Skip to main content
Have a request for an upcoming news/science story? Submit a Request

Negishi

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Unscheduled Cluster Outage

    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...

  • 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...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    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...

  • Multiple clusters outage

    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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Unscheduled Cluster Outage

    Update: As of 3:45pm, the Bell cluster has returned to production status. Scheduling is still paused on the Negishi cluster, and we will have an update by 5:00pm EDT The Bell and Negishi clusters began experiencing issues with power around 1:00pm EDT...

  • Cisco Network Troubleshooting

    Purdue IT network engineers will be troubleshooting the network connection on Negishi. During this time, the network will be failed over to a backup path, and then moved back to the primary upon conclusion of the work. Impact should be minimal. In t...

  • Data Depot degraded performance on RCAC clusters

    Users of Data Depot on RCAC clusters are currently experiencing significant performance degradation. The symptoms manifest as delays in listing or accessing files in /depot, significant lags in terminal sessions (especially if you have Data Depot in...

  • RCAC Support Updates

    • widget.news::news.updated:

    Hello, PurdueIT is replacing our ticketing system, Footprints, with a new product called Team Dynamix (TDX). Email to rcac-help@purdue.edu will begin to forward to the TDX environment effective Wednesday, July 12, 2023. You may notice a difference in...

  • 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:...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, June 21, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Negishi will have the opera...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, April 26, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, April 5, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs wh...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Any Slurm jobs wh...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Any Slurm jobs wh...