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Conte

  • Unscheduled Storage Outage

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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...

  • Math Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • 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...

  • Cluster Maintenance - Conte

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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...

  • 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 Home Filesystem Outage

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    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...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Conte

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    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...

  • Unscheduled Outage on Conte

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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...

  • ECN Service Interruption

    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...

  • Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Security updates for Conte and Radon scratch

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    Conte scratch has returned to full production as of approximately 2:15 pm. Update: February 26, 2015 1:20pm Radon scratch has returned to full production as of approximately 10:30 am. The work on Conte scratch is progressing as planned. Original mes...

  • 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...

  • Important operating system updates - Community Clusters

    On the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015, Carter, Conte, Hansen, Peregrine1, Radon, and Rossmann login servers will be rebooted to apply an important Red Hat Linux operating system update. Additionally, during this time scratch storage servers w...

  • Unscheduled Outage to Conte Scratch

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    Update 2 Storage engineers have brought Conte scratch back to full production. Job scheduling on Conte has been restored as of approximately 2:20 pm on 1/21/2015. Any job that was actively writing to scratch while the filesystem was in a degraded sta...

  • ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) in coordination with Physical Facilities will be conducting a planned power outage in the MSEE building from 8am until noon on Saturday, January 10th, 2015. No one will be allowed to enter the building during this...

  • Diminished network connectivity to research computing resources

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    Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web site, Globus, Thinlinc, or other research computing resources may be impacted. To work around this iss...

  • Network Maintenance for Carter, Conte, and Hansen clusters

    The Carter and Conte clusters will be briefly unavailable on Monday, October 13, 2014 for upgrades to the clusters' respective network routers. This upgrade will significantly upgrade Conte and Carter's network connectivity, as part of ITaP's 2014 re...

  • LustreD (/scratch/conte) unavailable

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    UPDATE: LustreD has been returned to service and scheduling has been resumed as of about 4 pm Saturday, October 4th, 2014. The LustreD filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, has become unavailable as of about 10:55 am Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Sys...