Outages and Maintenance
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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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Starting at Thursday, March 8th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, Workbench will be taken down for regular maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned...
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Emergency Desktop.Rice Thinlinc Maintenance
The Thinlinc system serving the Rice cluster, desktop.rice.rcac.purdue.edu, has a critical misconfiguration which requires it be restarted as soon as possible. Engineers are going to proceed with this restart of Thinlinc services at 4:00pm today. Unf...
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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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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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The Radon cluster has reached the end of its useful lifespan and will be decommissioned on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. Radon has served the Purdue research community for a great many years and has undergone radical changes during that time. However, du...
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The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 8:00am - 11:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its battery backup system. Any work which...
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Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, April 4, 2018 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be...
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Starting at Thursday, April 5th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for regular maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned...
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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...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, April 19th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have minor operating system security pat...
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The BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, BrownGPU will have minor operating system securit...
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As of 12:15pm on Saturday, April 28, 2018, the Data Depot machines serving Windows, Mac, SMB/Samba and NFS clients have been upgraded and all Data Depot services have been returned to production. Users who were previously advised to connect to \\data...
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Once again, the first Wednesday of the month, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be co...
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Starting at Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, Workbench will be taken down for monthly maintenance and updates. During this time, you will be unable to log in, and any active sessions or programs will be terminated. Workbench will be returned to...
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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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HalsteadGPU Cluster Maintenance
The HalsteadGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, May 14th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. Because of concurrent work on the Halstead cluster, this is expected to be down two days, and HalsteadGPU will not return to ser...
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Snyder Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
The Snyder cluster will be taken down on Monday, May 21st, 2018 at 8:00am EDT for a planned upgrade to CentOS7. This process is expected to take two days, and Snyder will not return to service until 5:00pm on %enddate%. This upgrade may affect applic...
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Rice Cluster Maintenance Upgrade
As of 2:55pm, engineers have completed the CentOS7 upgrade and maintenance and have returned the Rice cluster back to normal service. All queues have been enabled and jobs have resumed scheduling. Please review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) a...