Data Depot
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Retirement of Temporary Depot Server
The Data Depot server "datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu", which was set up as a temporary solution for Samba protocol mismatch between Data Depot and ECN computers, will be retired on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Kindly note that after our recent Data...
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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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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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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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Depot Issues for Windows 7 Clients
Research Computing had to make a recent change to the Samba servers which provide direct Windows access to the Research Data Depot in order to protect against a recently discovered security vulnerability. Unfortunately, we believe that change is also...
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Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you encounter any lingering issues please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu Original Message Some core...
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As of 8:48pm the issue has been resolved. Original message The Research Data Depot is experiencing a system-wide slow down. Engineers have isolated the systems which are at the core of this phenomenon and are taking steps to restore normal service....
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The Data Depot file system was sporadically available for 2 hours today. Some jobs running on the Community Clusters paused during the instability but have resumed. We expect no job loss to have occurred. This issue is now resolved.
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The Research Data Depot has been restored to service. A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly research clusters and users accessing the Depot over NFS...
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Connectivity issues to Research Data Depot
System monitoring has revealed intermittent issues connecting to the Research Data Depot on Thursday January 19. When this issue occurs, users will experience pauses when working in a UNIX shell on community cluster systems, or as interrupted or drop...
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Update: Engineers were able to isolate the problem and restart the necessary systems. The Data Depot should be available again. Halstead users should double check their running work. A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffe...
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The Data Depot has concluded successfully, and it been returned to normal operations as of Sunday, November 6th, 2016 at 1:30pm EST. Original Message: The Data Depot will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 20...
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This issue has been resolved. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly Carter, Snyder, and systems accessing Depot over NFS. Some sys...
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Measures taken within the first two hours of this problem seem to have resolved the issue. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly...
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Degraded performance of several systems
We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...
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Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot
UPDATE As of 5:30 pm. Friday, 5 August, 2016, we believe the problem affecting access to the Data Depot has been corrected. Thank you for your patience, and I apologize for the disruption this caused. Original Message Access to the Data Depot is curr...
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Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot
As of 7:30 pm, all methods for connecting to Data Depot have been restored to working order. All connections with Samba (Network Drive mappings: datadepot.rcac.purdue.edu, samba.rcac.purdue.edu) are working normally again. More Rice and Snyder nodes...
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The Depot maintenance has been completed successfully. Depot is now back to normal operations. Other compute cluster outages running concurrent with this however, are still in progress. This maintenance window next week has been reduced as much as...
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New Data Depot Servers for Windows / Mac / SMB Clients
We would like to announce new servers for all Windows, Mac, or other SMB/CIFS users connecting to the Research Data Depot. These servers will offer far more reliable and faster access to the Data Depot than previously available. Before now, all of t...
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Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot
The Depot filesystem checks have all completed cleanly and the Depot has been fully returned to normal operations. All queues on all clusters are scheduling new jobs again. Any existing jobs which had been waiting for Depot access may also resume....