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Purdue Research Computing now offers biocontainers – software containers designed for Purdue’s community clusters that contain more than 400 commonly used bioinformatics tools.
The adoption of MFA for University email has helped lower the number of compromised accounts reported to ITaP. Even though, users are still cautioned to remain vigilant for phishing and other attacks when using email.
Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer is helping unlock the secrets of space weather.
In June, Purdue System Security plans to enact a geo-block for email that does not use Office 365 and Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and is being sent from an international IP address. This is being done as part of the MFA deployment to ensure all University email is protected, including any sent outside of Office 365.
The update will modify the look and feel of the login page, incorporating the Purdue logo and increasing the font size to make features like the link to BoilerKey help easier to find.
Jingjing Liang, an assistant professor of quantitative forest ecology in the department of forestry and natural resources, recently led a team that produced the first ever estimate of the total number of tree species in the world – and they did it with the help of Research Computing’s Bell community cluster supercomputer.
Student workers from Research Computing and other areas of ITaP will present digital posters about their work at the Envision Center on Monday, April 25 from 1-5 p.m.
ITaP is partnering with Microsoft to host a series of webinars to help users get the most out of using SharePoint Online.
To combat email spear phishing and other cyber-attacks, emails sent to personal Purdue email accounts from external sources will soon appear with a warning banner designed to remind the recipient to use caution when opening links or attachments.
Purdue's Women in High-Performance Computing group is hosting a data processing training and a speaker series in April.
ITaP’s Collaboration team has partnered with Microsoft to provide access to a wide range of live virtual workshops and training covering a variety of topics involving Teams.
The Fortress archival storage system has a new tape library that has expanded the archive’s capacity by a factor of five, from approximately 50 petabytes of data to more than 250 petabytes.
A Purdue professor who searches for factors of very large numbers – work that is essential to keeping everything from nuclear weapons to personal banking information secure - is using new hybrid cloud capabilities between Purdue community HPC clusters and the Microsoft Azure HPC cloud in his hunt.
As part of a push to expand GPU computing capabilities to meet the needs of researchers working in AI and machine learning, Purdue Research Computing has added eight MI50 AMD GPUs and six MI60 AMD GPUs to the Bell community cluster – and they are already making a big impact on campus.
Purdue’s powerful new Anvil supercomputer is helping one researcher accelerate his biomolecular simulations and unlock new treatments for heart disease.
ITaP is warning Purdue email account users of a recent increase in spear phishing activities. A few recent examples involve individuals creating email accounts using services such as Gmail with an address, display name, and signature that impersonate Purdue personnel. The attackers then send targeted messages to individuals in the same department requesting information from the recipient.
Amiya Maji, a senior computational scientist for Research Computing, has been named a 2022 Fellow by the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program, which aims to foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability of scientific codes.
Starting in February 2022, all West Lafayette faculty and staff will be required to use Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication as part of the security measures for protecting their @purdue.edu email.
Campus SharePoint 2013 sites will be unavailable from 12 a.m. Monday, Dec. 27 through midnight on Thursday, Dec. 30, to undergo critical maintenance.
Faculty, staff and students can all report questionable emails with a simple click of a button – allowing security staff to combat the onslaught of malicious messages that could allow cybercriminals to access information like bank account numbers, academic and health data, and more.
Setting up MFA not only helps protect your own personal and professional information but should also drastically reduce the phishing attacks appearing in your inbox. In 2021, the West Lafayette campus has experienced over 4,200 compromised accounts, more than double the number in 2019. Most of the compromised accounts started with someone clicking a link in a phishing email.
Research Computing senior research scientist Carol Song is the co-principal investigator on a five year $15 million award from the National Science Foundation establishing a new institute for geospatial data-driven scientific research. The institute is part of the NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Big Idea, which is a national effort to enable new modes of data-driven discovery that will address fundamental questions at the frontiers of science and engineering.
Purdue chemical engineers have used Research Computing community clusters to develop a machine learning framework that creates various structural models of how a catalyst, aiding a chemical reaction, might be transformed under the reaction environment.
Purdue’s Envision Center will host the sixth annual Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (CAAV) conference on Nov. 1-4. Laura Theademan, senior operations manager for the Envision Center, is the conference chair.
