Announcements
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FINAL WARNING: Hansen will be decommissioned tomorrow night. After tomorrow, data in /scratch/hansen WILL NOT BE RETRIEVABLE from any system. Please follow the instructions below to ensure any valuable files are migrated elsewhere. Original Message:...
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Security vulnerability patch impacts debugging
Due to a recently found vulnerability in the Linux Kernel (known as the Dirty-COW vulnerability), an emergency patch has been applied on the cluster nodes. This patch is necessary to avoid exploitation of the vulnerability. Unfortunately, the patch i...
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The old Carter scratch filesystem (Warp) will be retired and shut down in three weeks' time. To access this filesystem and ensure you have any files or data you need transferred, please refer to the Carter Scratch Transfer Tool news posting on this...
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Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies
Some reminders about the current operational status of Halstead: Halstead is currently in early access testing mode. The system is still being fully qualified by ITaP engineers and during this early access period, the cluster's nodes, network, and m...
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Transition to hierarchical modules on Halstead
Halstead's module stack is configured in a hierarchical fashion, a change from the "flat" module configuration on previous clusters. This change may require some minimal changes to your job scripts. This change will help prevent errors and...
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Update Heroic efforts got the water main fixed, and: Coffee is ON! Today and tomorrow (Wed 21 Dec and Thur 22 Dec) at Starbucks in the Union. Superseded Due to a water main break near the Union, we will cancel the Coffee Break for today, Tuesday, 20...
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Radon to switch to hierarchical modules
Radon has been converted to hierarchical modules. Old style module load commands should still continue to function until the end of the Spring semester, however you will be given a warning message and a suggestion on how to correct your scripts. Once...
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Clusters to switch to hierarchical modules
Carter, Conte, Hammer, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder have been converted to hierarchical modules. All front-ends have been converted, and nodes will update over the next couple of hours. Running jobs will not be impacted by this change. If you hav...
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Carter Cluster Decommission Early Notice
Thank you for partnering with ITaP in the community cluster program. Carter has been running for more than 4.5 years now and will be decommissioned on April 30, 2017. This timeline coincides with the five-year warranty of the machine. Our current tim...
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As a reminder, Carter will be shut down and decommissioned on Sunday April 30, 2017. ALL DATA in /scratch/carter WILL NOT BE RETRIEVABLE after April 30, 2017. See below for options on how to move any data you wish to keep from Carter's scratch space...
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Clusters to complete transition to hierarchy modules
The transition to hierarchy modules has completed today, May 9th. If any of your job scripts still have old module names the module load will no longer work so be sure to double check your PBS job scripts and output for any old module names. We have...
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Depot Issues for Windows 7 Clients
Research Computing had to make a recent change to the Samba servers which provide direct Windows access to the Research Data Depot in order to protect against a recently discovered security vulnerability. Unfortunately, we believe that change is also...
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Removal of netcdf and hdf5 system-level library installations
Research Computing has begun removing several libraries installed at the system-level that should be provided by the module command. These libraries include netcdf, hdf5, and several related packages. This change should have limited impact as module...
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After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28, 2017, all scratch storage systems will begin purging files which have not been accessed (for either...
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The original RCAC Globus endpoint purdue#rcac (also known as the "Purdue University Research Computing endpoint") will be retired on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. Accessing RCAC resource through Globus has been a huge success! However, th...
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How to migrate your shared Globus endpoint
If you are the owner of shared Globus endpoints based off a retiring 'purdue#rcac' master endpoint, you may have to migrate your shares to a new resource-specific master. If you do not migrate them, your shared endpoints will become inaccessible on W...
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Cloud Data Storage and Transfer Survey
ITaP Research Computing provides a wide variety of data storage services for open science, export controlled research, and controlled unclassified information. These use cases span several storage tiers optimized for active data, collaboration, and l...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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Envision Center hosts series of “coffee hours” for faculty, staff interested in virtual reality
Faculty and staff interested in learning more about how virtual and augmented reality technology can transform research and teaching are invited to attend a series of discussions this spring hosted by the Envision Center. Each “VR Coffee Hour” will f...
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Brown GPU nodes available for use
The Brown cluster's GPU nodes have entered friendly-user mode, and are available for purchase. To make the cost of the GPUs more affordable, ITaP is pleased to continue with a cloud-like, annual subscription-based model that was first used on Halstea...