Hansen
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UPDATE As of 4:45 pm Tuesday, May 19, all the work noted below has been completed and both Hansen and Peregrine-1 have been returned to full service. Thanks for your patience. =-=-= The Hansen and Peregrine-1 clusters will be unavailable beginning at...
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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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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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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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Emergency Chilled Water Maintenance
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-water system serving the MATH datacenter. A major chilled water line has developed a leak, and must...
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During the maintenance scheduled for May 19-20 the Hansen cluster will be upgraded to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 6. Only those PBS jobs with walltimes short enough that they will finish prior to the beginning of this maintenance period are bei...
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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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The Hansen, Coates, and Rossmann clusters will be unavailable beginning at 8:00am on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by 5:00pm, Wednesday, January 8. During this time, these systems wil...