ITaP is partnering with Microsoft to host a series of webinars to help users get the most out of using Microsoft Teams, Bookings and OneDrive.
West Lafayette faculty, staff and students are encouraged to add second layer of security to their email and Office 365 accounts now, but security tool will soon be required for all users.
ITaP is partnering with Microsoft to host a series of webinars to help users get the most out of using Microsoft Teams and OneDrive.
ITaP is partnering with Microsoft to host a series of webinars to help users get the most out of using Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and Bookings.
A Purdue research term worked with the Envision Center to design a virtual reality environment for mice that they could use to study how memories form.
ITaP’s "service status" page provides up-to-date information related to service disruptions, scheduled maintenance, and other issues affecting IT-related service offerings for the West Lafayette and regional campuses.
ITaP has partnered with Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company, to provide students, staff and faculty with the latest technology research and resources.
Update: Due to scheduling conflicts, the maintenance scheduled for this weekend is being rescheduled to a future date. There is no planned interruption of service for Sept. 4.
Research Computing is playing a leading role in the Global to Local Analysis of Systems Sustainability (GLASSNET) project, a collaborative effort to address sustainability issues related to land and water use that is funded by a $2 million award from the NSF.
Purdue’s new cloud-based composable platform, Geddes, is one of the top resources used by researchers on the Open Science Grid’s (OSG) Open Science Pool, a collection of computing resources available to researchers across the country.
Maintenance is scheduled from 4 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 7, to the career account infrastructure. During this time, users should avoid accessing their career account files and department file shares and may have difficulty logging into labs and other supported workstations.
Classroom upgrades include updated computers, more webcams, new projectors, new audio systems and new touch-screen controls. Instructors are encouraged to visit their classroom before the start of the fall semester to become familiar with the latest technology changes.
Power work scheduled to start at 8 a.m. and last throughout the day. Users should prepare by shutting down their systems.
The messaging tool Skype for Business is set to be retired at the end of July as Microsoft transitions the service to Teams.
An update to the Alertus emergency response notification system took place in late May, and users who have not had their University-supported computers connected to the Purdue network should reboot their machines.
An update to the Alertus emergency response notification system is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 22, and users will need to reboot their computers to ensure that they can continue to receive emergency notifications.
Prevention is the best way to weed out unwanted guests in Zoom meetings. Take control of your classes, online events and meetings with these Zoom security best practices.
Beginning at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 27, ITaP will be updating multiple databases which affects access to a number of services.
Deadline to apply for early user program for Anvil, Purdue’s new NSF Category I large capacity computational research platform, is April 30. A webinar for those interested in applying will be held March 12.
A network update to the PAL 3.0 and Eduroam wireless networks is scheduled to take place at 11 p.m. on March 4, and users may need to reset their wireless devices to access the network.
Microsoft announced today that Purdue will be one of five inaugural Microsoft Azure HPC and AI Collaboration Centers. Purdue will demonstrate best practices for using Microsoft’s Azure HPC cloud computing platform to augment on-campus supercomputers, including Purdue’s flagship Anvil system.
ITaP is partnering with Microsoft to host a series of webinars to help users get the most out of using Microsoft Teams and OneDrive.
A Purdue team has used the Gilbreth community cluster operated by ITaP Research Computing to develop a new algorithm that uses the power of multiple GPU nodes to accelerate the training time of machine learning models.
Apple users have until March 6 to update their Apple ID and recovery email address or risk losing the ability to use their Apple ID. The change is necessary as Purdue and Apple implement a “federated” system that will make it easier to set up and share Apple devices for classroom and other purposes.
From 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Saturday, Jan. 30, the password and BoilerKey services will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we communicate with peers and colleagues. Here are the top 5 email scams at Purdue and how to avoid getting duped.
Microsoft is retiring Skype for Business in favor of Microsoft Teams. ITaP began retiring Skype on Jan. 16 on machines supported by CSDS; devices supported by local IT departments will see Skype uninstalled on Jan. 30.
A new agreement between Purdue and the video conferencing service Zoom will allow all faculty, staff and students to access the platform’s education-level account for the spring 2021.
Update: Due to scheduling conflicts, the maintenance scheduled for this weekend is being rescheduled to a future date. There is no planned interruption of service for Sept. 4.