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  • Degraded performance of several systems

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    We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...

  • Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot

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    UPDATE As of 5:30 pm. Friday, 5 August, 2016, we believe the problem affecting access to the Data Depot has been corrected. Thank you for your patience, and I apologize for the disruption this caused. Original Message Access to the Data Depot is curr...

  • Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot

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    As of 7:30 pm, all methods for connecting to Data Depot have been restored to working order. All connections with Samba (Network Drive mappings: datadepot.rcac.purdue.edu, samba.rcac.purdue.edu) are working normally again. More Rice and Snyder nodes...

  • Data Depot Maintenance

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    The Depot maintenance has been completed successfully. Depot is now back to normal operations. Other compute cluster outages running concurrent with this however, are still in progress. This maintenance window next week has been reduced as much as...

  • New Data Depot Servers for Windows / Mac / SMB Clients

    We would like to announce new servers for all Windows, Mac, or other SMB/CIFS users connecting to the Research Data Depot. These servers will offer far more reliable and faster access to the Data Depot than previously available. Before now, all of t...

  • Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot

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    The Depot filesystem checks have all completed cleanly and the Depot has been fully returned to normal operations. All queues on all clusters are scheduling new jobs again. Any existing jobs which had been waiting for Depot access may also resume....

  • Unscheduled Outage in Math Data Center

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    Most of the impact of this turned out to be to the Depot storage system, which has now been restored to normal operations. All the other affected systems are showing a return to normal operations now. Original Message: As of Thursday, February 4th,...

  • Unscheduled outage for Samba/Windows

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    Service was restored around 7:30pm today. Engineers changed the way Samba authenticates users to avoid this problem going forward. -- Service was restored around 10:30am today, but has since failed again. Engineers are working on the problem, and we...

  • Research Data Depot Security Updates

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    As of 3:15 pm the maintenance is complete and Research Data Depot is returned to full production. Original message: The storage servers powering the Research Data Depot will undergo maintenance on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST...

  • Maintenance for Data Depot

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    Update: the vendor has identified and confirmed a bug in the system's software. The engineers continue assessing the situation and are working on a plan of actions. The outage window is further extended. Update: The Depot maintenance ran into some pr...