Announcements
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Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing in March, 2020. We are currently offering six 30-minute slots e...
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Purdue receives $10 million from National Science Foundation for Anvil supercomputer
Purdue University will soon be the home of Anvil, a powerful new supercomputer that will provide advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research spanning from traditional high-performance computing...
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Research Data Depot Consistency Checking Underway, Snapshot Schedule Affected
The Research Data Depot is currently undergoing a full filesystem consistency scan. While the scan is running, all backend servers within the GPFS filesystem are under load while checking the filesystem, in addition to serving data in the course of n...
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PBS to Slurm Transition Review
We would like to thank all our community cluster partners and researchers for your patience as we have moved all eight of our High Performance Clusters to a new batch job scheduler. This has been a project that demanded large amounts of effort on t...
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Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing. We are currently o...
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Research Computing resource allocations available for COVID-19 computational research
On March 5, 2020, NSF released a dear colleague letter on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to express NSF's interest in "... accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to better und...
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Coffee Hour Canceled for Spring Break
We will not be holding our normal Coffee Hour Consultations during Purdue's Spring Break (16 March - 21 March). After the break, we will resume with a virtual offering. (keep an eye out for details).
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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Hammer Frontends partial outage
Dear Hammer, Tier-2 users, As you may have noticed, one of the Hammer front-end machines was off in the last few days due to hardware failure. That caused several transient outages of the Remote Desktop and Jupyter Hub services. As of 2pm yesterday,...
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Starting July 22 the RCAC license server charter.rcac will be migrating to a new host, license-00.rcac. This will not disrupt any services and no action will be needed by users. Charter will continue to serve licenses until incoming license requests...
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To facilitate various types of workloads, to reduce wait time in the queues, and to improve GPU utilization on Gilbreth, we have made several changes to its queue configurations. Users now have access to two new queues on Gilbreth (long, and highmem)...
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New Burst Storage Available on Gilbreth
We are pleased to announce that Gilbreth’s burst buffer scratch file system is now open for beta testing. This file system, which augments the normal cluster scratch file system, is comprised entirely of super-fast NVMe storage and a totally new set...
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Box.com Research Lab Folders available for use
Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of Box.com Research Lab folders to facilitate easy data sharing and collaboration. Box Research Lab Folders are the ideal complement to the Research Data Depot, and will provide accessibility...
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Scholar features interactive HPC web portal
An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand, developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resourc...
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Clusters feature interactive HPC web portal
An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand, developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resourc...
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Gilbreth features interactive HPC web portal
Gilbreth's Gateway is an open-source HPC portal developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resources through a web browser and easily manage files, submit jobs, and interact with graphical applications...
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Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey
Starting Monday, February 11, 2019, login access to the community clusters from off-campus will require using Purdue's virtual private network (VPN). As with any use of the Purdue VPN, access to community clusters through Purdue’s VPN will require Bo...
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Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access
Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...
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Retirement of Temporary Depot Server
The Data Depot server "datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu", which was set up as a temporary solution for Samba protocol mismatch between Data Depot and ECN computers, will be retired on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Kindly note that after our recent Data...
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NetCDF and Related Module Changes
With the migration of the Halstead, Snyder, and Rice clusters to CentOS7, the configuration of the NetCDF related modules has changed. You no longer need to load a module for CDO, NCO, or Ncview when loading netcdf/4.3.2 or netcdf/4.5.0. You will ne...