Announcements
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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 Superseded Due to a water main break near the Union, we will cancel the Coffee Break for today, Tuesday, 20...
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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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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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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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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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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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Hansen Cluster to be Decommissioned
Hansen has reached the end of its 5 year lifespan and will be decommissioned on October 1, 2016. This timeline coincides with the five-year warranty of the machine. Our current timeline for Hansen's retirement is: September 1, 2016: Jobs that run pa...
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On September 27th, 2016, the Carter cluster scratch filesystem, which had been suffering from numerous issues, was replaced by an entirely new system. Unfortunately, in order to put the new system into place quickly, it was not possible to copy over...
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We are seeing some issues with the systems in the warp-scratch set of hosts. You may encounter an error with your home directory and/or a message about permissions upon login. Even if you see this, you may find the system is still able to access bo...
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Software stack changes and upgrades
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack on the clusters. Changes will include updates to the default version of the Intel compiler and associ...
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Environment Modules System Upgrade
On Monday, May 9, 2016 the environment module system on Carter, Conte, Hansen, and Hathi will be upgraded to Lmod, bringing all compute clusters up to the same environment modules system. This new system has been in use on the Rice and Snyder cluster...
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New web-based quota monitoring tool
A new web-based quota monitoring tool is available to all Research Cluster and Data Depot users. This tool is a web equivalent of the myquota tool on the clusters. The tool allows you to monitor your quota usage just like myquota, but it also allows...
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New Data Depot Servers for Windows / Mac / SMB Clients
We would like to announce new servers for all Windows, Mac, or other SMB/CIFS users connecting to the Research Data Depot. These servers will offer far more reliable and faster access to the Data Depot than previously available. Before now, all of t...
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Environment Module System Upgrade for Radon and Peregrine1
The upgrade of the environment module system to Lmod on Peregrine1 and Radon was completed by the afternoon of Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Starting a new SSH session or logging out and back in will update your module system to Lmod - any sessions tha...
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Research Computing Demonstrations at SC15, Austin, TX
Visit the Purdue booth #303 to see demonstrations of Purdue-developed cyberinfrastructure technologies. Demonstrations Tuesday 2:00 - 4:00 PM Wednesday 2:00 - 4:00 PM Thursday 1:30 - 2:30 PM DiaGrid Multi-purpose science gateway for instant access...
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October 28, 2015 4:45pm On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 8:00am, Rossmann scratch storage will be unavailable as servers will be relocated as part of the decommission process. Access to scratch will be restored by Monday, November 2, 2015 at 12:00pm....
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Storage and Network Upgrades for Carter Cluster
ITaP is pleased to announce several upgrades to the Carter cluster to better enable data-intensive science. Network To relieve potential bottlenecks on IP network traffic, Carter will receive an upgrade to its Infiniband-to-IP gateway. This gateway t...
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Major Upgrade for Radon Cluster
The Radon cluster will be upgraded on Monday, February 16, 2015 with new energy-efficient HP Moonshot hardware and increased capacity. This upgrade should not cause any disruption of service. Today, Radon consists of 30 nodes, each containing two 4-c...
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Anaconda, a new Python distribution
At the end of the Fall semester a change is planned for the default Python installation. It will be replaced by Anaconda, a distribution of Python that includes over 200 popular Python packages used throughout scientific computing. Some of these pack...
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At the end of the Fall semester several updates and changes are planned for the software environment. These changes will make available the latest Intel compiler suite and common libraries built with the new compiler, update the default Matlab, provi...