecting the Negishi cluster. We are actively working to restore service and will provide an update once the system is stable. Impact: Users are currently unable to access their home directories,...
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As part of the efforts to certify Purdue as a CMMC Level 2 compliant institution, authentication to Weber, ThinLlinc access, and data egress will change during a maintenance scheduled for 8 AM -12 PM on March 5th, 2026. ** How does this change impact...
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Due to prolonged software updates the Purdue Github services will be extending service unavailability today Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 3:00pm - 7:00pm EST (previously 3:00pm - 5:00pm) for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every mon...
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Scheduling paused on Gautschi CPU cluster due to cooling leak
We have identified a cooling leak in Gautschi cluster that impacts CPU nodes and are actively working to resolve the issue. **How does this impact you? ** We have paused job scheduling on the CPU nodes. You can continue to submit jobs to Gautschi nod...
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The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you...
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MATH Datacenter Cooling issue - Job scheduling paused on Anvil/Gautschi
The MATH datacenter started experiencing issues with cooling systems around 12pm. Job scheduling on the Anvil and Gautschi clusters was paused shortly after and scheduling resumed at 1:30pm.
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable March 4, 2026 8:00am - March 5, 2026 9:00am EST for an software upgrade. Fortress will be updated to HPSS 10.3. During this time, Fortress will receivea major upgrade to its software. This will include som...
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Data Depot Filesystem issue: Scheduling Resumed
An internal portion of the Data Depot filesystem is currently offline, as a result, all scheduling has been paused until this issue is resolved. Impact to you Attempts to read files that are on the affected storage may result in error messages Our IT...
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Gilbreth Remains Unavailable – Update Expected by 10:00 AM
The scheduled Math Data Center maintenance is complete. The Gilbreth cluster remains unavailable as we continue post‑maintenance work. The next update will be provided by 10:00 AM tomorrow (Friday), or sooner if available. We appreciate your patience...
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Unscheduled Data Depot Service Outage
RCAC’s Data Depot storage system is currently unavailable. Our team is actively investigating and working to restore service as quickly as possible. We will provide updates as the situation develops and once service is fully restored. We appreciate y...
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February 5 Maintenance – Math Data Center Upgrades and Service Impact
On Thursday, February 5, RCAC will perform planned maintenance in the MATH data center to support cooling upgrades and capacity improvements as part of the ongoing MATH datacenter renovation project. During this maintenance window, several clusters w...
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The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, February 4th 2026 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, February 4, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...
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Bell Cluster Open OnDemand Maintenance (February 3)
The Open Ondemand service for Bell will be unavailable from Tuesday, February 3 at 8:00am EDT, 2026 to Tuesday, February 3 at 5:00pm EDT, 2026. During the maintenance, RCAC team will perform a reconfiguration to the Open Ondemand dashboard for Bell w...
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We are currently investigating network performance issues affecting network traffic. Impact To You: At this time, you may notice latency or brief disruptions when accessing certain on-campus or external resources, especially during peak usage periods...
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Globus access to Depot degraded; slow Depot logins and Depot access on clusters
Users of Data Depot on RCAC clusters are currently experiencing degraded performance, and some Globus transfers to and from Depot are failing or running slowly. In addition, some users may see slow Globus logins or be temporarily unable to log in to...