Announcements
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Bell Maintenance Test Environment Available to Users
As part of Bell's maintenance on March 4-5, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8, which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Bell. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and unuse...
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Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance
The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, Febuary 11th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be performing networking work on the cluster.
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Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance
The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, Febuary 4th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be updating the scratch file system, however this will not affect user fil...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on Monday, December 23rd, 2024, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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In-person Coffee-Hour Consultation Location Change
Our in-person consulting hours (a.k.a. "coffee hour") location will be changing effectively immediately. RCAC staff have offered in-person consulting at the Convergence Center on campus downstairs in the lobby (and/or cafe area) for more th...
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Note that the Purdue VPN has changed Beginning May 18, users will be able to access Purdue’s Virtual Private Network (VPN) by logging in with their Purdue career account password. Entering ‘password,push’ will not be required but is still an option....
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Potential Ticket Response Delays
As the holiday season approaches, we want to inform you about potential delays in our ticket response times until the end of this year. Our support team is currently working with reduced staff, impacting our ability to respond promptly. Additionally...
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Data Workbench Service Transition
The infrastructure that supports the Data Workbench service has reached the end of its life cycle and will be retired on Wednesday, December 6th, 2023. We will be transitioning Data Workbench customers to a new subscription offering that fulfills the...
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As Purdue makes strides for Weber to meet CMMC compliance, part of that process is to ensure known hosts are connecting to Weber over the VPN. To that end, we have been collecting the MAC addresses of all VPN users of Weber for the last three months....
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The Brown cluster has reached the end of its life cycle and will be decommissioned on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Your access to Brown nodes will be terminated on November 8, however you can still access your files stored on Brown storage until Dece...
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Update to Coffee-Hour Consultation Schedule
A few announcements for the RCAC community regarding our regular Coffee-Hour Consultation services. Support staff will be unavailable both today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday) because of other scheduled events. Notably, tomorrow is our Annual Cyberi...
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Hello, PurdueIT is replacing our ticketing system, Footprints, with a new product called Team Dynamix (TDX). Email to rcac-help@purdue.edu will begin to forward to the TDX environment effective Wednesday, July 12, 2023. You may notice a difference in...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 28, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. Kernel updates. We have updated Kernel version to 4.18.0-425.19.2. CUDA updates. NVIDIA GPU driver has been updated to 530.30.02, and CUDA 12.1 was installed...
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This month, RCAC will be hosting a training for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC 6/29/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introductio...
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Next week, RCAC will be hosting two trainings for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP 4/24/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on...
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Tape Access Unavailable on Fortress Thursday April 6, 2023 8AM-5PM
The tape library for Fortress will be undergoing regular maintenance on April 6 from 8AM to 5PM. During that time firmware for drives and the tape system will be updated. Users will experience delays in reading files from tape but file ingestion wil...
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RCAC will be hosting a new Anvil training in March: "Containerized Bioinformatics Applications for HPC". This seminar will take place on March 23rd from 2:00PM - 3:00PM. This bioinformatics workshop will introduce the containerized bioinfor...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST on Thursday, December 22nd, 2022, and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...