Carter
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Scheduling Paused on Hansen and Carter
The scratch filesystem on Hansen and Carter is currently unavailable due to a hardware issue. Attempts to access scratch will block until the filesystem is back online. Job scheduling on Hansen and Carter has been paused while storage engineers addre...
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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 Intel compiler, version 14.0.2.144. Support for Intel versions 12.0.084 and 13.0.1.117 compilations w...
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The Carter cluster will be unavailable beginning at 8:00am on Monday, May 19, 2014, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by 5:00pm, Wednesday, May 21. During this time, Carter will receive operating system patches, an...
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Log in to Globus with your Purdue Career Account
ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the deployment of a Purdue-specific login page to manage your data transfers with Globus. Globus is a powerful and easy to use file transfer service that is ideal for transferring large data files virtua...
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Lustre Maintenance - 9/30/2014
The Lustre Filesystem for Hansen and Carter will be briefly unavailable, beginning at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, September 30. At this time, ITaP engineers will perform repairs on one of the Lustre storage nodes. Access to scratch may be intermittent while...
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Network Maintenance for Carter, Conte, and Hansen clusters
The Carter and Conte clusters will be briefly unavailable on Monday, October 13, 2014 for upgrades to the clusters' respective network routers. This upgrade will significantly upgrade Conte and Carter's network connectivity, as part of ITaP's 2014 re...
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Diminished network connectivity to research computing resources
Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web site, Globus, Thinlinc, or other research computing resources may be impacted. To work around this iss...
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Evaluation of new environment modules system
A new environment modules system, called Lmod, is available for evaluation on ITaP Research Computing clusters. ITaP Researching Computing staff are evaluating Lmod as a replacement for the current environment modules system and are looking for feedb...
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End of semester software environment changes
At the end of the Fall semester several updates and changes are planned for the software environment. These changes will make available the latest Intel compiler suite and common libraries built with the new compiler, provide an improved Python distr...
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At the end of the Fall semester several updates and changes are planned for the software environment. These changes will make available the latest Intel compiler suite and common libraries built with the new compiler, update the default Matlab, provi...
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Anaconda, a new Python distribution
At the end of the Fall semester a change is planned for the default Python installation. It will be replaced by Anaconda, a distribution of Python that includes over 200 popular Python packages used throughout scientific computing. Some of these pack...
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ECN services outage - ITaP Research Computing systems impacted
Engineering Computing Network (ECN) in coordination with Physical Facilities will be conducting a planned power outage in the MSEE building from 8am until noon on Saturday, January 10th, 2015. No one will be allowed to enter the building during this...
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Important operating system updates - Community Clusters
On the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015, Carter, Conte, Hansen, Peregrine1, Radon, and Rossmann login servers will be rebooted to apply an important Red Hat Linux operating system update. Additionally, during this time scratch storage servers w...
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Research Data Depot Security Updates
As of 3:15 pm the maintenance is complete and Research Data Depot is returned to full production. Original message: The storage servers powering the Research Data Depot will undergo maintenance on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST...
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Data Depot connectivity issues
ITaP engineers have identified issues causing intermittent failures on Carter. Engineers are currently tuning parameters on Depot system that have been identified as potential fixes to the issues. Access to Depot on Carter has been stable since tunin...
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Due to power work in the MSEE building, most ECN services will be unavailable between 6:30am – 9:00pm EDT on Saturday, August 15, 2015. For Research Computing users this means that software packages licensed through ECN servers will not be able to ch...
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Storage and Network Upgrades for Carter Cluster
ITaP is pleased to announce several upgrades to the Carter cluster to better enable data-intensive science. Network To relieve potential bottlenecks on IP network traffic, Carter will receive an upgrade to its Infiniband-to-IP gateway. This gateway t...
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Update: September 23, 2015 8am Shortly after 2am, Engineers were able to complete the file transfer and return Carter back to production. Update: September 22, 2015 11pm The file transfer continues and will last well into the night. The next update...
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Emergency scratch maintenance on Carter and Scholar
The scratch filesystem serving Carter/Scholar underwent emergency maintenance through Friday night and well into Saturday. We expect this work to resolve the periodic hangs this filesystem has been experiencing for the last two days. Job scheduling...
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October 30, 2015 11:00am ITaP Engineers have made additional timeout changes to the scratch filesystem which has increased stability. Additional work is being scheduled for Tuesday, December 1, 2015 from 7:00am to 7:00pm. October 8, 2015 5:00pm An e...