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Outages and Maintenance

  • MATH data center cooling outage

    The Math building data center began experience issues with its cooling system around 1:40pm EDT. To minimize thermal load on the cooling infrastructure, job scheduling has been paused and all idle compute nodes on Anvil, Bell, Geddes, Gilbreth, and...

  • Unscheduled Brown outage

    The Brown cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 11:20am 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 pr...

  • Brown New Home Directories

    Brown will be unavailable Thursday, September 1, 2022 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this maintenance, home directories on Brown will be separated from the legacy home filesystem shared amongst several other clusters as a...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    A section of the Bell cluster compute nodes began experiencing issues with power feed and cooling around 2:30pm EDT. Engineers have powered down affected nodes and are working to identify a fix. Some jobs may have ended up terminated or requeued. Jo...

  • Bell Degraded Capacity

    The Bell cluster continues to experience issues with Hardware. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issues and are working with vendors to schedule and perform repairs as quickly as possible. Job scheduling continues, but you may experience longer...

  • Scheduled Bell Maintenance

    The Bell cluster will be unavailable for use October 4, 2022 8:00am - October 5, 2022 11:59pm EDT while we perform scheduled maintenance to expand Bell's scratch storage capabilities and make upgrades to Bell's AMD GPU drivers and other system soft...

  • Geddes Cluster Maintenance

    We will unexpectedly have to power down the Geddes resource as part of the Bell maintenance today as engineers work on the cooling systems for the upcoming deployment of the Negishi cluster. The Geddes cluster will be unavailable October 4, 2022 8:0...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 5, 2022 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transf...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable Thursday, October 6, 2022 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, October 6th, 2022 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Weber will have the operati...

  • Bell Gateway Outage

    The Bell Gateway began experiencing issues following the Oct 4-6th Bell Maintenance. In particular, gateway applications have been observed to fail upon attempting to connect to the application after launching the job. Our engineers are investigating...

  • Weber Cluster Backup System Maintenance

    The power of Weber backup system will be shutdown from Friday, October 7th, 2022 at 7:00pm EDT to Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 5:30am EDT. During these times, daily snapshots on the system will still be taken. If you have any questions, please co...

  • Unscheduled Scholar Gateway outage

    The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with its OnDemand Gateway around Sunday, October 16th, 2022 at 9:00pm EDT. The issue manifests as connection to gateway.scholar.purdue.edu timing out. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue with the...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, November 2, 2022 from 8:00AM-12:00PM EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfe...

  • Scheduling Paused on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer

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    As of 11:30am EDT, the Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Hammer clusters began experiencing issues with their filesystems which may cause login failures. Engineers are currently investigating the root cause, and in the interim, job scheduling has been p...

  • Scheduling paused on multiple clusters

    The Bell, Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, and Scholar clusters began experiencing issues with their Data Depot mounts around 9:50am EST. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while...

  • Data Depot Degraded Performance

    The data depot began experiencing issues around 9:50am EST. While engineers work to diagnose and fix this issue, users may notice degraded performance in the form of sluggish I/O operations performed on Data Depot. This may also cause slow logins for...

  • Scheduled Gilbreth Upgrade

    Gilbreth will be unavailable due to maintenance from November 30, 2022 8:00am until December 1, 2022 5:00pm EST to allow for an expansion to Gilbreth’s resources. This maintenance will complete the remaining work previously announced in the Gilbreth...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable 8:00AM - 12:00PM December 7, 2022 for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers which request f...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its Lustre scratch filesystem around 12:30pm EST. 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 w...

  • Scholar Cluster Maintenance

    The Scholar cluster will be unavailable December 21, 2022 8:00am - December 22, 2022 5:00pm EST for scheduled maintenance between semesters. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 at 5:00pm EST. During this time...