Negishi
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Power outage impacting multiple clusters
Due to a campus-wide power outage, the Anvil, Negishi, Rowdy, and Scholar clusters experienced an unscheduled reboot at Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the impacted nodes and bringing services back online. If...
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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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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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Update: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 at 3:02pm EST: The situation has been corrected and job scheduling is running again on Negishi. The Negishi cluster began experiencing issues with electrical power around 2:30 PM. RCAC engineers are working with P...
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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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The Negishi Scratch file system began experiencing issues around 11am EST today (December 16). The issue manifests as a "No space left on device" warning on new file creation. Reading and writing existing files is not affected. Engineers ar...
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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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The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 28, 2024 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Negishi will have minor...
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The Negishi cluster began experiencing issues with SLURM accounting around 8:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide...
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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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Anvil and Negishi cluster maintenance
The Anvil and Negishi clusters will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, March 12th 2024 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by Tuesday, March 12th at 5pm. During this time, Anvil and Negishi will have rack...
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The Negishi cluster began experiencing issues around 2PM, and engineers isolated the problem with Negishi. In order to resolve the issue, the scheduler had to be restarted. If you had jobs running on Negishi, please check them to ensure they are stil...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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The Negishi cluster will be unavailable beginning Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 at 8:00am for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 at 5:00pm. During this time, Negishi will have minor...
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Multiple clusters have been powered off in MATH G109 datacenter due to a water issue in the building. Affected systems are Bell, Brown, Geddes, Gilbreth and Negishi. We will provide an update by 5:00 PM today.
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Scheduling Paused on Negish Cluster
At about noon today (Tuesday 12 September), we discovered an issue with the scheduler database related to the power outage last Sunday. Scheduling on Negishi has been paused to allow for work on correcting the database problem. We will have an upda...
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Update to Coffee-Hour Consultation Schedule
A few announcements for the RCAC community regarding our regular Coffee-Hour Consultation services. Support staff will be unavailable both today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday) because of other scheduled events. Notably, tomorrow is our Annual Cyberi...