Announcements
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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...
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Research Data Depot Consistency Checking Underway, Snapshot Schedule Affected
The Research Data Depot is currently undergoing a full filesystem consistency scan. While the scan is running, all backend servers within the GPFS filesystem are under load while checking the filesystem, in addition to serving data in the course of n...
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Purdue receives $10 million from National Science Foundation for Anvil supercomputer
Purdue University will soon be the home of Anvil, a powerful new supercomputer that will provide advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research spanning from traditional high-performance computing...
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Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing in March, 2020. We are currently offering six 30-minute slots e...
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Community Clusters Transitioning to New Software Stack
As of 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, the Software Stack Transition on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Snyder, and Workbench clusters have been completed. If you have a login session (Thinlinc, Gateway, SSH, etc.) that was started before the...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I use the new modules? The new software stack is now the default (i.e. this is what you see when you...
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Community Cluster Life Cycles Extended to 6 Years
For the last several years, we've heard your input around longer lifespans for community clusters, and now, thanks to the end of Moore's Law, it makes sense to begin adjusting to a longer lifespan. Following an announcement July 31 at the annual Comm...
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BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication in order to log in to them, effective mid-August 2020. Here are some comm...
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Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters
During Aug 17-20th, 2020, due to immediate security concerns, we will be changing community cluster access to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access to each cluster and will no longer support p...
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Bell Cluster Deployment Status
Based on the AMD Epyc "Rome" processor, Bell is entering the final stages of deployment. Dell and AMD were tremendous partners with Bell and with their help we were able to make Bell the most powerful system ever deployed at Purdue, while s...
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All Research Computing GitHub services currently provided on github.rcac.purdue.edu will be transitioning to a new host, github.itap.purdue.edu. This transition will not disrupt any services. The new instance authenticates users against Purdue's dir...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration. My Data Depot space is so slow after the migration! UPDATE: October 8, 2021: As of October 7, the back-ordered metadata su...
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ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of the Anvil supercomputer to the science and engineering community. Researchers may submit allocation requests via XSEDE between June 15th to July 15th. Anvil, funded by the National Sc...
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ECN has implemented the new license system for Ansys version 2021. The older versions 17.0 and newer will be supported by the new license, however you may need to reset the license preferences if you are using versions older than 2021R2 starting Dec...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...
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Podcast: Long Tales of Science Purdue WHPC is on the mission to advance the women representations in the high performance computing field. We aim to provide information, connection and support for our fellow members. This year a new form of intervie...
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Whole System Benchmarking on Anvil
The Anvil team will perform a whole-system benchmark during March 21–29, 2022. During this period, Anvil will remain accessible for login and file access, but users may experience longer than usual job scheduling delays. We appreciate your patience a...