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Conte

  • Conte Cluster System Upgrade

    On Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22-23, 2014, the Conte cluster will be unavailable for system upgrades. During this upgrade, Conte will receive several significant new capabilities: Infiniband drivers will be upgraded, enabling native Infiniband conne...

  • Emergency Chilled Water Maintenance

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    During early June, 2014, all RCAC systems housed in the Math Sciences building will be unavailable due to an emergency repair to the redundant chilled-water system serving the MATH datacenter. A major chilled water line has developed a leak, and must...

  • Conte Cluster LustreD filesystem upgraded to Lustre version 2.4.2

    During the scheduled maintenance the weekend of March 15-16, 2014, the Lustre filesystem for Conte ("lustreD") was upgraded to Lustre version 2.4.2, from version 2.1.5. This version upgrade was recommended by Data Direct Networks to address...

  • RCAC Fileserver Maintenance

    UPDATE - As of 7:45pm Sunday, March 16th, 2014, the fileserver maintenance has completed successfully, and cluster systems are back online. All Research Computing systems will be unavailable from 8:00am Saturday, 3/15/2014 through Sunday, 3/16/2014...

  • LustreD unavailable

    The Lustre D filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, has become unavailable as of about 8:00 pm Thursday 13 Feb, 2014. System engineers are working to bring the system back to 100% operation. Currently running jobs should be able to continue, but sch...

  • Lustre D filesystem unavailable

    Update - 2:25pm, 12/16/2013 The LustreD scratch filesystem has been returned to service and both the filesystem and scheduler appear to be working properly. Conte has been returned to normal production service as of 2:20pm. Update - 10:30am, 12/16/2...

  • Maintenance completed on LustreD filesystem

    UPDATE 6:00 pm 14 Dec 2013 As of 5:45 pm we believe this problem has been corrected and Conte has returned to normal operation. The LustreD filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, is experiencing some issues as of about 4:30 pm Saturday 14 Dec 2013. S...

  • Network Storage Outage

    All ITaP Research Computing systems are currently experiencing an issue with accessing network filesystems. A case has been opened with our vendor as ITaP engineers troubleshoot the issue. Cluster users may experience issues accessing files in /home,...

  • Most Major Clusters Stopped

    Nearly all major clusters operated by ITaP Research Computing are stopped due to issues with their storage systems relating to the power loss on the West Lafayette campus in the wake of the severe weather Sunday night. This includes: Conte, Carter,...