Announcements
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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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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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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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[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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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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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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Whole System Benchmarking on Anvil
The Anvil team will perform a whole-system benchmark during March 21–29, 2022. During this period, Anvil will remain accessible for login and file access, but users may experience longer than usual job scheduling delays. We appreciate your patience a...
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Podcast: Long Tales of Science Purdue WHPC is on the mission to advance the women representations in the high performance computing field. We aim to provide information, connection and support for our fellow members. This year a new form of intervie...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...
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ECN has implemented the new license system for Ansys version 2021. The older versions 17.0 and newer will be supported by the new license, however you may need to reset the license preferences if you are using versions older than 2021R2 starting Dec...
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ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of the Anvil supercomputer to the science and engineering community. Researchers may submit allocation requests via XSEDE between June 15th to July 15th. Anvil, funded by the National Sc...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration. My Data Depot space is so slow after the migration! UPDATE: October 8, 2021: As of October 7, the back-ordered metadata su...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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All Research Computing GitHub services currently provided on github.rcac.purdue.edu will be transitioning to a new host, github.itap.purdue.edu. This transition will not disrupt any services. The new instance authenticates users against Purdue's dir...
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Bell Cluster Deployment Status
Based on the AMD Epyc "Rome" processor, Bell is entering the final stages of deployment. Dell and AMD were tremendous partners with Bell and with their help we were able to make Bell the most powerful system ever deployed at Purdue, while s...
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Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters
During Aug 17-20th, 2020, due to immediate security concerns, we will be changing community cluster access to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access to each cluster and will no longer support p...
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BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication in order to log in to them, effective mid-August 2020. Here are some comm...
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Community Cluster Life Cycles Extended to 6 Years
For the last several years, we've heard your input around longer lifespans for community clusters, and now, thanks to the end of Moore's Law, it makes sense to begin adjusting to a longer lifespan. Following an announcement July 31 at the annual Comm...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I use the new modules? The new software stack is now the default (i.e. this is what you see when you...
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Community Clusters Transitioning to New Software Stack
As of 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, the Software Stack Transition on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Snyder, and Workbench clusters have been completed. If you have a login session (Thinlinc, Gateway, SSH, etc.) that was started before the...