Data Depot
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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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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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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....
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Unscheduled Outage in Math Data Center
Most of the impact of this turned out to be to the Depot storage system, which has now been restored to normal operations. All the other affected systems are showing a return to normal operations now. Original Message: As of Thursday, February 4th,...
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Unscheduled outage for Samba/Windows
Service was restored around 7:30pm today. Engineers changed the way Samba authenticates users to avoid this problem going forward. -- Service was restored around 10:30am today, but has since failed again. Engineers are working on the problem, and we...
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Research Data Depot Security Updates
As of 3:15 pm the maintenance is complete and Research Data Depot is returned to full production. Original message: The storage servers powering the Research Data Depot will undergo maintenance on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST...
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Update: the vendor has identified and confirmed a bug in the system's software. The engineers continue assessing the situation and are working on a plan of actions. The outage window is further extended. Update: The Depot maintenance ran into some pr...