During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you may have difficulties accessing your repositories.

During this time, Fortress will receive normal software and hardware updates. Any transfers which request files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail until this maintenance is completed.

Service was fully restored at 10:45 PM EDT, and login functionality has returned to normal. No data loss occurred.

To prevent further impact, job submissions to clusters connected to Depot have been temporarily paused while the team works restore normal operation.

Impact: Users may experience job delays or failures when writing to the Data Depot.

Current Status: Our engineering team is actively addressing the capacity issue.

Next Update: We will provide an update once the service is restored or we have more information to share.

The Weber cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, March 18, 2026 from 8:00am - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by 5:00pm EDT.

During this time, Weber will have its operating system patched.

Any Slurm jobs which request a walltime which would take them past Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 8:00am EDT will not start and will remain in the queue until after the maintenance is completed.

Due to the outage, some jobs on Gilbreth did not requeue automatically. Users should check the status of any jobs that were running early this morning and resubmit them if needed.

• Impact: Users are currently unable to access their home directories, and SSH connections or active terminal sessions may freeze or be denied.

• Current action: System administrators are performing a system reboot of the affected storage infrastructure to clear the error and restore file access.

** How does this change impact you? **

Login to Weber: The change will simplify logging into Weber. Weber users currently need to authenticate to Luna VPN or VDI with Luna credentials, and then additionally authenticate to Weber with BoilerAD credentials. After the change, users will just need to use their Luna password when logging into Weber resources, including via ThinlLinc, SMB, and SSH. Luna password will be the same password as is currently used to log into the VPN.

ThinlLinc: Anyone accessing Weber via ThinLinc directly from their endpoint will need to switch to using ThinLinc from a Luna Desktop.

Data Egress: File egress will be disabled, and users will need to submit a ticket each time they wish to transfer files outside weber. Egress to Apricon drives will no longer be supported on regular endpoints.

During the maintenance window, job scheduling though Slurm and network drive mounts of Weber storage will be unavailable.

These changes position Purdue to meet the requirements of CMMC Level 2 compliance and will be crucial for continuation of various grants and contracts.

Please reach out to rcac-help@purdue.edu? if you have any questions.

During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you may have difficulties accessing your repositories.

**How does this impact you? ** We have paused job scheduling on the CPU nodes. You can continue to submit jobs to Gautschi nodes, however the jobs will remain queued until after the maintenance is complete.

The cooling leak does not affect Gautschi AI nodes. Therefore, those nodes continue to operate normally.

We will provide additional updates by Thursday, March 5 at 12 pm. Please reach out to rcac-help@purdue.edu if you have any questions or need support.

During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you may have difficulties accessing your repositories.

During this time, Fortress will receivea major upgrade to its software. This will include some database conversions to add/modify some database tables and columns. Any transfers which request files sent to or from Fortress will either block or fail until this maintenance is completed.

Note that this outage is entended to the next morning because of full floor power work being done in the data center that Fortress is housed in. It was deemed better to leave the system unavailable rather than bring it up and then back down for the power outage.

Impact to you Attempts to read files that are on the affected storage may result in error messages

Our IT team is actively working with the vendor to restore service as quickly as possible. We will send an update as soon as more information is available.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to restore Gilbreth service.

We will provide updates as the situation develops and once service is fully restored.

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

During this maintenance window, several clusters will experience a temporary outage so that hardware can be safely powered down while facility work is performed:

• Gautschi, Gilbreth, Negishi, Bell, and Anvil cluster nodes will be powered down.

• The Gilbreth’s legacy V100 GPUs, that are well past their lifetime, will be decommissioned.

• Hammer (Math nodes) and Geddes: A subset of nodes will be powered down but the services will be available, unless communicated separately.

How does this maintenance impact you?

• Clusters listed in this message won’t be available to run jobs during the maintenance.

• Any jobs requesting a walltime which would take them past the start of the maintenance will not start and will remain in the queue until after the maintenance is completed.

• Users can continue to access their data.

• GenAI studio will remain available. This maintenance will position Purdue to support growing computational needs. Users should see long‑term benefits in system reliability and our ability to support future computing and AI resources.

If you have questions about how this outage will affect your work or need support, please contact rcac-help@purdue.edu.

During this time, the Github appliances will receive normal software updates, and you may have difficulties accessing your repositories.