Announcements
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End of semester software environment changes
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, provide an improved Python distr...
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Evaluation of new environment modules system
A new environment modules system, called Lmod, is available for evaluation on ITaP Research Computing clusters. ITaP Researching Computing staff are evaluating Lmod as a replacement for the current environment modules system and are looking for feedb...
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Coates Cluster Decommissioning
Coates users are reminded that the Coates cluster is scheduled for decommissioning on September 30th, 2014. Only jobs which will complete before 8:00am on September 30th will be scheduled for execution. On Friday, October 3rd, 2014 user accounts will...
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Log in to Globus with your Purdue Career Account
ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the deployment of a Purdue-specific login page to manage your data transfers with Globus. Globus is a powerful and easy to use file transfer service that is ideal for transferring large data files virtua...
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Faster research network will speed research data travels on Purdue’s campus and off
Farmers in the fields of the future growing food in the amounts needed to feed the world are likely to do it with assistance from a steady data stream — one generated by a network of tiny sensors set among the plants and in sensor-laden remote-contro...
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Purdue faculty, campus units getting state-of-the-art storage system for research data
The people who brought Purdue researchers the best suite of supercomputers dedicated to use by faculty on a single campus in the country are beginning a similar program to meet Purdue’s faculty and campus unit research data storage needs. The Researc...
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On May 19th, there will be changes made to the software stack on ITaP's community clusters. The software stack will be updated to include the latest Intel compiler, version 14.0.2.144. Support for Intel versions 12.0.084 and 13.0.1.117 compilations w...
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Upgraded Radon Scratch Storage Available Now
As of May 5, 2014, ITaP is in the process of upgrading the hardware that provides scratch storage for the Radon cluster. When the process is completed, Radon users will have a higher-capacity, higher-performance storage system, available as /scratch...
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Purdue student supercomputing team heads to China for international competition
Computer science major Matt Molo is considering a career in computer security, supercomputing or distributed computing over a large array of machines, the way the giant data centers of companies like Amazon and Google function. “I was really interest...
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Scratch Purging to resume on Coates, Rossmann, Hansen, Carter
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed. The first automated mailing of purge warnings for LustreA and LustreD will be sent on April 1, and the purge will oc...
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Conte Cluster LustreD Scratch Filesystem Purging
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed for one week. The first automated mailing of purge warnings will be sent on April 1, and the purge will occur on Apri...
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Faculty praise new Conte cluster, capacity still available to Purdue researchers
Erica Carlson and Keith Cherkauer are aiming at very different moving targets but the two Purdue faculty members are taking aim with the same tool — Purdue’s new Conte cluster supercomputer. Capacity in Conte is still available to Purdue researchers....
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Conte Cluster LustreD filesystem upgraded to Lustre version 2.4.2
During the scheduled maintenance the weekend of March 15-16, 2014, the Lustre filesystem for Conte ("lustreD") was upgraded to Lustre version 2.4.2, from version 2.1.5. This version upgrade was recommended by Data Direct Networks to address...
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Software Stack Changes in January
On January 7th, there will be changes made to the software stack on ITaP's community clusters. A few software will have their default versions upgraded in favor of the newest versions. Many older and infrequently versions of software will also be rem...
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New research group digital storage option offered to Purdue researchers
Faculty researchers who use Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers have a new group storage option for their research group’s data, results, applications, source code and anything else members of their lab or their collaborators may need to share....
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Retiring Steele cluster kicked off Purdue's current national prominence in research supercomputing
Sustainable energy supplies and energy efficiency are among the biggest issues facing society and heat transfer is important to the question of how to keep producing energy to meet demand now and in the future, and do it as efficiently as possible. L...
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ITaP pros help give student supercomputing teams a challenge at the SC13 supercomputing conference
This time of year, ITaP staff member Stephen Harrell would normally be riding herd on Purdue’s student supercomputing team as it competed at the annual SC supercomputing conference. However, Purdue sent a team to the international student supercomput...
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Globus Online available for RCAC systems
ITaP has deployed a Globus Online file transfer endpoint to enable Purdue researchers to manage data transfers between the RCAC clusters and data resources, and researchers' labs, laptops, and other computing centers around the world. GlobusOnline al...
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In the past, array jobs were an efficient way of submitting large number of similar jobs, sequentially iterating through a list of inputs or parameters. Array jobs were recommended in these situations largely due to limitations of the old job schedul...
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Conte Cluster enters production
As of 8:00am on Monday, October 28, 2013, the early access testing phase of Conte has completed and the cluster is in full production. Thank you for your patience and cooperation during the testing phase while the system was fine-tuned. The full Cont...