Outages and Maintenance
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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...
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Halstead and HalsteadGPU will be having a new scratch filesystem installed on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018. All access to these systems will be stopped at 5:00am EDT in order to allow for engineers to install the new hardware. Any jobs whose requested...
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Emergency Desktop.Rice Thinlinc Maintenance
The Thinlinc system serving the Rice cluster, desktop.rice.rcac.purdue.edu, has a critical misconfiguration which requires it be restarted as soon as possible. Engineers are going to proceed with this restart of Thinlinc services at 4:00pm today. Unf...
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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...
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New Windows Network Drive (SMB) Access
All Windows network drives (SMB/CIFS access) for scratch filesystems on all clusters and home directories have moved! You should change your mapped network drives to connect to: \\scratch.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu\my_cluster_name_here Or f...
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Thinlinc access to all clusters is moving! Effective immediately, please direct your Thinlinc client and/or browser for Thinlinc to: desktop.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu The old Thinlinc service on thinlinc.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired at...
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Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, March 7, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EST for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...
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Hathi Hadoop Cluster Maintenance
The Hathi Hadoop cluster will be down for regular maintenance and updates starting on Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 at 8:00am EST. The cluster will be returned to service by 5:00pm. During this time, Hathi will be upgraded to a new Hadoop base image,...
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Depot Access Issues from ECN Systems
Update Working closely with ECN, RCAC engineers have deployed a new CIFS server to mitigate any incompatibilities. ECN users affected by this issue should connect to their Depot space though \\[datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu](http://datadepot2.rcac.purdu...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice and Scholar clusters
The scratch filesystem serving Rice and Scholar is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Rice and Scholar has been paused while st...
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The EXRC resource will be unavailable today, 30 Jan 2018 starting at 2:30 pm. It will return to service approximately an hour later. During this time, its front-end server will receive security updates to its operating system. Thank you for your pat...
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Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters
The servers providing access to Data Depot from Brown, Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder suffered a partial failure. Many nodes in these clusters temporarily lost access to Depot. Jobs accessing files on Depot may have pa...
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The Fortress archive is unavailable due to a datacenter power issue. Datacenter facilities staff are currently investigating, however, at this time there is no estimate for a return to service.
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown will...
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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...
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The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 9:00pm. During this time, Conte will have maintena...
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Monthly HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for its regular monthly maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the system will receive minor u...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches...
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All Globus file transfer service at all sites is having a scheduled maintenance Saturday, December 9, 2017 from 11:00am - 3:00pm EST. Active file transfers will be suspended during this time and they will resume when the Globus service is restored -...
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The regular monthly maintenance on GitHub has been moved to Thursday, December 7, 2017 from 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST. This will be a normal minor upgrade, but is being done one day later than the normal schedule to avoid conflicting with other work on Wed...