Hammer
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Software upgrades on Rice Cluster have been completed by 7:30pm. It is now open for access by early adopters. Please let us know if you see any issue with the cluster. Maintenance on Snyder, Rossmann, Hansen, Hammer, and Conte has been completed and...
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The Hammer, Hathi, Radon, and Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, July 1, 2015 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 at 12:00pm EDT. The do...
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Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...
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October 22, 2015 9:15pm All services have been restored and Hammer is now in production. October 22, 2015 7:00pm Engineers continue to work through issues relating to the move. Another update will be sent at 9pm. Original The Hammer cluster will be...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Hammer, and Snyder
The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder has been restored to normal operations, and all queues have been re-enabled. Original Message: The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder is partially unavailable. Both currently ru...
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Unscheduled Home Filesystem Outage
As of 12:46, December 2, the home filesystem serving Conte, Hammer, Hansen, Hathi, Peregrine1, Radon, Rice, and Snyder was restored to normal operation. All queues have been re-enabled. As of Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 12:00pm EST, Conte, Hamm...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Hammer
The Hammer scratch filesystem has now returned to normal operations. Original Message: During the maintenance of the Rice and Snyder clusters this week, it became necessary to shut down the scratch filesystem which these clusters currently share with...
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ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing staged patching and reboots of all of ECN's RedHat Linux workstations and servers to protect against a serious vulnerability in glibc system library. A significant number of ECN services will be...
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The Isilon filesystem was restored to normal service and all affected clusters had it remounted as quickly as was sustainable by the filesystem. This process was completed by Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 at 12:15am EDT. All clusters other than Conte (...
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Carter and Scholar are back online for use as of 6:25am, though they will be operating with many nodes still offline. Staff will be working through Wednesday to steadily increase the number of nodes available. This concludes the POD cluster mainten...
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for a short time. Some ECN services will be affected, including several software license servers for ITa...
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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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Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...
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Emergency Security Patching of RCAC Clusters
Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgraded to a newer version during February 2, 2017 5:00pm - March 2, 2017 5:00pm EST. Unlike other cl...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Snyder, and Hammer
The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder 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 Hammer, Rice, and Snyder has been...
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Partial scratch outages on Rice, Snyder, Carter, Scholar and Hammer
The scratch filesystems serving Carter, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder started behaving abnormally this morning. This may have affected some jobs, and anyone using one of the login nodes for these clusters may have had sessions freeze or seen dela...
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Rice, Snyder, Hammer, Scholar Maintenance
The Hammer, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters have been returned to service. Please note that Thinlinc clients and web browser access can be found at: Rice: desktop.rice.rcac.purdue.edu Hammer: desktop.hammer.rcac.purdue.edu Snyder: desktop.snyder.r...
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Emergency Maintenance on Rice, Snyder, Hammer
As of 7:15pm, all queues on these clusters have resumed scheduling. Nodes will continue to be upgraded as they finish current jobs and become available. In the interim, the clusters will run in a degraded state, but will continue to start new jobs...
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Scratch system failure on Rice, Snyder, Hammer
*** Update *** As of 7:00 pm, the problem on the scratch system has been corrected, and scheduling has resumed on all three affected clusters - Rice, Snyder, and Hammer. Update Storage engineers are working with the system vendor to evaluate a propos...
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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...