Gilbreth
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Today, RCAC user management systems sent incorrect email messages to many faculty partners and their resource managers. Please ignore any recent email about expirations or removals. You may verify who has access to your resources through our site www...
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Power outage after thunderstorm
A power outage affected our datacenters at approx 3:15pm. It appears cluster services are restored, however access and authentication may be slowed while we work to get other core infrastructure back online. OoD and desktop of Negishi and gilbreth ma...
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Resources down due to power event
Update 3:40PM, EDT: All systems have been returned to full service and queues are accepting new jobs. Update: 3:00PM, EDT: Systems returning but queues are still paused on all clusters except for Bell and Hammer. Some clusters are waiting for full co...
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Account Provisioning and Access Issues
We’re currently seeing some delays with account provisioning and access for RCAC systems. The issue stems from upstream systems outside of our direct control. Please report any access issues to us as soon as you encounter them so we can assist and tr...
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RCAC systems are experiencing networking related issues that impact access to some destinations on the Internet. We are actively monitoring the situation and working to resolve the disruptions as quickly as possible. During this time, you may encount...
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At around 10:45am EDT, Gilbreth scheduling was paused in order to reduce thermal load while emergency plumbing work is performed on the cooling loop that serves the Gilbreth cluster. Login access to Gilbreth remains available for file access and jobs...
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Unscheduled Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth outage
At around 1:30 PM, Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth began to exhibit exessively high temperatures. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update by 8:00 PM.
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Marina License Server Maintenance
Purdue IT's Marina license server will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 7:00am EDT to 9:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo an operating system upgrade. Licenses hosted on Marina will be una...
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The Gilbreth cluster is scheduled for maintenance and will be unavailable on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 at 8:00am EST through Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 at 5:00pm EST. During this maintenance, Gilbreth will have its software stack modernized. W...
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Gilbreth Maintenance Application Version Changes
As part of Gilbreth's upcoming maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Gilbreth. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and un...
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Gilbreth Maintenance Test Environment Available to Users
As part of next week's Gilbreth's maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Gilbreth. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and...
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RCAC License Server Maintaince
Update: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 6:12pm EST This is a reminder that the RCAC license server will be unavailable on today from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST for scheduled maintenance. Licenses hosted by RCAC will be unavailable for checkout for the...
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Unscheduled Storage Permissions Outage
Data Depot and other group-restricted spaces began experiencing issues with file permissions around 5pm. Users will notice a "permission denied" error when attempting to access spaces they normally would be able to read based on their unix...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on Monday, December 23rd, 2024, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters
Shortly before 9:00AM eastern time, many RCAC clusters experienced a power interruption which interrupted some work due to a campus power outage. UPDATE: Engineers have arrived on campus and found additional impacts from today's power interruption. S...
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In-person Coffee-Hour Consultation Location Change
Our in-person consulting hours (a.k.a. "coffee hour") location will be changing effectively immediately. RCAC staff have offered in-person consulting at the Convergence Center on campus downstairs in the lobby (and/or cafe area) for more th...
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Unexpected Gilbreth scratch outage
As of Monday, April 8 at 7am, Gilbreth has returned to service. If you experiene any lingering issues that may be related to this, please contact rcac-help@purdue.edu. On Sunday, April 7 2024 at 1:30pm, engineers became aware of a problem with Gilbr...
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Clusters Bell, Geddes and Gilbreth experiencing outages as of 4PM Tuesday March 12th. Engineers are working to resolve the problem. Access to these clusters is impacted and running jobs may have stopped. We will provide an update Tuesday March 12th a...
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The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, February 28th at 5:00pm. During this time, Gilbreth will have minor operat...