Announcements
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 2, 2022, a couple of changes will be made to the current behavior of Slurm on Anvil. The standard queue will be renamed to wholenode. This change seeks to alleviate some of the confusion regarding the defa...
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Gilbreth upgrade and revised pricing structure effective July 2022
Research Computing is excited to now offer GPUs under the same arrangement as CPU Community Clusters in an expanded Gilbreth cluster thanks to a significant investment by ITaP and EVPRP! All the benefits of Community Clusters and more: Cheaper than...
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[POSTPONED] Gilbreth Queue Changes
To support the expansion of Gilbreth and related pricing changes, there will be several changes to queues on Gilbreth. These changes are designed to increase the availability of GPUs on Gilbreth and reduce wait time: Each lab/PI will have a named q...
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Replacement of "notebook.gilbreth" by Open OnDemand
As part of the July 20th [REVISED] Scheduled Gilbreth Upgrade, the Jupyter notebook service at notebook.gilbreth.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired. The old notebook service shares a single GPU on the Gilbreth front-ends among many users, leading to res...
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As part of the July 20th Gilbreth Maintenance, home directories on Gilbreth will be separated from the legacy home filesystem shared with several other clusters. This move will allow Gilbreth to grow and maintain home directory storage for years to c...
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Bell scratch purging policy change
As announced during the recent Bell outage, some temporary austerity measures need to be implemented to prevent the scratch file system from filling up and causing more outages. Hardware to expand the scratch file system has been on order for some ti...
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Gilbreth: Changes to Default Package Versions
As part of the July 20th Gilbreth Upgrade, the default versions of many software packages were updated. For a complete list of updated packages, please consult the table below. Modules with Updated Devault Versions Module Name Old Default Version...
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Important changes to Anvil login procedures
XSEDE program operations are coming to an end on August 31, 2022, and transitioning to the new ACCESS program. Anvil will continue to be a resource provider (RP) under ACCESS, however there are some significant changes planned across allocation and o...
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In the recently announced September 1st Brown Maintenance, home directories on Brown will be separated from the legacy home filesystem shared with several other clusters. Everyone will be given a new, empty, home directory on Brown with a 25 GB limit...
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RESTORED: Anvil OnDemand Authentication Temporarily Unavailable
Dear Anvil Users: Our engineers are currently working to resolve an issue with transitioning Anvil's OnDemand portal to use the new ACCESS authentication infrastructure, hence users will not be able to use the OnDemand portal. You may continue to use...
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RCAC and NVIDIA Present - Using GPUs with Python (Link correction)
Workshop Announcement: RCAC and NVIDIA Present - Using GPUs with Python Fri, Sep 30, 2022 1:00 PM Python is the leading language for data science today and is being increasingly used in scientific computations. This workshop introduces Python GPU too...
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To support the expansion of Gilbreth and related pricing changes, there will be several changes to queues on Gilbreth. These changes are designed to increase the availability of GPUs on Gilbreth and reduce wait time: Each lab/PI will have a named q...
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Complete! - New Hammer/CMS Home Directories
update 12152022: The home directory transition for the Hammer cluster is complete. If you did not previously transfer your home directory data, the old home server mounts are still mounted on the Hammer login nodes at /home-old. Additionally the co...
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The Halstead cluster has reached the end of its life cycle and will be retired on Thursday, December 1, 2022. Researchers who purchased access to Halstead should start archiving any data they may have there to the Fortress Archive now, or move it to...
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Scholar Cluster Updates and Changes
During the 2022 winter maintenance, the Scholar cluster had a significant upgrade and expansion of its hardware. The operating system was patched and user-facing applications and libraries stack was updated. The most important changes are outlined...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Research Computing Coffee Hour Changes
Starting this week, RCAC is implementing a new Coffee Hour schedule to better support users. These consultations are intended to provide users of Research Computing services with an opportunity for informal help and conversation. Monday through Wedn...
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Negishi Cluster Early User Access
After much delay from vendor setbacks, we are excited to announce the opening of the Negishi Early User Program (EUP). User logins are enabled. Participating research partners are encouraged to check their user and group account pages on the RCAC we...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on March 21, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. The default Slurm partition has been changed from wholenode to shared. This change seeks to reduce accidental waste of compute resources and SUs. In the old d...
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RCAC will be hosting a new Anvil training in March: "Containerized Bioinformatics Applications for HPC". This seminar will take place on March 23rd from 2:00PM - 3:00PM. This bioinformatics workshop will introduce the containerized bioinfor...