Gilbreth
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The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have the latest CUDA driver and toolkit softwar...
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Gilbreth queue submission problems
We have received multiple user reports that Gilbreth cluster began experiencing issues with job submissions over the weekend. The problem manifests as an "Invalid account or account/partition combination specified" error message from sbatch...
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The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all clusters while this issue...
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The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 10:00pm EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. To avoid job losses for...
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Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage
On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Home and Applications Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Most of the research computing clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop) as well as some other minor systems will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 at 9:00am EST, for...
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The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have the operating system patched and a maintena...
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Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters
During Aug 17-20th, 2020, due to immediate security concerns, we will be changing community cluster access to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access to each cluster and will no longer support p...
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As of 12:30pm EDT all the clusters are back in production. If your job crashed during the outage, please resubmit it. We are currently experiencing an outage across the community clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WC...
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BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication in order to log in to them, effective mid-August 2020. Here are some comm...
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Community Clusters Transitioning to New Software Stack
As of 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, the Software Stack Transition on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Snyder, and Workbench clusters have been completed. If you have a login session (Thinlinc, Gateway, SSH, etc.) that was started before the...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I use the new modules? The new software stack is now the default (i.e. this is what you see when you...
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Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing in March, 2020. We are currently offering six 30-minute slots e...
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Unscheduled Home Directory Outage
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with intermittently slow home directories access around 2:30pm EDT. The issue has been traced to a high load on one of the filesystem's back-end se...
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) has reported an outage on the software license servers for ITaP Research Computing systems that are hosted by ECN. ITaP Research Computing cluster job scheduling is not affected by the outage, but licenses for soft...
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Running Jobs on Community Clusters While Data Depot is Unavailable
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems due to an ongoing filesystem verification. While we don't believe there is any danger of data loss, the filesystem verification will continu...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage on the clusters
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with connection to Data Depot filesystem around 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...
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Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing. We are currently o...
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Gilbreth will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior to...