Conte
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Security updates for Conte and Radon scratch
Conte scratch has returned to full production as of approximately 2:15 pm. Update: February 26, 2015 1:20pm Radon scratch has returned to full production as of approximately 10:30 am. The work on Conte scratch is progressing as planned. Original mes...
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Research Data Depot Security Updates
As of 3:15 pm the maintenance is complete and Research Data Depot is returned to full production. Original message: The storage servers powering the Research Data Depot will undergo maintenance on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST...
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Important operating system updates - Community Clusters
On the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015, Carter, Conte, Hansen, Peregrine1, Radon, and Rossmann login servers will be rebooted to apply an important Red Hat Linux operating system update. Additionally, during this time scratch storage servers w...
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Unscheduled Outage to Conte Scratch
Update 2 Storage engineers have brought Conte scratch back to full production. Job scheduling on Conte has been restored as of approximately 2:20 pm on 1/21/2015. Any job that was actively writing to scratch while the filesystem was in a degraded sta...
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ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) in coordination with Physical Facilities will be conducting a planned power outage in the MSEE building from 8am until noon on Saturday, January 10th, 2015. No one will be allowed to enter the building during this...
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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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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...
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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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Diminished network connectivity to research computing resources
Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web site, Globus, Thinlinc, or other research computing resources may be impacted. To work around this iss...
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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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Network Maintenance for Carter, Conte, and Hansen clusters
The Carter and Conte clusters will be briefly unavailable on Monday, October 13, 2014 for upgrades to the clusters' respective network routers. This upgrade will significantly upgrade Conte and Carter's network connectivity, as part of ITaP's 2014 re...
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LustreD (/scratch/conte) unavailable
UPDATE: LustreD has been returned to service and scheduling has been resumed as of about 4 pm Saturday, October 4th, 2014. The LustreD filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, has become unavailable as of about 10:55 am Saturday, October 4th, 2014. Sys...
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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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On Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22-23, 2014, the Conte cluster will be unavailable for system upgrades. During this upgrade, Conte will receive several significant new capabilities: Infiniband drivers will be upgraded, enabling native Infiniband conne...
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Emergency Chilled Water Maintenance
During early June, 2014, all RCAC systems housed in the Math Sciences building will be unavailable due to an emergency repair to the redundant chilled-water system serving the MATH datacenter. A major chilled water line has developed a leak, and must...
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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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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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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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UPDATE - As of 7:45pm Sunday, March 16th, 2014, the fileserver maintenance has completed successfully, and cluster systems are back online. All Research Computing systems will be unavailable from 8:00am Saturday, 3/15/2014 through Sunday, 3/16/2014...
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The Lustre D filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, has become unavailable as of about 8:00 pm Thursday 13 Feb, 2014. System engineers are working to bring the system back to 100% operation. Currently running jobs should be able to continue, but sch...