Halstead
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Unscheduled Home Directory Outage
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with intermittently slow home directories access around 2:30pm EDT. The issue has been traced to a high load on one of the filesystem's back-end se...
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) has reported an outage on the software license servers for ITaP Research Computing systems that are hosted by ECN. ITaP Research Computing cluster job scheduling is not affected by the outage, but licenses for soft...
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Running Jobs on Community Clusters While Data Depot is Unavailable
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems due to an ongoing filesystem verification. While we don't believe there is any danger of data loss, the filesystem verification will continu...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage on the clusters
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with connection to Data Depot filesystem around 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...
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Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing. We are currently o...
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Halstead will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, February 25th, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior...
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Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm EDT. 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 provide an update by 9pm or earlier as...
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Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with the home file system around 12:30pm EDT. 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 provide a...
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Halstead will have minor oper...
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Halstead Scratch Windows File Share Maintenance
The Samba services which allow Halstead scratch to be directly mapped as a Windows Network Drive will be restarted and unavailable Monday, March 25, 2019 from 7:00am - 8:00am EDT for a necessary maintenance and upgrade. During this time, Halstead wil...
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Home Filesystem / Slowdown / Login Issue on all Clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with logins and a general slowdown around 3:10pm EST. This has been identified as being due to an issue on the /home/ filesystem. Engineers are continuing to examine this and are working to alleviate the issue r...
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Halstead and Brown unscheduled outage
Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Brown, and BrownGPU went offline during a campus power event around 8:40 am this morning. Engineers are working to bring the compute nodes and the scratch system back online. Other systems are back online at this time. Job sche...
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Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey
Starting Monday, February 11, 2019, login access to the community clusters from off-campus will require using Purdue's virtual private network (VPN). As with any use of the Purdue VPN, access to community clusters through Purdue’s VPN will require Bo...
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Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access
Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...
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Emergency Halstead Cluster Maintenance
The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, January 24th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Halstead will have critical security...
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On Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 6:00am EDT, all Research Computing systems will be going offline to allow for major coordinated maintenance of central cooling systems across data centers and upgrades to the research networking core. This will affect...
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Old Halstead Scratch Retirement
The old Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be retired July 9, 2018 8:00am - July 16, 2018 5:00pm EDT. This storage has not been the default scratch space on Halstead and HalsteadGPU since May 15, and its retirement will complete the pro...
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Halstead Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
The Halstead cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Halstead will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect ap...
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Job Scheduling Issue on Clusters
As of Monday, April 16th, 2018 at 10:00am EDT, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are not properly scheduling new jobs due to a problem with the Moab scheduler. Existing jobs are unaffected. We are working with the vendor to address this and expect...