Outages and Maintenance
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Scheduled Bell Maintenance – May 18
Bell will be undergoing planned maintenance and a minor operating system upgrade on Monday, May 18. This work will also affect the Bell scratch filesystem. Maintenance work will start around 8:00 AM and should end by 5:00 PM Monday, May 18. A reserv...
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The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, May 6, 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 m...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers which reques...
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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.
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Globus issue affecting Purdue “Data Depot” endpoint
We are currently investigating problems with the Purdue Research Computing – Data Depot Globus endpoint that cause directory listings and transfers to time out with errors such as ExternalError.DirListingFailed.Timeout. Users may be unable to browse...
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Gilbreth Cluster Open OnDemand Maintenance (April 28)
The Open Ondemand service for Gilbreth will be unavailable from Tuesday, April 28 at 9:00am EDT, 2026 to Tuesday, April 28 at 5:00pm EDT, 2026. During the maintenance, RCAC team will perform a reconfiguration to the Open Ondemand dashboard for Gilbre...
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All Clusters & Services Restored
At approximately 9:40pm EDT Monday, April 27th, 2026, a campus-wide power outage due to weather impacted all research computing clusters and storage systems. Power has been restored, and engineers are currently bringing systems back online in an orde...
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RCAC Maintenance Complete – All Systems Available
The ongoing RCAC maintenance originally scheduled to conclude at 5:00 PM today (Thursday, April 23) has been extended. The new expected completion time is 9:00 PM tonight, Thursday, April 23. All RCAC systems and Research Network services will remain...
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Data Depot is up, but some operations may be slower than normal while recovery work continues
Data Depot is currently experiencing degraded performance. Service is available, but background recovery processes are still running and may slow access to Depot. Our team is continuing to monitor the system and work toward full restoration.
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Data Depot is currently unavailable
We are currently experiencing an unplanned outage affecting Data Depot. Engineers are actively working to restore service, but there is no ETA to share yet. We will provide updates as soon as more information is available.
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The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, April 1, 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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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 1, 2026 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfer...
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Negishi Cluster Filesystem Interruption (Resolved)
Between approximately 9:30 PM and 10:45 PM EDT on March 30, 2026, the Negishi home file system experienced issues that prevented users from successfully connecting to login nodes. Service was fully restored at 10:45 PM EDT, and login functionality ha...
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Temporary Impact to Data Depot Operations
We’re currently investigating an issue affecting IO operations to the Data Depot. Our monitoring has detected that the primary storage disks used for data writes are nearing capacity, which is causing IO failures for jobs writing to the Depot. To pre...
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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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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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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...