Carter
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In order to repair a hardware issue with the underlying disk storage comprising LustreC, ITaP storage engineers will execute a brief maintenance on the filesystem on Monday morning, April 7, 2014. This issue is currently impacting the filesystem's re...
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Scratch Purging to resume on Coates, Rossmann, Hansen, Carter
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed. The first automated mailing of purge warnings for LustreA and LustreD will be sent on April 1, and the purge will oc...
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UPDATE - As of 7:45pm Sunday, March 16th, 2014, the fileserver maintenance has completed successfully, and cluster systems are back online. All Research Computing systems will be unavailable from 8:00am Saturday, 3/15/2014 through Sunday, 3/16/2014...
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All ITaP Research Computing systems are currently experiencing an issue with accessing network filesystems. A case has been opened with our vendor as ITaP engineers troubleshoot the issue. Cluster users may experience issues accessing files in /home,...
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Nearly all major clusters operated by ITaP Research Computing are stopped due to issues with their storage systems relating to the power loss on the West Lafayette campus in the wake of the severe weather Sunday night. This includes: Conte, Carter,...
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Update: 11:00pm, Nov. 12, 2013 ITaP storage engineers have returned the offline hardware to production and LustreC is back in production. Queues on Hansen and Carter have been restarted as of 11:45pm. Update: 5:00pm Following consultation with vendor...
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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 this event, we'd like to take this opportunity to remind all of our cluster users of the most effec...
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LustreC Filesystem Maintenance
The high performance scratch file system (LustreC) supporting the Carter, Hansen, Peregrine1, and WinHPC research clusters is in need of mandatory maintenance work. The work should be performed as soon as possible in order to ensure full performance...