Halstead
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The Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be moving to a new storage system over Thursday, April 12, 2018. There will not be any automatic transfer of files from your old scratch space to your new scratch space. You will find there are two ne...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Halstead is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one...
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All Research Computing systems suffered an unplanned outage Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at 8:15pm EDT due to a widespread power failure in the area. Thanks to diligent efforts all night and today by many teams across ITaP, all computational clusters h...
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Halstead and HalsteadGPU will be having a new scratch filesystem installed on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018. All access to these systems will be stopped at 5:00am EDT in order to allow for engineers to install the new hardware. Any jobs whose requested...
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New Windows Network Drive (SMB) Access
All Windows network drives (SMB/CIFS access) for scratch filesystems on all clusters and home directories have moved! You should change your mapped network drives to connect to: \\scratch.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu\my_cluster_name_here Or f...
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Thinlinc access to all clusters is moving! Effective immediately, please direct your Thinlinc client and/or browser for Thinlinc to: desktop.my_cluster_name_here.rcac.purdue.edu The old Thinlinc service on thinlinc.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired at...
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Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters
The servers providing access to Data Depot from Brown, Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder suffered a partial failure. Many nodes in these clusters temporarily lost access to Depot. Jobs accessing files on Depot may have pa...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, September 14th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Halstead will have critical security patches...
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Access to Data Depot from the Halstead, HalsteadGPU, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters has hung starting around Thursday, September 7th, 2017 at 1:30pm EDT. Engineers are currently working to restore service to these systems. Job scheduling h...
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A failure has occurred in the systems which serve Data Depot to the various research clusters. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused on all systems while this issue is being add...
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Unscheduled outages on portions of clusters
Conte, Halstead, HalsteadGPU, and Hammer are back in full production. Job scheduling has been resumed on all clusters. Please let us know if you see any lingering issues at rcac-help@purdue.edu. UPDATE July 20, 2017 2:54pm Power has been restored to...
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Nodes have continued to gradually reboot into the new image as jobs complete. At this point, more than 80% of Halstead has completed this process, and we have not seen any issues in them doing so. This outage is closed. Update: May 25, 2017 5:00pm...
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Engineers have restored failed core servers back to a functional state. Data Depot is up and running as normal and job scheduling resumed. Should you encounter any lingering issues please let us know at rcac-help@purdue.edu Original Message Some core...
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 6th, 2017 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, April 6th, 2017 at 11:59pm EDT. During this time, Halstead will have the...
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Halstead nodes continue to come back online. While the cluster is operating normally, the total amount of available nodes is not yet at full capacity. We will update on the situation by 6:00pm. Update: Scheduling has been restarted and jobs are cur...
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Halstead MPI problem, scheduling paused
Following the security updates on Halstead, an issue was discovered that prevented multi-node MPI jobs from running properly. Scheduling on Halstead has been stopped, and systems engineers are working on fixing the issue. We will provide further stat...
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Emergency Security Patching of RCAC Clusters
Due to a recent security vulnerability, the Carter, Halstead, Hammer, Radon, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder clusters will have their operating system upgraded to a newer version during February 2, 2017 5:00pm - March 2, 2017 5:00pm EST. Unlike other cl...
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The maintenance work was completed successfully and Halstead has been returned to normal operations as of Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 12:00pm. Original Message The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 at...
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The Halstead cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 at 10:00am EST, for scheduled early-access maintenance (see Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies). The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, January 4...