Article #597: 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...
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Article #600: 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 Purdu...
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Article #608: Intel Xeon Phi: Learning Resources
Introductory Documentation Conte Users' Guide Introduction to Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor: covers architecture, execution models, optimization, vec...
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Article #611: 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...
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Article #613: 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...
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Article #614: 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...
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Article #615: 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 y...
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Article #616: Alternatives to array jobs
In the past, array jobs were an efficient way of submitting large number of similar jobs, sequentially iterating through a list of inputs or parameter...
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Article #619: 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 reso...
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Article #622: 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 annua...
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Article #623: 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...
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Article #628: 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, applic...
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Article #625: Software Stack Changes in January
On January 7th, there will be changes made to the software stack on ITaP's community clusters. A few software will have their default versions upgrade...
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Article #646: Conte Cluster LustreD filesystem upgraded to Lustre version 2.4.2
During the scheduled maintenance the weekend of March 15-16, 2014, the Lustre filesystem for Conte ("lustreD") was upgraded to Lustre versio...
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Article #649: Faculty praise new Conte cluster, capacity still available to Purdue researchers
Erica Carlson and Keith Cherkauer are aiming at very different moving targets but the two Purdue faculty members are taking aim with the same tool — P...
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Article #632: Conte Cluster LustreD Scratch Filesystem Purging
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed for one week. The...
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Article #634: Scratch Purging to resume on Coates, Rossmann, Hansen, Carter
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed. The first automa...
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Article #651: Purdue student supercomputing team heads to China for international competition
Computer science major Matt Molo is considering a career in computer security, supercomputing or distributed computing over a large array of machines,...
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Article #660: Upgraded Radon Scratch Storage Available Now
As of May 5, 2014, ITaP is in the process of upgrading the hardware that provides scratch storage for the Radon cluster. When the process is completed...
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Article #657: Software Stack Changes in May
On May 19th, there will be changes made to the software stack on ITaP's community clusters. The software stack will be updated to include the latest I...