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Outages and Maintenance

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, September 6th, 2018 at 1:00pm 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 retur...

  • Unscheduled Rice scratch outage

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    The Rice cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch system around 4:30pm 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...

  • Software Licensing Maintenance

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    The system which handles a number of software licenses within Research Computing, charter.rcac.purdue.edu, will be ungoing maintenance Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 7:00am EDT. During this time, several commercial software packages, including the I...

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, October 3, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for regular first Wednesday of the month planned maintenance. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull re...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, October 4th, 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 returne...

  • Brown & BrownGPU Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown and BrownGPU cluster will be unavailable beginning at Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, October 11th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown and B...

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for regular updates and work on the high-availability switchover system. This will require a longer maintenance than typical monthly Fortress maintenance. A...

  • Workbench Monthly Maintenance

    Starting at Thursday, November 1st, 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 return...

  • Rice Cluster Maintenance

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    The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 8:00am EST, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operat...

  • Firebox Virtual Server Maintenance

    During the regular first-Wednesday Firebox maintenance for November on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, each of the Firebox Virtual Servers will be briefly updated and rebooted within the range of 8:00am – 12:00pm EST. This maintenance will include fire...

  • Github Monthly Maintenance

    The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, November 7, 2018 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EST for regular first Wednesday of the month planned maintenance. Operations requiring connection to the central server (e.g. new check-outs or pull r...

  • Unscheduled Fortress Archive Outage

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    The Fortress Archive was undergoing routine monthly maintenance at 8:00am EST when it suffered a failure of the internal database. Engineers are working with the vendor to repair the database and restore service as soon as possible. Until then, any a...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Weekly Early-Access Maintenance

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    The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, January 18th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have a variety of patche...

  • Emergency Brown & BrownGPU Clusters Maintenance

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    The Brown and BrownGPU clusters will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown and BrownGPU will ha...

  • Emergency Hammer Cluster Maintenance

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    The Hammer cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Hammer will have critical security patc...

  • Emergency Rice Cluster Maintenance

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    The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Rice will have critical security patche...

  • Emergency Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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    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...

  • Emergency Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, January 25th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Workbench will have critical security...

  • Gilbreth Cluster Weekly Early-Access Maintenance

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    The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, January 25th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have a variety of patche...

  • Emergency Scholar Cluster Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning at Saturday, January 26th, 2019 at 8:00am EST, for emergency maintenance. The cluster is expected to return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Scholar will have critical security p...