Announcements
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This month, RCAC will be hosting a training for the Anvil Community. ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC 6/29/2023 11:00 AM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT This in-person workshop is intended to give C and Fortran programmers a hands-on introductio...
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As Purdue makes strides for Weber to meet CMMC compliance, part of that process is to ensure known hosts are connecting to Weber over the VPN. To that end, we have been collecting the MAC addresses of all VPN users of Weber for the last three months....
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In-person Coffee-Hour Consultation Location Change
Our in-person consulting hours (a.k.a. "coffee hour") location will be changing effectively immediately. RCAC staff have offered in-person consulting at the Convergence Center on campus downstairs in the lobby (and/or cafe area) for more th...
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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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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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Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule
Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...
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Note that the Purdue VPN has changed Beginning May 18, users will be able to access Purdue’s Virtual Private Network (VPN) by logging in with their Purdue career account password. Entering ‘password,push’ will not be required but is still an option....
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Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 8:00am EST on Friday, December 22nd, 2023 , and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. During this time, Research Computing services will continue...
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Potential Ticket Response Delays
As the holiday season approaches, we want to inform you about potential delays in our ticket response times until the end of this year. Our support team is currently working with reduced staff, impacting our ability to respond promptly. Additionally...
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Data Workbench Service Transition
The infrastructure that supports the Data Workbench service has reached the end of its life cycle and will be retired on Wednesday, December 6th, 2023. We will be transitioning Data Workbench customers to a new subscription offering that fulfills the...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on March 21, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. The default Slurm partition has been changed from wholenode to shared. This change seeks to reduce accidental waste of compute resources and SUs. In the old d...
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Research Computing Coffee Hour Changes
Starting this week, RCAC is implementing a new Coffee Hour schedule to better support users. These consultations are intended to provide users of Research Computing services with an opportunity for informal help and conversation. Monday through Wedn...
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Negishi Cluster Early User Access
After much delay from vendor setbacks, we are excited to announce the opening of the Negishi Early User Program (EUP). User logins are enabled. Participating research partners are encouraged to check their user and group account pages on the RCAC we...
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Hello, PurdueIT is replacing our ticketing system, Footprints, with a new product called Team Dynamix (TDX). Email to rcac-help@purdue.edu will begin to forward to the TDX environment effective Wednesday, July 12, 2023. You may notice a difference in...
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During Anvil scheduled maintenance on June 28, 2023, several changes were made on Anvil. Kernel updates. We have updated Kernel version to 4.18.0-425.19.2. CUDA updates. NVIDIA GPU driver has been updated to 530.30.02, and CUDA 12.1 was installed...
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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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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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[POSTPONED] Gilbreth Queue Changes
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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Gilbreth: Changes to Default Package Versions
As part of the July 20th Gilbreth Upgrade, the default versions of many software packages were updated. For a complete list of updated packages, please consult the table below. Modules with Updated Devault Versions Module Name Old Default Version...
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Podcast: Long Tales of Science Purdue WHPC is on the mission to advance the women representations in the high performance computing field. We aim to provide information, connection and support for our fellow members. This year a new form of intervie...