Article #1858: Research Data Depot Consistency Checking Underway, Snapshot Schedule Affected
The Research Data Depot is currently undergoing a full filesystem consistency scan. While the scan is running, all backend servers within the GPFS fil...
Announcements
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Article #1533: PBS to Slurm Transition Review
We would like to thank all our community cluster partners and researchers for your patience as we have moved all eight of our High Performance Cluster...
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Article #1532: Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide i...
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Article #1530: Research Computing resource allocations available for COVID-19 computational research
On March 5, 2020, NSF released a dear colleague letter on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to express NSF's interest in "... accepting pro...
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Article #1487: Coffee Hour Canceled for Spring Break
We will not be holding our normal Coffee Hour Consultations during Purdue's Spring Break (16 March - 21 March). After the break, we will resume with a...
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Article #1486: Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the...
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Article #1475: Hammer Frontends partial outage
Dear Hammer, Tier-2 users, As you may have noticed, one of the Hammer front-end machines was off in the last few days due to hardware failure. That ca...
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Article #1324: License server migration
Starting July 22 the RCAC license server charter.rcac will be migrating to a new host, license-00.rcac. This will not disrupt any services and no act...
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Article #1325: Gilbreth Queue Changes
To facilitate various types of workloads, to reduce wait time in the queues, and to improve GPU utilization on Gilbreth, we have made several changes...
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Article #1323: New Burst Storage Available on Gilbreth
We are pleased to announce that Gilbreth’s burst buffer scratch file system is now open for beta testing. This file system, which augments the normal...
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Article #1296: Box.com Research Lab Folders available for use
Research Computing is pleased to announce the availability of Box.com Research Lab folders to facilitate easy data sharing and collaboration. Box Rese...
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Article #1293: Scholar features interactive HPC web portal
An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand...
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Article #1290: Clusters feature interactive HPC web portal
An interactive HPC web portal, dubbed Gateway, has been deployed on the Community Clusters. Gateway is an open-source HPC portal, called Open OnDemand...
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Article #1279: Gilbreth features interactive HPC web portal
Gilbreth's Gateway is an open-source HPC portal developed by the Ohio Supercomputing Center. Open OnDemand allows one to interact with HPC resources t...
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Article #1234: Cancelled: Off-Campus access to Community Clusters to require VPN, BoilerKey
Starting Monday, February 11, 2019, login access to the community clusters from off-campus will require using Purdue's virtual private network (VPN)....
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Article #1244: Change to Multi-user Shared Node Access
Research Computing has been assessing how to approach the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors for some time....
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Article #1191: Retirement of Temporary Depot Server
The Data Depot server "datadepot2.rcac.purdue.edu", which was set up as a temporary solution for Samba protocol mismatch between Data Depot...
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Article #1188: NetCDF and Related Module Changes
With the migration of the Halstead, Snyder, and Rice clusters to CentOS7, the configuration of the NetCDF related modules has changed. You no longer...
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Article #1186: Hammer Upgrade to CentOS7
In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for CMS research at Purdue, the Hammer Community Cluster will receive an operating syst...
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Article #1179: Common CentOS7 Upgrade Questions
The Halstead, Rice, and Snyder clusters will be upgraded to newer CentOS7 operating system in May 2018 (detailed announcements in: Rice Upgrade to Cen...