Halstead
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Whole-Floor Cluster Maintenance
The majority of Research Computing computational resources (Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Scholar, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop clusters) will be unavailable Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 5:00pm EDT for Data Depot migration work. The clust...
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Unscheduled outage on multiple clusters
Due to problems with cooling system in the MATH datacenter, the CMS, Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, WCERES, and WSC Hadoop clusters began experiencing issues around 4:00pm EDT. Multiple front-end, compute and storage services are affected. Engineer...
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The Halstead cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem mount around 4:30pm EST. Users may see "Stale file handle" messages or be unable to navigate to their scratch directories. Engineers are currently diagnosing the iss...
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The Data Depot storage server began experiencing issues around 3:00pm EST on Thursday, February 4th, 2021. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all clusters while this issue...
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The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 10:00pm EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. To avoid job losses for...
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Access to RCAC Resources During ITaP Central Authentication Outage
On Sunday, December 27th, 2020, ITaP staff will perform major upgrades to the central authentication infrastructure. All applications that require logging in with BoilerKey or Career Account credentials will be unavailable Sunday, December 27, 2020 f...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Home and Applications Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters
Most of the research computing clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WCERES, Workbench, and WSC Hadoop) as well as some other minor systems will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 at 9:00am EST, for...
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Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS Clusters Maintenance
The Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the clusters will have their operating...
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The Halstead cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 1:15 pm, Sunday 11 Oct. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being address...
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The Halstead cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 9:00pm. 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 prov...
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Halstead's scratch began experiencing issues this morning (Sunday 27 Sep). Job scheduling has been paused while engineers and the system vendor investigate the issue. We will have an update by tomorrow morning (Monday 28 Sep) at 10:00 am.
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Halstead's scratch began experiencing issues at approximately 2:00 AM. Some users have reported that they are unable to read or index files within their personal scratch directories when logged in from certain front-ends. Job scheduling has been pa...
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Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters
During Aug 17-20th, 2020, due to immediate security concerns, we will be changing community cluster access to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access to each cluster and will no longer support p...
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As of 12:30pm EDT all the clusters are back in production. If your job crashed during the outage, please resubmit it. We are currently experiencing an outage across the community clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WC...
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BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication in order to log in to them, effective mid-August 2020. Here are some comm...
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Halstead will have the operating system patched and a maintena...
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Community Cluster Life Cycles Extended to 6 Years
For the last several years, we've heard your input around longer lifespans for community clusters, and now, thanks to the end of Moore's Law, it makes sense to begin adjusting to a longer lifespan. Following an announcement July 31 at the annual Comm...
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Community Clusters Transitioning to New Software Stack
As of 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, the Software Stack Transition on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Snyder, and Workbench clusters have been completed. If you have a login session (Thinlinc, Gateway, SSH, etc.) that was started before the...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I use the new modules? The new software stack is now the default (i.e. this is what you see when you...