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Outages and Maintenance

  • Scheduled Gautschi Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, March 18th 2025 from 8:00am EDT to 5:00pm EDT. In order to prevent power failures, we have scheduled electricians to investigate the electrical issues that resulted in the Gautschi outage last week...

  • Marina License Server Maintenance

    Purdue IT's Marina license server will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 7:00am EDT to 9:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo an operating system upgrade. Licenses hosted on Marina will be una...

  • Weber Cluster Maintenance

    The Weber cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Weber will have its operating system pat...

  • Unscheduled Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth outage

    At around 1:30 PM, Bell, Negishi, and Gilbreth began to exhibit exessively high temperatures. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an update by 8:00 PM.

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you...

  • Gilbreth Scheduling Paused

    At around 10:45am EDT, Gilbreth scheduling was paused in order to reduce thermal load while emergency plumbing work is performed on the cooling loop that serves the Gilbreth cluster. Login access to Gilbreth remains available for file access and jobs...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, April 2, 2025 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 transfer...

  • Power outage impacting multiple clusters

    Due to a campus-wide power outage, the Anvil, Negishi, Rowdy, and Scholar clusters experienced an unscheduled reboot at Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 8:30am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the impacted nodes and bringing services back online. If...

  • Unscheduled Anvil outage

    The Anvil cluster began experiencing issues with permissions issues of project directories around noon. We are working on the fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. Update: the issue has been fixed by 2:20 pm today.

  • Planned Network Maintenance – May 1 at 11:00PM-12AM

    PurdueIT Systems Security will implement a network update tonight at 11:00PM-12AM to improve network traffic routing to Rosen Center resources that will enhance connectivity. No downtime is expected, but brief disruptions may occur during the update...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, May 7, 2025 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 transfers...

  • Network Connectivity Issues

    RCAC systems are experiencing networking related issues that impact access to some destinations on the Internet. We are actively monitoring the situation and working to resolve the disruptions as quickly as possible. During this time, you may encount...

  • Negishi Cluster Maintenance

    The Negishi cluster will be partially unavailable Wednesday, May 28, 2025 from 8:00am - 3:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 at 3:00pm EDT. During this time, Negishi will have i...

  • Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance

    The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, June 4, 2025 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 transfers...

  • Github monthly maintenance

    The Purdue Github services will be unavailable Wednesday, June 4, 2025 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you...

  • Account Provisioning and Access Issues

    We’re currently seeing some delays with account provisioning and access for RCAC systems. The issue stems from upstream systems outside of our direct control. Please report any access issues to us as soon as you encounter them so we can assist and tr...

  • Anvil network interruption

    Beginning at 19:00 EST, the Anvil cluster will experience a brief network interruption to fix an issue related to network connectivity. Expected return to service is 19:30 EST.

  • Anvil Network Interruption

    Beginning at 10:00 AM EST on June 10th, the Anvil cluster experience a brief network interruption to fix an issue related to network connectivity. We are continuing to work on it and expected return to service is 11:00 AM EST the end of the day. Upda...

  • Unscheduled Weber Login Interruption

    The Weber cluster began experiencing issues with logins around 10:00am EDT. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. We will provide an update by 2:00pm EDT.

  • Resources down due to power event

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    Update 3:40PM, EDT: All systems have been returned to full service and queues are accepting new jobs. Update: 3:00PM, EDT: Systems returning but queues are still paused on all clusters except for Bell and Hammer. Some clusters are waiting for full co...