Announcements
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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...
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Complete! - New Hammer/CMS Home Directories
update 12152022: The home directory transition for the Hammer cluster is complete. If you did not previously transfer your home directory data, the old home server mounts are still mounted on the Hammer login nodes at /home-old. Additionally the co...
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To support the expansion of Gilbreth and related pricing changes, there will be several changes to queues on Gilbreth. These changes are designed to increase the availability of GPUs on Gilbreth and reduce wait time: Each lab/PI will have a named q...
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In the recently announced September 1st Brown Maintenance, home directories on Brown will be separated from the legacy home filesystem shared with several other clusters. Everyone will be given a new, empty, home directory on Brown with a 25 GB limit...
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Important changes to Anvil login procedures
XSEDE program operations are coming to an end on August 31, 2022, and transitioning to the new ACCESS program. Anvil will continue to be a resource provider (RP) under ACCESS, however there are some significant changes planned across allocation and o...
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Bell scratch purging policy change
As announced during the recent Bell outage, some temporary austerity measures need to be implemented to prevent the scratch file system from filling up and causing more outages. Hardware to expand the scratch file system has been on order for some ti...
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As part of the July 20th Gilbreth Maintenance, home directories on Gilbreth will be separated from the legacy home filesystem shared with several other clusters. This move will allow Gilbreth to grow and maintain home directory storage for years to c...
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Replacement of "notebook.gilbreth" by Open OnDemand
As part of the July 20th [REVISED] Scheduled Gilbreth Upgrade, the Jupyter notebook service at notebook.gilbreth.rcac.purdue.edu will be retired. The old notebook service shares a single GPU on the Gilbreth front-ends among many users, leading to res...
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Gilbreth upgrade and revised pricing structure effective July 2022
Research Computing is excited to now offer GPUs under the same arrangement as CPU Community Clusters in an expanded Gilbreth cluster thanks to a significant investment by ITaP and EVPRP! All the benefits of Community Clusters and more: Cheaper than...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 2, 2022, a couple of changes will be made to the current behavior of Slurm on Anvil. The standard queue will be renamed to wholenode. This change seeks to alleviate some of the confusion regarding the defa...
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Whole System Benchmarking on Anvil
The Anvil team will perform a whole-system benchmark during March 21–29, 2022. During this period, Anvil will remain accessible for login and file access, but users may experience longer than usual job scheduling delays. We appreciate your patience a...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 3rd, 2022. During this time, Research Computing services will conti...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration. My Data Depot space is so slow after the migration! UPDATE: October 8, 2021: As of October 7, the back-ordered metadata su...
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal business hours on Monday, January 4th, 2021. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Bell Cluster Deployment Status
Based on the AMD Epyc "Rome" processor, Bell is entering the final stages of deployment. Dell and AMD were tremendous partners with Bell and with their help we were able to make Bell the most powerful system ever deployed at Purdue, while s...
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Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters
During Aug 17-20th, 2020, due to immediate security concerns, we will be changing community cluster access to require BoilerKey two-factor authentication (2FA) for all direct SSH or Thinlinc desktop access to each cluster and will no longer support p...
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BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication in order to log in to them, effective mid-August 2020. Here are some comm...