Gilbreth
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As of 12:30pm EDT all the clusters are back in production. If your job crashed during the outage, please resubmit it. We are currently experiencing an outage across the community clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WC...
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BoilerKey and SSH Key Login to Clusters FAQ
As explained in the news article on Requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication on Community Clusters, all clusters will now be requiring BoilerKey or SSH key authentication in order to log in to them, effective mid-August 2020. Here are some comm...
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Community Clusters Transitioning to New Software Stack
As of 4:00 PM on Thursday, August 6th, 2020, the Software Stack Transition on Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Snyder, and Workbench clusters have been completed. If you have a login session (Thinlinc, Gateway, SSH, etc.) that was started before the...
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The following are highlights and answers to frequently asked questions about the new Spack-based software stacks on ITaP Community Clusters. How do I use the new modules? The new software stack is now the default (i.e. this is what you see when you...
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Research Computing Continues to Offer Remote Consulting and Training
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing started to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing in March, 2020. We are currently offering six 30-minute slots e...
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Unscheduled Home Directory Outage
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with intermittently slow home directories access around 2:30pm EDT. The issue has been traced to a high load on one of the filesystem's back-end se...
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Engineering Computing Network (ECN) has reported an outage on the software license servers for ITaP Research Computing systems that are hosted by ECN. ITaP Research Computing cluster job scheduling is not affected by the outage, but licenses for soft...
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Running Jobs on Community Clusters While Data Depot is Unavailable
Since Friday, April 17, the Research Data Depot filesystem has been unavailable on community cluster systems due to an ongoing filesystem verification. While we don't believe there is any danger of data loss, the filesystem verification will continu...
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Unscheduled Data Depot outage on the clusters
The Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, and Workbench clusters began experiencing issues with connection to Data Depot filesystem around 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and ar...
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Research Computing Offers Remote Consulting
In response to the unprecedented situation we find ourselves in, Research Computing announced on March 12th that our staff will continue to provide in-depth consulting service to researchers via video conference or screen sharing. We are currently o...
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Gilbreth will be transitioning to a new batch scheduler on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020! This is a necessary upgrade and will require faculty and students to modify how they interact with the batch system. Please review the information below prior to...
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Research Computing COVID-19 Preparedness
On March 10, 2020 President Daniels and Provost Akridge announced that in-person instruction at Purdue will move to online to mitigate risks from the COVID-19 virus. This article will highlight the impact of this change to day-to-day life on campus o...
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The Gilbreth cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 11:30am EST. 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...
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Data Depot suffered a system failure around 5:15pm EDT. 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 update by 9pm or earlier as...
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Unscheduled research homes outage affecting all clusters
All clusters began experiencing issues with the home file system around 12:30pm EDT. 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 a...
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The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning Thursday, July 25th, 2019 at 12:00am EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Thursday , July 25, 2019 at 5:00pm. During this time, Gilbreth will have minor ope...
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To facilitate various types of workloads, to reduce wait time in the queues, and to improve GPU utilization on Gilbreth, we have made several changes to its queue configurations. Users now have access to two new queues on Gilbreth (long, and highmem)...
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New Burst Storage Available on Gilbreth
We are pleased to announce that Gilbreth’s burst buffer scratch file system is now open for beta testing. This file system, which augments the normal cluster scratch file system, is comprised entirely of super-fast NVMe storage and a totally new set...
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Unscheduled data center outage
Several clusters have experienced network connectivity and/or power issues around 10:00am EDT. Engineers are working on assessing and analyzing the situation. Job scheduling on affected clusters has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We...
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Gilbreth Cluster Weekly Early-Access Maintenance
The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable beginning at Friday, March 15th, 2019 at 8:00am EDT, for weekly early-access maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by Friday, March 15th, 2019 at 5:00pm EDT. During this time, Gilbreth will h...