Announcements
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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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Common CentOS7 Upgrade Questions
The Halstead, Rice, and Snyder clusters will be upgraded to newer CentOS7 operating system in May 2018 (detailed announcements in: Rice Upgrade to CentOS7, Halstead Upgrade to CentOS7, Snyder Upgrade to CentOS7). Along with operating system upgrade,...
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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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Retirement of Temporary Depot Server
The Data Depot server "datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu", which was set up as a temporary solution for Samba protocol mismatch between Data Depot and ECN computers, will be retired on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Kindly note that after our recent Data...
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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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Gilbreth features interactive HPC web portal
Gilbreth's Gateway is an open-source HPC portal developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resources through a web browser and easily manage files, submit jobs, and interact with graphical applications...
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Clusters feature interactive HPC web portal
An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand, developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resourc...
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Scholar features interactive HPC web portal
An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand, developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resourc...
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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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New Burst Storage Available on Gilbreth
We are pleased to announce that Gilbreth’s burst buffer scratch file system is now open for beta testing. This file system, which augments the normal cluster scratch file system, is comprised entirely of super-fast NVMe storage and a totally new set...
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To facilitate various types of workloads, to reduce wait time in the queues, and to improve GPU utilization on Gilbreth, we have made several changes to its queue configurations. Users now have access to two new queues on Gilbreth (long, and highmem)...
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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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Hammer Frontends partial outage
Dear Hammer, Tier-2 users, As you may have noticed, one of the Hammer front-end machines was off in the last few days due to hardware failure. That caused several transient outages of the Remote Desktop and Jupyter Hub services. As of 2pm yesterday,...
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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).