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Outages and Maintenance

  • EXRC Maintenance

    The EXRC system will be unavailable during the overnight hours from Friday, March 22nd, 2019 at 4:00pm EDT to Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT to allow for electrical power work in that section of the building. There will be no changes to EX...

  • 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...

  • Fortress Archive Upgrade

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    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive a major upgrade to the HPSS version. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress wil...

  • Campus power outage affecting multiple clusters

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    At approximately, 8:30am EDT, the Brown, Hammer, Rice, and Snyder clusters became unavailable due to a campus power outage. While power has been restored, engineers are currently working returning the clusters to service. Job scheduling has been paus...

  • Monthly Workbench maintenance

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    Once again, the first Thursday of the month, the Workbench cluster will be unavailable Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a planned maintenance. During this time, the cluster will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the serv...

  • Unscheduled Github outage

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    Github is currently offline and is not responding. Engineers are currently working on bringing Github back up. We will provide another update later today or as soon as it is back online.

  • Fortress Archive Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 22, 2019 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT for maintenance. During this time, Fortress will receive system updates. Any work which requests files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail unti...

  • Rice scheduling temporarily stopped

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    The Rice cluster is currently experiencing a vendor bug in its scratch filesystem. To prevent filesystem instability, job scheduling has been paused while engineers are diagnosing the issue. Currently running jobs will not be affected (only starting...

  • Brown Cluster Maintenance

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    The Brown cluster will be unavailable beginning at Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Monday, June 24th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Brown will have minor operating sy...

  • Unscheduled data center outage

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    Several clusters have experienced network connectivity and/or power issues around 10:00am EDT. Engineers are working on assessing and analyzing the situation. Job scheduling on affected clusters has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We...

  • Emergency Github maintenance

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    Due to a critical vulnerability that was found, the github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 2:30pm EDT for an emergency maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be comple...

  • Unscheduled Hammer outage - Closed

    Update: The issues with the Hammer cluster has been resolved and the cluster is back in production. This outage is closed. Original: The Hammer cluster began experiencing issues around 10:10am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are...

  • Update - Extend Hammer Outage

    Work continues on bringing Hammer back to normal operation. Engineers have identified the source of the problem and are currently working to find a solution. We will provide another update by 3pm today.

  • Rice Cluster Maintenance

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    The Rice cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Rice will have minor operating syst...

  • Scholar Two Day Maintenance

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    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable beginning Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Scholar will have operating sy...

  • Monthly Workbench Maintenance

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    The Workbench cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 11th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Workbench will have minor op...

  • Halstead Cluster Maintenance

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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...

  • Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    The Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT for a scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Snyder will have minor operat...

  • Scheduling of Jobs Paused on Brown

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    Starting at 2:45pm EDT, new jobs are not being scheduled on the Brown cluster in order to lighten the load. The current hot weather outside is overtaxing Brown cooling systems. Existing jobs will continue to run as planned. As soon as the cooling sys...

  • Hammer Community Cluster and CMS Storage Cluster Maintenance

    The Hammer community cluster and CMS storage cluster will be unavailable beginning at Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this tim...