Announcements
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Update to Coffee-Hour Consultation Schedule
A few announcements for the RCAC community regarding our regular Coffee-Hour Consultation services. Support staff will be unavailable both today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday) because of other scheduled events. Notably, tomorrow is our Annual Cyberi...
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Hello, PurdueIT is replacing our ticketing system, Footprints, with a new product called Team Dynamix (TDX). Email to rcac-help@purdue.edu will begin to forward to the TDX environment effective Wednesday, July 12, 2023. You may notice a difference in...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 28, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. Kernel updates. We have updated Kernel version to 4.18.0-425.19.2. CUDA updates. NVIDIA GPU driver has been updated to 530.30.02, and CUDA 12.1 was installed...
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This month, RCAC will be hosting a training for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC 6/29/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introductio...
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Next week, RCAC will be hosting two trainings for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP 4/24/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on...
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Tape Access Unavailable on Fortress Thursday April 6, 2023 8AM-5PM
The tape library for Fortress will be undergoing regular maintenance on April 6 from 8AM to 5PM. During that time firmware for drives and the tape system will be updated. Users will experience delays in reading files from tape but file ingestion wil...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...