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Outages and Maintenance

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    Fortress will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. Fortress will return to full production by Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 at 5:00pm EST. During this time, Fortress will have the under...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, November 29th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches...

  • Emergency Hathi Maintenance

    The Emergency Hathi Maintenance has been concluded. Thank you for your patience. The Hathi cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, November 30th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches a...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 at 8:30am EST, for scheduled monthly maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 6th, 2017 at 10:30am EST. During this time, Fortre...

  • Monthly GitHub Maintenance

    The regular monthly maintenance on GitHub has been moved to Thursday, December 7, 2017 from 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST. This will be a normal minor upgrade, but is being done one day later than the normal schedule to avoid conflicting with other work on Wed...

  • Globus Service Maintenance

    All Globus file transfer service at all sites is having a scheduled maintenance Saturday, December 9, 2017 from 11:00am - 3:00pm EST. Active file transfers will be suspended during this time and they will resume when the Globus service is restored -...

  • Monthly HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance

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    The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for its regular monthly maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the system will receive minor u...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have a variety of patches...

  • Conte Cluster Maintenance

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    The Conte cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 at 9:00pm. During this time, Conte will have maintena...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown will...

  • Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench system will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. Workbench will return to full production by Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have...

  • Fortress Archive Unavailable

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    The Fortress archive is unavailable due to a datacenter power issue. Datacenter facilities staff are currently investigating, however, at this time there is no estimate for a return to service.

  • Unscheduled Depot Outage on Compute Clusters

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    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...

  • EXRC Maintenance

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    The EXRC resource will be unavailable today, 30 Jan 2018 starting at 2:30 pm. It will return to service approximately an hour later. During this time, its front-end server will receive security updates to its operating system. Thank you for your pat...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice and Scholar clusters

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    The scratch filesystem serving Rice and Scholar is currently unavailable. Both currently running jobs and attempts to access files in scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Rice and Scholar has been paused while st...

  • Depot Access Issues from ECN Systems

    Update Working closely with ECN, RCAC engineers have deployed a new CIFS server to mitigate any incompatibilities. ECN users affected by this issue should connect to their Depot space though \\[datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu](http://datadepot2.rcac.purdu...

  • Hathi Hadoop Cluster Maintenance

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    The Hathi Hadoop cluster will be down for regular maintenance and updates starting on Tuesday, February 6th, 2018 at 8:00am EST. The cluster will be returned to service by 5:00pm. During this time, Hathi will be upgraded to a new Hadoop base image,...

  • Monthly Github Maintenance

    Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, March 7, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EST for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...