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Outages and Maintenance

  • Coates and Rossmann cluster job scheduling temporarily suspended

    Job scheduling on the Coates and Rossmann Linux cluster was disabled from 7:15-10:20pm Saturday, October 30, due to a partial cooling loss in the MATH datacenter.

  • Cooling problems on coates-b, -c, and -e nodes

    Coates-b, -c, and -e nodes have been powered down due to a problem with a CDU (cooling distribution unit) that cools those systems. PBS jobs running on those nodes at the time have been requeued for execution after cooling has been restored and the...

  • Coates cluster network problems

    Network problems arose following Coates cluster maintenance Tuesday, January 5. ITaP staff are working to resolve these problems, but we are currently unable to say when Coates will be returned to production. Final Update: The problems which arose f...

  • RCAC system maintenance scheduled

    RCAC systems will be unavailable from 8am-6pm Friday, October 9, for electrical work in the MATH data center and system maintenance. The Coates Linux cluster will not be returned to service until Tuesday afternoon, October 13, so RCAC staff can cond...

  • Radon cluster unavailable

    The Radon Linux cluster will be unavailable Tuesday and Wednesday, August 25-26, for hardware upgrades and a conversion from Debian Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5). Since this upgrade changes the version of Linux used on the cluster, all...

  • RCAC system and data center maintenance

    RCAC systems including the DXUL/fortress archival storage system will be unavailable beginning at 8am Tuesday, 3/17, while system and MATH data center maintenance is performed. All systems are expected to be back in service by 6pm Thursday, 3/19, and...

  • Radon Linux cluster unavailable

    The Radon Linux cluster will be unavailable from 8am-5pm on Thursday, August 14, while its job scheduler is upgraded from PBSPro version 8.0 to version 9.1. A scheduling reservation has been installed and only those PBS jobs with walltimes less than...

  • HPC system maintenance planned for Wednesday thru Friday, August 15-17

    The RCAC HPC systems will be unavailable Wednesday through Friday, August 15-17, so that system maintenance can be performed. Systems involved include all RCAC Linux clusters, Condor, the SGI Altix, the IBM SP and Regattas, and the Sun F6800 cluster....

  • DXUL/Fortress maintenance planned for Wednesday, August 15

    The DXUL/Fortress archival storage system will be unavailable from 9am-5pm Wednesday, August 15, while system maintenance is performed. Please refer questions about this service interruption to rcac-help@purdue.edu.