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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #595: 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 s...
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Article #592: 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 im...
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Article #586: 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...
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Article #560: New class will have students building, running their own supercomputer
When his computer architecture class gets to solving bottlenecks various applications tend to hit, Ethan Madden figures he will be in familiar territo...
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Article #558: Students gain new perspectives on supercomputing, breakfast, mattresses
As a student worker helping maintain Purdue’s research supercomputers, Andrew Huff knows something about how University faculty researchers use the ma...