February 5 Maintenance – Math Data Center Upgrades and Service Impact
On Wednesday, February 5, RCAC will perform planned maintenance in the MATH data center to support cooling upgrades and capacity improvements as part of the ongoing MATH datacenter renovation project. This renovation will allow Purdue to better support growing AI, data‑intensive, and HPC workloads for research. When completed, MATH will see a 32% increase in floor space, a 60% increase in usable power, and two-fold increase in cooling capacity.
During this maintenance window, several clusters will experience a temporary outage so that hardware can be safely powered down while facility work is performed:
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Gautschi, Gilbreth, Negishi, Bell, and Anvil cluster nodes will be powered down.
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The Gilbreth’s legacy V100 GPUs, that are well past their lifetime, will be decommissioned.
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Hammer (Math nodes) and Geddes: A subset of nodes will be powered down but the services will be available, unless communicated separately.
How does this maintenance impact you?
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Clusters listed in this message won’t be available to run jobs during the maintenance.
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Any jobs requesting a walltime which would take them past the start of the maintenance will not start and will remain in the queue until after the maintenance is completed.
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Users can continue to access their data.
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GenAI studio will remain available. This maintenance will position Purdue to support growing computational needs. Users should see long‑term benefits in system reliability and our ability to support future computing and AI resources.
If you have questions about how this outage will affect your work or need support, please contact rcac-help@purdue.edu.