Data Depot
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Unscheduled Outage to Multiple Systems
Hammer, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, WSC Hadoop, and Data Depot began experiencing issues with networking around 10:00am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 1:00pm if the issue...
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Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm 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 an update by 9pm or earlier as...
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Box.com Research Lab Folders available for use
Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of Box.com Research Lab folders to facilitate easy data sharing and collaboration. Box Research Lab Folders are the ideal complement to the Research Data Depot, and will provide accessibility...
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A power event around 8:40 am this morning affected all Research Computing resources, along with networking, and other resources around campus. Networking is offline making all resources inaccessible. Networking is slowly coming back online around 9:3...
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The Data Depot central servers lost their connection to Depot and all rebooted around 11:45am EDT. Servers are already returning, but engineers are watching the situation closely. Scheduling on clusters is being paused. Cluster jobs might be able...
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Retirement of Temporary Depot Server
The Data Depot server "datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu", which was set up as a temporary solution for Samba protocol mismatch between Data Depot and ECN computers, will be retired on May 31, 2018 - December 31, 2018 . Kindly note that after our...
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As of 12:15pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018, the Data Depot machines serving Windows, Mac, SMB/Samba and NFS clients have been upgraded and all Data Depot services have been returned to production. Users who were previously advised to connect to \\data...
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Depot Access Issues from ECN Systems
Update Working closely with ECN, RCAC engineers have deployed a new CIFS server to mitigate any incompatibilities. ECN users affected by this issue should connect to their Depot space though \\[datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu](http://datadepot2.rcac.purdu...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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Depot Issues for Windows 7 Clients
Research Computing had to make a recent change to the Samba servers which provide direct Windows access to the Research Data Depot in order to protect against a recently discovered security vulnerability. Unfortunately, we believe that change is also...
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Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you encounter any lingering issues please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu Original Message Some core...
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As of 8:48pm the issue has been resolved. Original message The Research Data Depot is experiencing a system-wide slow down. Engineers have isolated the systems which are at the core of this phenomenon and are taking steps to restore normal service....
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The Data Depot file system was sporadically available for 2 hours today. Some jobs running on the Community Clusters paused during the instability but have resumed. We expect no job loss to have occurred. This issue is now resolved.
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The Research Data Depot has been restored to service. A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly research clusters and users accessing the Depot over NFS...
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Connectivity issues to Research Data Depot
System monitoring has revealed intermittent issues connecting to the Research Data Depot on Thursday January 19. When this issue occurs, users will experience pauses when working in a UNIX shell on community cluster systems, or as interrupted or drop...
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Update: Engineers were able to isolate the problem and restart the necessary systems. The Data Depot should be available again. Halstead users should double check their running work. A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffe...
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The Data Depot has concluded successfully, and it been returned to normal operations as of Sunday, November 6th, 2016 at 1:30pm EST. Original Message: The Data Depot will be taken down for emergency maintenance beginning at Saturday, November 5th, 20...
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This issue has been resolved. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly Carter, Snyder, and systems accessing Depot over NFS. Some sys...
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Measures taken within the first two hours of this problem seem to have resolved the issue. Original Message: A portion of the systems serving the Research Data Depot have suffered a failure. Some systems using Depot have been affected, particularly...