Article #2970: Data Depot Migration FAQ
The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the Data Depot Hardware Replacement and Migration. My Data Depot space is...
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Article #2511: Research Computing Holiday Break
Research Computing personnel will observe the university winter break from 5:00pm EST EST on Friday, December 18th, 2020, and will resume normal busin...
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Article #2509: Our Github is moving
All Research Computing GitHub services currently provided on github.rcac.purdue.edu will be transitioning to a new host, github.itap.purdue.edu. This...
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Article #2221: Bell Cluster Deployment Status
Based on the AMD Epyc "Rome" processor, Bell is entering the final stages of deployment. Dell and AMD were tremendous partners with Bell and...
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Article #2099: Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters
During Aug 17-20th, 2020, due to immediate security concerns, we will be changing community cluster access to require BoilerKey two-factor authenticat...
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Article #2101: BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey...
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Article #2103: Community Cluster Life Cycles Extended to 6 Years
For the last several years, we've heard your input around longer lifespans for community clusters, and now, thanks to the end of Moore's Law, it makes...
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Article #2098: New Software Stack FAQ
The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I...
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Article #1872: Community Clusters Transitioning to New Software Stack
As of 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, the Software Stack Transition on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Snyder, and Workbench clusters have bee...
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Article #1972: Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via...
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Article #1868: Purdue receives $10 million from National Science Foundation for Anvil supercomputer
Purdue University will soon be the home of Anvil, a powerful new supercomputer that will provide advanced computing capabilities to support a wide ran...
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Article #1858: Research Data Depot Consistency Checking Underway, Snapshot Schedule Affected
The Research Data Depot is currently undergoing a full filesystem consistency scan. While the scan is running, all backend servers within the GPFS fil...
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Article #1533: PBS to Slurm Transition Review
We would like to thank all our community cluster partners and researchers for your patience as we have moved all eight of our High Performance Cluster...
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Article #1532: Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide i...
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Article #1530: Research Computing resource allocations available for COVID-19 computational research
On March 5, 2020, NSF released a dear colleague letter on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to express NSF's interest in "... accepting pro...
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Article #1487: Coffee Hour Canceled for Spring Break
We will not be holding our normal Coffee Hour Consultations during Purdue's Spring Break (16 March - 21 March). After the break, we will resume with a...
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Article #1486: Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the...
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Article #1475: Hammer Frontends partial outage
Dear Hammer, Tier-2 users, As you may have noticed, one of the Hammer front-end machines was off in the last few days due to hardware failure. That ca...
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Article #1324: License server migration
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 act...
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Article #1325: Gilbreth Queue Changes
To facilitate various types of workloads, to reduce wait time in the queues, and to improve GPU utilization on Gilbreth, we have made several changes...