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Snyder

  • Software stack changes and upgrades

    During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack on the clusters. Changes will include updates to the default version of the Intel compiler and associ...

  • Degraded performance of several systems

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    We have seen a significant wave of these events this morning, September 21. For the most part, this wave seems to have been linked to a storage problem that has been resolved. However, we are implementing new monitoring and response procedures toda...

  • Unscheduled Outage on Data Depot

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    As of 7:30 pm, all methods for connecting to Data Depot have been restored to working order. All connections with Samba (Network Drive mappings: datadepot.rcac.purdue.edu, samba.rcac.purdue.edu) are working normally again. More Rice and Snyder nodes...

  • ECN Services Outage

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend on several ECN server resulting in their unavailability for a short time. Some ECN services will be affected, including several software license servers for ITa...

  • POD Cluster Maintenance

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    Carter and Scholar are back online for use as of 6:25am, though they will be operating with many nodes still offline. Staff will be working through Wednesday to steadily increase the number of nodes available. This concludes the POD cluster mainten...

  • Network issues affecting Snyder cluster

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    The problem is now RESOLVED after the reboot of a router. ======= The network serving Snyder is currently experiencing issues. Attempts to log in to the cluster or access network filesystems will experience high latency and delays. Systems engineers...

  • Unscheduled Storage Outage

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    The Isilon filesystem was restored to normal service and all affected clusters had it remounted as quickly as was sustainable by the filesystem. This process was completed by Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 at 12:15am EDT. All clusters other than Conte (...

  • New web-based quota monitoring tool

    A new web-based quota monitoring tool is available to all Research Cluster and Data Depot users. This tool is a web equivalent of the myquota tool on the clusters. The tool allows you to monitor your quota usage just like myquota, but it also allows...

  • ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted

    Engineering Computing Network (ECN) will be performing staged patching and reboots of all of ECN's RedHat Linux workstations and servers to protect against a serious vulnerability in glibc system library. A significant number of ECN services will be...

  • Unscheduled outage on Rice and Snyder

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    As of 9:15 PM, the Snyder and Rice clusters have been brought back into service after cooling was brought back online. Front-ends are operational and scheduling has been resumed. Original Message: At about 7:30 pm Wednesday, 17 February, 2016, the fr...

  • Rice and Snyder Cluster Maintenance

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    As of 10:40pm, the Snyder cluster was returned to normal service in the POD. This concludes this maintenance. Update: February 5, 2016 8:54pm As of 8:25 pm, Friday, 5 Feb 2016, the Rice cluster maintenance has completed and the system is returning...

  • Unscheduled Home Filesystem Outage

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    As of 12:46, December 2, the home filesystem serving Conte, Hammer, Hansen, Hathi, Peregrine1, Radon, Rice, and Snyder was restored to normal operation. All queues have been re-enabled. As of Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at 12:00pm EST, Conte, Hamm...

  • Unscheduled scratch outage on Rice, Hammer, and Snyder

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    The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder has been restored to normal operations, and all queues have been re-enabled. Original Message: The scratch filesystem serving Hammer, Rice, and Snyder is partially unavailable. Both currently ru...

  • ECN Service Interruption

    Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...

  • Cluster Maintenance

    The Hammer, Hathi, Radon, and Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, July 1, 2015 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 at 12:00pm EDT. The do...

  • Cluster Maintenance

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    Software upgrades on Rice Cluster have been completed by 7:30pm. It is now open for access by early adopters. Please let us know if you see any issue with the cluster. Maintenance on Snyder, Rossmann, Hansen, Hammer, and Conte has been completed and...