Article #881: Hansen Scratch Storage
FINAL WARNING: Hansen will be decommissioned tomorrow night. After tomorrow, data in /scratch/hansen WILL NOT BE RETRIEVABLE from any system. Please...
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Article #899: Security vulnerability patch impacts debugging
Due to a recently found vulnerability in the Linux Kernel (known as the Dirty-COW vulnerability), an emergency patch has been applied on the cluster n...
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Article #897: Carter Old Scratch Retirement
The old Carter scratch filesystem (Warp) will be retired and shut down in three weeks' time. To access this filesystem and ensure you have any files...
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Article #910: Halstead Cluster Early Access Policies
Some reminders about the current operational status of Halstead: Halstead is currently in early access testing mode. The system is still being fully...
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Article #911: Transition to hierarchical modules on Halstead
Halstead's module stack is configured in a hierarchical fashion, a change from the "flat" module configuration on previous clusters. This ch...
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Article #920: Coffee Break is on
Update Heroic efforts got the water main fixed, and: Coffee is ON! Today and tomorrow (Wed 21 Dec and Thur 22 Dec) at Starbucks in the Union. Supersed...
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Article #923: 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 semeste...
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Article #924: 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 wil...
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Article #938: 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...
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Article #964: Carter Decommission
As a reminder, Carter will be shut down and decommissioned on Sunday April 30, 2017. ALL DATA in /scratch/carter WILL NOT BE RETRIEVABLE after April 3...
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Article #967: Clusters to complete transition to hierarchy modules
The transition to hierarchy modules has completed today, May 9th. If any of your job scripts still have old module names the module load will no longe...
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Article #991: Depot Issues for Windows 7 Clients
Research Computing had to make a recent change to the Samba servers which provide direct Windows access to the Research Data Depot in order to protect...
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Article #995: Removal of netcdf and hdf5 system-level library installations
Research Computing has begun removing several libraries installed at the system-level that should be provided by the module command. These libraries i...
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Article #992: Scratch Purge Policy Change
After a long review, Research Computing has determined it is necessary to alter the scratch storage purge policy on all systems. Effective August 28,...
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Article #1049: Globus Endpoint Retirement
The original RCAC Globus endpoint purdue#rcac (also known as the "Purdue University Research Computing endpoint") will be retired on Wednesd...
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Article #1054: 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 resou...
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Article #1095: Cloud Data Storage and Transfer Survey
ITaP Research Computing provides a wide variety of data storage services for open science, export controlled research, and controlled unclassified inf...
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Article #1105: Holiday Break
Purdue University will be observing a holiday break from December 23 - January 2. During this time, Research Computing services will continue to be av...
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Article #1151: 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 at...
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Article #1159: 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 p...