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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #868: Hansen Cluster to be Decommissioned
Hansen has reached the end of its 5 year lifespan and will be decommissioned on October 1, 2016. This timeline coincides with the five-year warranty o...
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Article #889: Carter Scratch Transfer Tool
On September 27th, 2016, the Carter cluster scratch filesystem, which had been suffering from numerous issues, was replaced by an entirely new system....
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Article #887: New Carter Scratch Filesystem
We are seeing some issues with the systems in the warp-scratch set of hosts. You may encounter an error with your home directory and/or a message abo...
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Article #876: Software stack changes and upgrades
During the Home Filesystem Maintenance - All Clusters maintenance on September 27th, several upgrades and changes will be made to the software stack o...
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Article #841: Environment Modules System Upgrade
On Monday, May 9, 2016 the environment module system on Carter, Conte, Hansen, and Hathi will be upgraded to Lmod, bringing all compute clusters up to...