Announcements
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Carter cluster moves to state-of-the-art modular computer center
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts. Inside, it is the new high-tech home of Purdue’s powerful Carter supercomputer. ITaP has moved the...
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New Scholar cluster brings supercomputing to Purdue classrooms
A portion of the Carter community cluster, which faculty and their students use for computationally demanding research, is now available to give Purdue students in undergraduate courses introductory experience with high-performance computing. Dubbed...
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Intel Xeon Phi: Learning Resources
Introductory Documentation Conte Users' Guide Introduction to Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor: covers architecture, execution models, optimization, vectorization, MKL, debugging, and performance analysis in separate sections Intel Xeon Phi Programmin...
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Video shows off Carter cluster's new home
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts. Inside, it is the new high-tech home of the Carter community cluster. ITaP has moved the Carter cl...
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Effective Use of Research Storage
On Thursday, Oct 10, a BlueArc scratch fileserver suffered a filesystem failure that resulted in data loss on several scratch filesystems. In light of this event, we'd like to take this opportunity to remind all of our cluster users of the most effec...
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Early faculty users praise new Conte community cluster, now open to campus researchers
Purdue Professor Charles Bouman says his lab’s move to powerful supercomputers like Purdue’s new Conte community cluster is driven by need. That need prompted Bouman’s lab to be an active tester of the Conte cluster this fall, as ITaP Research Comput...
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Conte Cluster enters production
As of 8:00am on Monday, October 28, 2013, the early access testing phase of Conte has completed and the cluster is in full production. Thank you for your patience and cooperation during the testing phase while the system was fine-tuned. The full Cont...
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In the past, array jobs were an efficient way of submitting large number of similar jobs, sequentially iterating through a list of inputs or parameters. Array jobs were recommended in these situations largely due to limitations of the old job schedul...
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Globus Online available for RCAC systems
ITaP has deployed a Globus Online file transfer endpoint to enable Purdue researchers to manage data transfers between the RCAC clusters and data resources, and researchers' labs, laptops, and other computing centers around the world. GlobusOnline al...
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ITaP pros help give student supercomputing teams a challenge at the SC13 supercomputing conference
This time of year, ITaP staff member Stephen Harrell would normally be riding herd on Purdue’s student supercomputing team as it competed at the annual SC supercomputing conference. However, Purdue sent a team to the international student supercomput...
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Retiring Steele cluster kicked off Purdue's current national prominence in research supercomputing
Sustainable energy supplies and energy efficiency are among the biggest issues facing society and heat transfer is important to the question of how to keep producing energy to meet demand now and in the future, and do it as efficiently as possible. L...
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New research group digital storage option offered to Purdue researchers
Faculty researchers who use Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers have a new group storage option for their research group’s data, results, applications, source code and anything else members of their lab or their collaborators may need to share....
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Software Stack Changes in January
On January 7th, there will be changes made to the software stack on ITaP's community clusters. A few software will have their default versions upgraded in favor of the newest versions. Many older and infrequently versions of software will also be rem...
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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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Faculty praise new Conte cluster, capacity still available to Purdue researchers
Erica Carlson and Keith Cherkauer are aiming at very different moving targets but the two Purdue faculty members are taking aim with the same tool — Purdue’s new Conte cluster supercomputer. Capacity in Conte is still available to Purdue researchers....
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Conte Cluster LustreD Scratch Filesystem Purging
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed for one week. The first automated mailing of purge warnings will be sent on April 1, and the purge will occur on Apri...
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Scratch Purging to resume on Coates, Rossmann, Hansen, Carter
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed. The first automated mailing of purge warnings for LustreA and LustreD will be sent on April 1, and the purge will oc...
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Purdue student supercomputing team heads to China for international competition
Computer science major Matt Molo is considering a career in computer security, supercomputing or distributed computing over a large array of machines, the way the giant data centers of companies like Amazon and Google function. “I was really interest...
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Upgraded Radon Scratch Storage Available Now
As of May 5, 2014, ITaP is in the process of upgrading the hardware that provides scratch storage for the Radon cluster. When the process is completed, Radon users will have a higher-capacity, higher-performance storage system, available as /scratch...
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On May 19th, there will be changes made to the software stack on ITaP's community clusters. The software stack will be updated to include the latest Intel compiler, version 14.0.2.144. Support for Intel versions 12.0.084 and 13.0.1.117 compilations w...