Announcements
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Purdue faculty, campus units getting state-of-the-art storage system for research data
The people who brought Purdue researchers the best suite of supercomputers dedicated to use by faculty on a single campus in the country are beginning a similar program to meet Purdue’s faculty and campus unit research data storage needs. The Researc...
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Faster research network will speed research data travels on Purdue’s campus and off
Farmers in the fields of the future growing food in the amounts needed to feed the world are likely to do it with assistance from a steady data stream — one generated by a network of tiny sensors set among the plants and in sensor-laden remote-contro...
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Log in to Globus with your Purdue Career Account
ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the deployment of a Purdue-specific login page to manage your data transfers with Globus. Globus is a powerful and easy to use file transfer service that is ideal for transferring large data files virtua...
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Coates Cluster Decommissioning
Coates users are reminded that the Coates cluster is scheduled for decommissioning on September 30th, 2014. Only jobs which will complete before 8:00am on September 30th will be scheduled for execution. On Friday, October 3rd, 2014 user accounts will...
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Evaluation of new environment modules system
A new environment modules system, called Lmod, is available for evaluation on ITaP Research Computing clusters. ITaP Researching Computing staff are evaluating Lmod as a replacement for the current environment modules system and are looking for feedb...
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End of semester software environment changes
At the end of the Fall semester several updates and changes are planned for the software environment. These changes will make available the latest Intel compiler suite and common libraries built with the new compiler, provide an improved Python distr...
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At the end of the Fall semester several updates and changes are planned for the software environment. These changes will make available the latest Intel compiler suite and common libraries built with the new compiler, update the default Matlab, provi...
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Anaconda, a new Python distribution
At the end of the Fall semester a change is planned for the default Python installation. It will be replaced by Anaconda, a distribution of Python that includes over 200 popular Python packages used throughout scientific computing. Some of these pack...
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Major Upgrade for Radon Cluster
The Radon cluster will be upgraded on Monday, February 16, 2015 with new energy-efficient HP Moonshot hardware and increased capacity. This upgrade should not cause any disruption of service. Today, Radon consists of 30 nodes, each containing two 4-c...
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Storage and Network Upgrades for Carter Cluster
ITaP is pleased to announce several upgrades to the Carter cluster to better enable data-intensive science. Network To relieve potential bottlenecks on IP network traffic, Carter will receive an upgrade to its Infiniband-to-IP gateway. This gateway t...
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October 28, 2015 4:45pm On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 8:00am, Rossmann scratch storage will be unavailable as servers will be relocated as part of the decommission process. Access to scratch will be restored by Monday, November 2, 2015 at 12:00pm....
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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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Environment Module System Upgrade for Radon and Peregrine1
The upgrade of the environment module system to Lmod on Peregrine1 and Radon was completed by the afternoon of Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Starting a new SSH session or logging out and back in will update your module system to Lmod - any sessions tha...
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New Data Depot Servers for Windows / Mac / SMB Clients
We would like to announce new servers for all Windows, Mac, or other SMB/CIFS users connecting to the Research Data Depot. These servers will offer far more reliable and faster access to the Data Depot than previously available. Before now, all of t...
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New web-based quota monitoring tool
A new web-based quota monitoring tool is available to all Research Cluster and Data Depot users. This tool is a web equivalent of the myquota tool on the clusters. The tool allows you to monitor your quota usage just like myquota, but it also allows...
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Environment Modules System Upgrade
On Monday, May 9, 2016 the environment module system on Carter, Conte, Hansen, and Hathi will be upgraded to Lmod, bringing all compute clusters up to the same environment modules system. This new system has been in use on the Rice and Snyder cluster...
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Software stack changes and upgrades
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack on the clusters. Changes will include updates to the default version of the Intel compiler and associ...
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We are seeing some issues with the systems in the warp-scratch set of hosts. You may encounter an error with your home directory and/or a message about permissions upon login. Even if you see this, you may find the system is still able to access bo...
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On September 27th, 2016, the Carter cluster scratch filesystem, which had been suffering from numerous issues, was replaced by an entirely new system. Unfortunately, in order to put the new system into place quickly, it was not possible to copy over...
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Hansen Cluster to be Decommissioned
Hansen has reached the end of its 5 year lifespan and will be decommissioned on October 1, 2016. This timeline coincides with the five-year warranty of the machine. Our current timeline for Hansen's retirement is: September 1, 2016: Jobs that run pa...