Announcements
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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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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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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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Issues with Microsoft Authenticator Push Notifications
We’re aware that some users are having trouble seeing Microsoft Authenticator push prompts during sign-in. Authentication is still working, but the experience may be confusing or inconvenient. We wanted to share what’s going on and how you can work a...
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Important: Use Microsoft Authenticator to Access Purdue RCAC Resources Starting May 11, 2026
May 12 Update Some users are experiencing issues with push notifications; see current Microsoft Authenticator Trouble Announcement notice here. https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/news/7738 Beginning May 11, 2026, RCAC will move from Duo Mobile to Microsoft...
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Bioinformatics and genomics modules available for Anvil users
Anvil users working in bioinformatics and genomics have access to over 750 pre-built software modules through the biocontainers framework, covering tools for sequence alignment, genome assembly, variant calling, RNA-seq analysis, and more. To get sta...
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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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Purdue AI Research Showcase Student Poster Session Callout
The Institute for Physical AI, in partnership with the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, is organizing the Purdue AI Research Showcase. This is a campus-wide event designed to bring together AI experts, practitioners, and learners to showcase the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...