Announcements
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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 action will be needed by users. Charter will continue to serve licenses until incoming license requests...
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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 Research Lab Folders are the ideal complement to the Research Data Depot, and will provide accessibility...
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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). As with any use of the Purdue VPN, access to community clusters through Purdue’s VPN will require Bo...
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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. Unfortunately, applying the existing patches for these to all cluster nodes could pose a significant...
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Envision Center hosts series of “coffee hours” for faculty, staff interested in virtual reality
Faculty and staff interested in learning more about how virtual and augmented reality technology can transform research and teaching are invited to attend a series of discussions this spring hosted by the Envision Center. Each “VR Coffee Hour” will f...
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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 CentOS7, Halstead Upgrade to CentOS7, Snyder Upgrade to CentOS7). Along with operating system upgrade,...
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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 and ECN computers, will be retired on May 31, 2018 - December 31, 2018 . Kindly note that after our...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for CMS research at Purdue, the Hammer Community Cluster will receive an operating system upgrade to CentOS7. Hammer is currently scheduled to be upgraded on Monday, June 4th, 2018. Most...
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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 need to load a module for CDO, NCO, or Ncview when loading netcdf/4.3.2 or netcdf/4.5.0. You will ne...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Rice is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one vers...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Snyder is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS is built from t...
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In order to continue to offer a current computational platform for research at Purdue, Halstead is going to receive a complete upgrade to CentOS7 - the Community Development Platform for the Red Hat family of Linux distributions. CentOS7 is just one...
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The Halstead and HalsteadGPU scratch storage will be moving to a new storage system over Thursday, April 12, 2018. There will not be any automatic transfer of files from your old scratch space to your new scratch space. You will find there are two ne...
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Brown GPU nodes available for use
The Brown cluster's GPU nodes have entered friendly-user mode, and are available for purchase. To make the cost of the GPUs more affordable, ITaP is pleased to continue with a cloud-like, annual subscription-based model that was first used on Halstea...
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Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave. Critical system outages will be dealt with should they occ...
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The original RCAC Globus endpoint purdue#rcac (also known as the "Purdue University Research Computing endpoint") will be retired on September 20, 2017 - December 31, 2017 . Accessing RCAC resource through Globus has been a huge success!...
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How to migrate your shared Globus endpoint
If you are the owner of shared Globus endpoints based off a retiring 'purdue#rcac' master endpoint, you may have to migrate your shares to a new resource-specific master. If you do not migrate them, your shared endpoints will become inaccessible on S...
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Radon to switch to hierarchical modules
Radon has been converted to hierarchical modules. Old style module load commands should still continue to function until the end of the Spring semester, however you will be given a warning message and a suggestion on how to correct your scripts. Once...
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Clusters to switch to hierarchical modules
Carter, Conte, Hammer, Hathi, Rice, Scholar, and Snyder have been converted to hierarchical modules. All front-ends have been converted, and nodes will update over the next couple of hours. Running jobs will not be impacted by this change. If you hav...
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Carter Cluster Decommission Early Notice
Thank you for partnering with ITaP in the community cluster program. Carter has been running for more than 4.5 years now and will be decommissioned on April 30, 2017. This timeline coincides with the five-year warranty of the machine. Our current tim...