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Gautschi

  • The Gautschi supercomputer unveiled in dedication ceremony

    Last week, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) held a dedication ceremony for its newest community cluster, Gautschi. The Gautschi supercomputer is eponymously named in honor of Walter Gautschi, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and P...

  • Staff Availability and Coffee-Hour Schedule

    Research Computing personnel, including a significant number of the support staff, will be attending the SC24 conference on the week of November 18th. There are no planned reductions in service and staff will continue to monitor the ticketing system...

  • Gautschi-AI available for Purdue researchers

    The highly anticipated Gautschi-AI system is now online and ready for use at Purdue University. This expansion of the new Gautschi supercomputer is designed to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) workflows and enable Purdue to lead the charge in AI...

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, January 7th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be upgrading the PDUs serving Gautschi's AI nodes.

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, January 14th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be updating the network configurations for Gautschi's services.

  • Unscheduled Gautschi outage

    We are currently experiencing network connectivity problems with the Gautschi community cluster. Engineers are investigating and will provide an update by noon 1/18/2025. Update: This has been resolved.

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, January 21st between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be modifying some of the Slurm configurations around CPU allocation on th...

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, Febuary 4th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be updating the scratch file system, however this will not affect user fil...

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, Febuary 11th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be performing networking work on the cluster.

  • Unscheduled Gautschi outage

    The Gautschi cluster began experiencing issues with internal fabrics around 02:30 2025-02-13. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will...

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, Febuary 18th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be replacing some network cables and updating firmware on the AI nodes.

  • RCAC License Server Maintaince

    Update: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at 6:12pm EST This is a reminder that the RCAC license server will be unavailable on today from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST for scheduled maintenance. Licenses hosted by RCAC will be unavailable for checkout for the...

  • Gautschi EUP Scheduled Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, Febuary 25th between 8:00am-5:00pm EDT for the early user period's scheduled Tuesday maintenance. During this time, we will be updating system firmware.

  • Unscheduled Gautschi cluster outage

    The Gautschi cluster began experiencing issues with its power feed around 06:45am. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will provide an...

  • Gautschi supercomputer in full production and available for faculty use

    Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) most powerful supercomputer to date, Gautschi, has completed its early user program and entered full production - now available for faculty use. The Gautschi cluster features cutting-ed...

  • Scheduled Gautschi Maintenance

    The Gautschi cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, March 18th 2025 from 8:00am EDT to 5:00pm EDT. In order to prevent power failures, we have scheduled electricians to investigate the electrical issues that resulted in the Gautschi outage last week...

  • Marina License Server Maintenance

    Purdue IT's Marina license server will be unavailable on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 from 7:00am EDT to 9:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo an operating system upgrade. Licenses hosted on Marina will be una...

  • Network Connectivity Issues

    RCAC systems are experiencing networking related issues that impact access to some destinations on the Internet. We are actively monitoring the situation and working to resolve the disruptions as quickly as possible. During this time, you may encount...

  • RCAC sponsors Purdue student hackathon challenge, awards Gautschi-AI hours to winner

    Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) recently sponsored a challenge at the Catapult Hackathon, an event put on by the ML@Purdue student club. RCAC’s sponsorship included an allocation of GPU hours on the Gaustschi community cluster, wi...

  • Account Provisioning and Access Issues

    We’re currently seeing some delays with account provisioning and access for RCAC systems. The issue stems from upstream systems outside of our direct control. Please report any access issues to us as soon as you encounter them so we can assist and tr...