Announcements
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Conte Cluster LustreD filesystem upgraded to Lustre version 2.4.2
During the scheduled maintenance the weekend of March 15-16, 2014, the Lustre filesystem for Conte ("lustreD") was upgraded to Lustre version 2.4.2, from version 2.1.5. This version upgrade was recommended by Data Direct Networks to address...
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Research Computing Demonstrations at SC15, Austin, TX
Visit the Purdue booth #303 to see demonstrations of Purdue-developed cyberinfrastructure technologies. Demonstrations Tuesday 2:00 - 4:00 PM Wednesday 2:00 - 4:00 PM Thursday 1:30 - 2:30 PM DiaGrid Multi-purpose science gateway for instant access...
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Cloud Data Storage and Transfer Survey
ITaP Research Computing provides a wide variety of data storage services for open science, export controlled research, and controlled unclassified information. These use cases span several storage tiers optimized for active data, collaboration, and l...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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Brown GPU nodes available for use
The Brown cluster's GPU nodes have entered friendly-user mode, and are available for purchase. To make the cost of the GPUs more affordable, ITaP is pleased to continue with a cloud-like, annual subscription-based model that was first used on Halstea...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Rice is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one vers...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Halstead is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Snyder is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS is built from t...
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The Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be moving to a new storage system over Thursday, April 12, 2018. There will not be any automatic transfer of files from your old scratch space to your new scratch space. You will find there are two ne...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for CMS research at Purdue, the Hammer Community Cluster will receive an operating system upgrade to CentOS7. Hammer is currently scheduled to be upgraded on Monday, June 4th, 2018. Most...
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NetCDF and Related Module Changes
With the migration of the Halstead, Snyder, and Rice clusters to CentOS7, the configuration of the NetCDF related modules has changed. You no longer need to load a module for CDO, NCO, or Ncview when loading netcdf/4.3.2 or netcdf/4.5.0. You will ne...
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Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access
Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...
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Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey
Starting Monday, February 11, 2019, login access to the community clusters from off-campus will require using Purdue's virtual private network (VPN). As with any use of the Purdue VPN, access to community clusters through Purdue’s VPN will require Bo...
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Box.com Research Lab Folders available for use
Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of Box.com Research Lab folders to facilitate easy data sharing and collaboration. Box Research Lab Folders are the ideal complement to the Research Data Depot, and will provide accessibility...
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Starting July 22 the RCAC license server charter.rcac will be migrating to a new host, license-00.rcac. This will not disrupt any services and no action will be needed by users. Charter will continue to serve licenses until incoming license requests...
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Coffee Hour Canceled for Spring Break
We will not be holding our normal Coffee Hour Consultations during Purdue's Spring Break (16 March - 21 March). After the break, we will resume with a virtual offering. (keep an eye out for details).
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Research Computing resource allocations available for COVID-19 computational research
On March 5, 2020, NSF released a dear colleague letter on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to express NSF's interest in "... accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to better und...
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Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing. We are currently o...
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PBS to Slurm Transition Review
We would like to thank all our community cluster partners and researchers for your patience as we have moved all eight of our High Performance Clusters to a new batch job scheduler. This has been a project that demanded large amounts of effort on t...