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  • Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance

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    The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop clusters) will be unavailable Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT for Data Depot migration work. The clust...

  • Intermittent Access Failures on Data Depot

    As of Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience intermittent "permission denied" errors while trying to access their files on Data Depot. Errors may come and go, and may appear on both login and c...

  • RCAC Whole-Floor Downtime and Power Work

    The majority of the Research Computing computational resources will be unavailable July 30, 2021 7:00am - August 1, 2021 12:00pm EDT for a whole-floor downtime due to electrical power work in MATH and POD data centers. Along with a required preven...

  • Unscheduled Brown, Hammer and Weber outage

    The Brown, Hammer, and Weber clusters began experiencing issues with cooling in the POD data center around 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is...

  • Unscheduled Brown and Hammer outage

    The Brown and Hammer cluster began experiencing issues with cooling in the POD data center around 5:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being add...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot and community clusters outage

    At about 9:30am EDT, Data Depot servers started experiencing a ramping high load. Coupled with an ongoing scaling issues with the metadata subsystem, this caused Data Depot to become increasingly unresponsive for both community clusters and network d...

  • Unscheduled Brown, Halstead, Hammer Gilbreth, and Workbench outage

    The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with home mounts around Thursday, September 16th, 2021 at 11:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job schedul...

  • Unscheduled Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, and Data Depot cluster began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting around 7:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been...

  • Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot servers began experiencing issues with Data Depot mounting on Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 around 4:40pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and...

  • Unscheduled Brown and Hammer outage

    The Brown and Hammer clusters began experiencing issues with cooling due to problems at the Physical Facilities' chiller plant around 4:40pm EDT. To avoid overheating, job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provid...

  • Unscheduled multiple clusters and Data Depot outage

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Workbench clusters and Data Depot began experiencing issues with intermittent high load on the Data Depot servers around 4:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to...

  • Research Computing Holiday Break

    Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...

  • Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance

    The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, Weber, and Workbench clusters) will be unavailable March 15, 2022 4:00pm - March 16, 2022 12:00pm EDT during Whole-Floor Data Depo...

  • Unscheduled Data Depot Slowdown on Community Clusters

    As of 9:00am EDT, users of community clusters may experience slowness while trying to access Data Depot (including loading modules, starting applications or reading data) . The symptoms appear on both login and compute nodes. System engineers are act...

  • Scheduling Paused on Brown and Hammer

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    Beginning around 2:00pm EDT, the ailing cooling systems for Brown and Hammer began experiencing issues. To reduce the thermal load on the systems, scheduling of new jobs has been paused on Brown and Hammer and will not be resumed until after tomorrow...

  • Brown, Hammer and Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Brown, Hammer, and Weber clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, June 14, 2022 from 6:00am - 11:59pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT. During this time, Physical F...

  • Scheduling Paused on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer

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    As of 11:30am EDT, the Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer clusters began experiencing issues with their filesystems which may cause login failures. Engineers are currently investigating the root cause, and in the interim, job scheduling has been p...

  • Complete! - New Hammer/CMS Home Directories

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    update 12152022: The home directory transition for the Hammer cluster is complete. If you did not previously transfer your home directory data, the old home server mounts are still mounted on the Hammer login nodes at /home-old. Additionally the co...

  • Research Computing Holiday Break

    Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...

  • BoilerKey Transition to Purdue Login

    Overnight on June 26-27th (Monday-Tuesday), all Purdue systems which use BoilerKey, including RCAC clusters and other systems, will switch to the new Purdue Login. For more information about this change, please see the following documentation: https:...