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...
On Thursday, Oct 10, a BlueArc scratch fileserver suffered a filesystem failure that resulted in data loss on several scratch filesystems. In light of...
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...
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 W...
All ITaP Research Computing systems are currently experiencing an issue with accessing network filesystems. A case has been opened with our vendor as...
UPDATE 6:00 pm 14 Dec 2013 As of 5:45 pm we believe this problem has been corrected and Conte has returned to normal operation. The LustreD filesystem...
Update - 2:25pm, 12/16/2013 The LustreD scratch filesystem has been returned to service and both the filesystem and scheduler appear to be working pro...
The Lustre D filesystem, serving the Conte cluster, has become unavailable as of about 8:00 pm Thursday 13 Feb, 2014. System engineers are working to...
UPDATE - As of 7:45pm Sunday, March 16th, 2014, the fileserver maintenance has completed successfully, and cluster systems are back online. All Resea...
During the scheduled maintenance the weekend of March 15-16, 2014, the Lustre filesystem for Conte ("lustreD") was upgraded to Lustre versio...
Update: Due to issues with the automated processes indexing the Lustre filesystems, resumption of scratch purging has been postponed for one week. The...
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 I...
During early June, 2014, all RCAC systems housed in the Math Sciences building will be unavailable due to an emergency repair to the redundant chilled...
On Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22-23, 2014, the Conte cluster will be unavailable for system upgrades. During this upgrade, Conte will receive several...
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 p...
UPDATE: LustreD has been returned to service and scheduling has been resumed as of about 4 pm Saturday, October 4th, 2014. The LustreD filesystem, ser...
The Carter and Conte clusters will be briefly unavailable on Monday, October 13, 2014 for upgrades to the clusters' respective network routers. This u...
Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web si...
A new environment modules system, called Lmod, is available for evaluation on ITaP Research Computing clusters. ITaP Researching Computing staff are e...
At the end of the Fall semester several updates and changes are planned for the software environment. These changes will make available the latest Int...
At the end of the Fall semester several updates and changes are planned for the software environment. These changes will make available the latest Int...