Conte
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Security vulnerability patch impacts debugging
Due to a recently found vulnerability in the Linux Kernel (known as the Dirty-COW vulnerability), an emergency patch has been applied on the cluster nodes. This patch is necessary to avoid exploitation of the vulnerability. Unfortunately, the patch i...
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The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at September 27, 2016 7:00am - September 28, 2016 11:59pm EDT, for Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters. The cluster will return to partial production by midnight that day, but will remain at re...
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Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Conte has been returned to normal operations as well now. This concludes the home directory maintenance on all systems. Update: September 27, 2016 11:55pm All systems other than Conte have been successfully returned to normal operations with the ne...
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Software stack changes and upgrades
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack on the clusters. Changes will include updates to the default version of the Intel compiler and associ...
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Degraded performance of several systems
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...
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for a short time. Some ECN services will be affected, including several software license servers for ITa...
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The underlying storage has been fixed, and all these clusters have been returned to normal operations as of 10:00pm EDT. As of Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 at 4:10pm EDT, Conte, Hansen, Hathi, and Radon are unavailable due to a loss of Isilon home direct...
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An issue was discovered shortly after Conte, Hansen, Hathi, and Radon were brought back online with the /group path on several front-ends and nodes. Any scripts or jobs that rely on the /group path may have had issues immediately following return to...
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Conte has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 at 5:55am EDT. All upgrades were completed, though a small number of nodes which require more attention to be fully ready for jobs remain offline for now and will be return...
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Environment Modules System Upgrade
On Monday, May 9, 2016 the environment module system on Carter, Conte, Hansen, and Hathi will be upgraded to Lmod, bringing all compute clusters up to the same environment modules system. This new system has been in use on the Rice and Snyder cluster...
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New web-based quota monitoring tool
A new web-based quota monitoring tool is available to all Research Cluster and Data Depot users. This tool is a web equivalent of the myquota tool on the clusters. The tool allows you to monitor your quota usage just like myquota, but it also allows...
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ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing staged patching and reboots of all of ECN's RedHat Linux workstations and servers to protect against a serious vulnerability in glibc system library. A significant number of ECN services will be...
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The scheduler issue has been resolved, and Conte has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 at 9:30pm EST. Update: February 10, 2016 7:04pm There was a minor issue discovered with the newly upgraded scheduler which i...
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Unscheduled Outage in Math Data Center
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,...
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Unscheduled Home Filesystem Outage
As of 12:46, December 2, the home filesystem serving Conte, Hammer, Hansen, Hathi, Peregrine1, Radon, Rice, and Snyder was restored to normal operation. All queues have been re-enabled. As of Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 12:00pm EST, Conte, Hamm...
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Unscheduled scratch outage on Conte
The scratch filesystem has been restored to full service and all queues have been restarted. Original Message: The scratch filesystem serving Conte is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will bl...
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Update - 9:20pm Conte has been returned to full production as of 9:15pm. During the failure earlier today, the internal tracking of jobs within the scheduler on Conte was corrupted. Unfortunately, this resulted in all running and pending jobs being...
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Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...
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Software upgrades on Rice Cluster have been completed by 7:30pm. It is now open for access by early adopters. Please let us know if you see any issue with the cluster. Maintenance on Snyder, Rossmann, Hansen, Hammer, and Conte has been completed and...
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UPDATE As of 9:00 pm Tuesday, 14 April, 2015, the Conte cluster is back in full production mode. During the maintenance, all nodes were checked for reliability and system software installations were checked for consistency between nodes, and issues...