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Outages and Maintenance

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, January 4, 2023 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transf...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, January 25, 2023 from 12:00am - 5:00pm EST for a scheduled EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Any Slurm jobs wh...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, February 1, 2023 from 12:00am - 11:59pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 at 11:59pm EST. Any Slur...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, February 1, 2023 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any trans...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, February 8, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Any Slurm j...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, February 15, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Any Slurm...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, February 22, 2023 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 at 12:00pm EST. Any Slu...

  • Unscheduled Anvil outage

    The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch and project file system around 10:00am EST. Access to scratch and project directories may be slow or hang. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working with the vendor to id...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 1, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Any Slurm jobs wh...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 8, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EST for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 5:00pm EST. Any Slurm jobs wh...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 12:55pm EST. File access operations (e.g. ls) may appear hanging. Logins to the Open OnDemand gateway ( gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu) may appear sluggish or hanging as wel...

  • Globus services downtime on March 11, 2023

    Globus services will be globally unavailable for a period between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm US Central Time (11am-1pm Eastern) on Saturday, March 11th, 2023 due to planned maintenance that includes required database upgrades. During the downtime, the fol...

  • Fortress Hardware Move and Software Upgrade

    Fortress Downtime and Upgrade March 15, 2023 6:00AM – March 17, 2023 5:00PM Fortress will be down Wednesday, March 15, 2023 through Friday, March 17, 2023. During that time, some hardware will be moved to another data center and most servers will be...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...

  • Unscheduled Bell outage

    The Bell cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 7:50pm EDT. File access operations (e.g. ls) may appear hanging. Logins to the Open OnDemand gateway (gateway.bell.rcac.purdue.edu) may appear sluggish or hanging as well....

  • Unscheduled Gilbreth outage

    The Gilbreth cluster began experiencing issues with its scheduler spool filesystem around 10:30pm EDT on Saturday, March 18th, 2023. The problem manifests as an I/O error during new batch job submissions and in Open OnDemand gateway applications. Int...

  • Anvil Maintenance

    The Anvil system will be unavailable Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 at 8:00am EDT will not start and will remain...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 22, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for a scheduled weekly EUP maintenance. The cluster will return to its early user operations mode by Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. Any Slurm jobs...

  • Unscheduled Scholar partial outage

    The Scholar cluster began experiencing issues with its Thinlinc remote desktop (desktop.scholar.rcac.purdue.edu) and its RStudio Server (rstudio.scholar.rcac.purdue.edu) around 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 29, 2023 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Weber will have the operati...