Announcements
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Upcoming Change To Data Depot Shared Storage – July 20
On July 20, RCAC will make a change to how Data Depot is provided so that it uses our newer, more reliable system. Data Depot is the shared storage many research groups use as a mapped drive or network folder on their computers and on RCAC clusters....
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RCAC to decommission Bell on October 31, 2026; Gautschi available as successor cluster
Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing will decommission the Bell community cluster on October 31, 2026, concluding Bell’s planned service lifecycle. Bell was introduced in 2020 as a community cluster for research computing and includes standar...
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Changes to Scratch Storage Policies
We are updating how we describe and manage scratch storage to keep our systems fast, reliable, and fair for everyone. Following good data practices makes scratch more performant and more useful for all users. By keeping master copies of important dat...
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CMS Compute and Storage downtime
On Wednesday afternoon March 4th 2026, the '2550' Data-Center, which hosts the CMS Tier-2, will undergo a planned full power outage, needed for upgrades. This will affect the following services: CMS Front-End (aka 'Login') nodes; EOS storage; XCache...
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Upcoming February 5 Maintenance – Math Data Center Upgrades and Service Impact
On Thursday, February 5, RCAC will perform planned maintenance in the MATH data center to support cooling upgrades and capacity improvements as part of the ongoing MATH data center renovation project. This renovation will allow Purdue to better supp...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on 12/23/25 and will resume normal business hours on January 5th, 2026 During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff...
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Announcing the Fall 2025 AI/LLM Training Series
Fall 2025 AI/LLM Training Series Preview Get ready for a 16-week hands-on training series focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs). Led by expert instructors, each weekly session builds practical skills f...
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Gilbreth Cluster Modernization
As part of an ongoing effort to utilize modern features in the Slurm scheduler and to streamline the process of usage reporting for research groups--something that is often requested by various PIs, the scheduler configurations on the Gilbreth cluste...
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As part of an ongoing effort to utilize modern features in the Slurm scheduler and to streamline the process of usage reporting for research groups--something that is often requested by various PIs, the scheduler configurations on the Bell cluster wi...
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Negishi Scheduler Modernization
As part of an ongoing effort to utilize modern features in the Slurm scheduler and to streamline the process of usage reporting for research groups--something that is often requested by various PIs, the scheduler configurations on the Bell cluster wi...
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Bell Maintenance Application Version Announcement
As part of Bell's upcoming maintenance, 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 unused ver...
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Gilbreth Maintenance Application Version Changes
As part of Gilbreth's upcoming maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Gilbreth. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and un...
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Gilbreth Maintenance Test Environment Available to Users
As part of next week's Gilbreth's maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Gilbreth. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and...
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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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Overview NIH has issued an implementation update for data management and access practices under the Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy (see Guide Notice NOT-OD-24-157). This introduces updated security standards for Approved Users of controlled-access...
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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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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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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...