Announcements
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for CMS research at Purdue, the Hammer Community Cluster will receive an operating system upgrade to CentOS7. Hammer is currently scheduled to be upgraded on Monday, June 4th, 2018. Most...
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Common CentOS7 Upgrade Questions
The Halstead, Rice, and Snyder clusters will be upgraded to newer CentOS7 operating system in May 2018 (detailed announcements in: Rice Upgrade to CentOS7, Halstead Upgrade to CentOS7, Snyder Upgrade to CentOS7). Along with operating system upgrade,...
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The Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be moving to a new storage system over Thursday, April 12, 2018. There will not be any automatic transfer of files from your old scratch space to your new scratch space. You will find there are two ne...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Snyder is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS is built from t...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Halstead is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Rice is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one vers...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...