Announcements
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Research computing coffee consultations offer benefits for would-be, new and experienced users
Graduate student Brett Lahner started attending the weekly, one-hour informal meetups hosted by ITaP Research Computing (RCAC) staff to help him with the bioinformatics work he’s begun in Professor Brian Dilkes plant genetics lab. “The clusters seem...
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Purdue student supercomputing team headed for competition in Germany
Aerospace engineering major Trevor Johnson has a career designing aircraft in mind and that means supercomputing to figure out how a design affects important performance factors, like the way air flows over an aircraft’s body. The senior from Orion,...
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Purdue researchers will have nation's fastest campus supercomputer—again
The next Community Cluster Program supercomputer, which ITaP is readying for use by faculty later this year, already has tested as the most powerful system for use by researchers on a single university campus in the country and as one of the top supe...
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Carter cluster moves to state-of-the-art modular computer center
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts. Inside, it is the new high-tech home of Purdue’s powerful Carter supercomputer. ITaP has moved the...
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New Scholar cluster brings supercomputing to Purdue classrooms
A portion of the Carter community cluster, which faculty and their students use for computationally demanding research, is now available to give Purdue students in undergraduate courses introductory experience with high-performance computing. Dubbed...
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Intel Xeon Phi: Learning Resources
Introductory Documentation Conte Users' Guide Introduction to Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor: covers architecture, execution models, optimization, vectorization, MKL, debugging, and performance analysis in separate sections Intel Xeon Phi Programmin...
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Video shows off Carter cluster's new home
On the outside that may look like a shipping container deposited behind a security fence at the Purdue power plant, but it’s what’s inside that counts. Inside, it is the new high-tech home of the Carter community cluster. ITaP has moved the Carter cl...
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Effective Use of Research Storage
On Thursday, Oct 10, a BlueArc scratch fileserver suffered a filesystem failure that resulted in data loss on several scratch filesystems. In light of this event, we'd like to take this opportunity to remind all of our cluster users of the most effec...
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Early faculty users praise new Conte community cluster, now open to campus researchers
Purdue Professor Charles Bouman says his lab’s move to powerful supercomputers like Purdue’s new Conte community cluster is driven by need. That need prompted Bouman’s lab to be an active tester of the Conte cluster this fall, as ITaP Research Comput...
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Conte Cluster enters production
As of 8:00am on Monday, October 28, 2013, the early access testing phase of Conte has completed and the cluster is in full production. Thank you for your patience and cooperation during the testing phase while the system was fine-tuned. The full Cont...
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In the past, array jobs were an efficient way of submitting large number of similar jobs, sequentially iterating through a list of inputs or parameters. Array jobs were recommended in these situations largely due to limitations of the old job schedul...
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Globus Online available for RCAC systems
ITaP has deployed a Globus Online file transfer endpoint to enable Purdue researchers to manage data transfers between the RCAC clusters and data resources, and researchers' labs, laptops, and other computing centers around the world. GlobusOnline al...
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ITaP pros help give student supercomputing teams a challenge at the SC13 supercomputing conference
This time of year, ITaP staff member Stephen Harrell would normally be riding herd on Purdue’s student supercomputing team as it competed at the annual SC supercomputing conference. However, Purdue sent a team to the international student supercomput...
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Retiring Steele cluster kicked off Purdue's current national prominence in research supercomputing
Sustainable energy supplies and energy efficiency are among the biggest issues facing society and heat transfer is important to the question of how to keep producing energy to meet demand now and in the future, and do it as efficiently as possible. L...
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New research group digital storage option offered to Purdue researchers
Faculty researchers who use Purdue’s community cluster supercomputers have a new group storage option for their research group’s data, results, applications, source code and anything else members of their lab or their collaborators may need to share....
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Regular account expiration starting on ITaP research clusters
In February, 2012, many accounts belonging to former Purdue students and staff will be retired. For most computing services at Purdue, your Purdue Career Account and @purdue.edu email will remain active as long as you remain affiliated with Purdue Un...
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New Windows HPC cluster now available to Purdue researchers
Forestry and natural resources Professor Bryan Pijanowski’s research looks at how people and land use play into the state of ecosystems, including issues like projecting loss of prime farmland to urbanization over the next 50 years and the potential...
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Orders open for Carter, Purdue’s new top-ranked research supercomputing cluster
Orders for the new Carter Community Cluster are now being taken by ITaP and its Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, which plans to have Purdue’s new research supercomputer running in full production by April. Carter features HP compute nodes with tw...
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New Carter community cluster is fully operational, capacity available
Alina Alexeenko thinks Purdue’s new Carter community cluster should give her lab a lot more computing power to study rarified gas flow problems — which can span topics from spacecraft exhaust plumes to tiny micro-electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS,...
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Free, fast BLAST processing with friendly interface now available to faculty and their students
BLAST, the popular bioinformatics software, is now available to Purdue faculty and their students through a new graphical user interface running on Purdue’s DiaGrid distributed computing system. DiaGrid can make thousands of processors available at o...