Outages and Maintenance
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Unscheduled Conte scratch outage
The Conte cluster began experiencing issues with the scratch filesystem around 10:45am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will pr...
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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...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 27, 2018 from 8:00am – 5:00pm for partial physical relocation. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and also have a portion of the servers which support it physically relocate...
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The BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, June 26th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, BrownGPU will have some minor configuration manage...
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The Scholar cluster for educational use has proven to be extremely useful as an in-class tool. As a result of this success, it is being rebuilt and expanded over the summer. The new Scholar will offer more and better resources for educational use a...
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Hammer Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
The Hammer cluster will be taken down on Monday, June 4th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Hammer will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...
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Rice Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
As of 2:55pm, engineers have completed the CentOS7 upgrade and maintenance and have returned the Rice cluster back to normal service. All queues have been enabled and jobs have resumed scheduling. Please review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) a...
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Snyder Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
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...
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Halstead Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
The Halstead cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Halstead will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect ap...
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HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Because of concurrent work on the Halstead cluster, this is expected to be down two days, and HalsteadGPU will not return to ser...
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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...
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Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be co...
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As of 12:15pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018, the Data Depot machines serving Windows, Mac, SMB/Samba and NFS clients have been upgraded and all Data Depot services have been returned to production. Users who were previously advised to connect to \\data...
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The BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, BrownGPU will have minor operating system securit...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 19th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have minor operating system security pat...
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Job Scheduling Issue on Clusters
As of Monday, April 16th, 2018 at 10:00am EDT, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are not properly scheduling new jobs due to a problem with the Moab scheduler. Existing jobs are unaffected. We are working with the vendor to address this and expect...
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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...
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Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 8:00am - 11:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which...
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The Radon cluster has reached the end of its useful lifespan and will be decommissioned on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. Radon has served the Purdue research community for a great many years and has undergone radical changes during that time. However, du...