College of Science MOTD, Purdue Univeristy

Know your BoilerKey, features to help prevent, solve lockouts

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

October workshop to cover high-performance computing with Purdue's community clusters

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:47:57 EDT

October 23, 2018 9:00am – 5:00pm

RAWL 2070

A free hands-on workshop from ITaP Research Computing is designed to help faculty, staff and students who want to use, or make better use of, Purdue's Community Cluster Program research supercomputers....Read More

There are some reports of Cascade slowness. ITAP is aware of the problem and is currently working on a solution to the problem.

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

ITaP Research Computing to offer Software Carpentry workshop on Oct. 8-9

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:45:09 EDT

October 8, 2018 9:00am – October 9, 2018 5:00pm
Rawls Hall, Room 1057

ITaP Research Computing will offer a free Software Carpentry workshop on Monday, Oct. 8, and Tuesday, Oct. 9, for researchers who are interested in learning and enhancing their research computing skills.

The event is open to Purdue students and faculty and anyone else interested in using high-performance computing in their research. It replaces the UNIX 101 and Clusters 101 workshops previously offered by ITaP Research Computing.

The workshop will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days in Rawls Hall, Room 1057. Space is limited so those wishing to attend should register soon. Participants should register through Eventbrite. New material will be covered each day, so participants should attend both days.

Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them skills for research computing. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. More information, including a schedule for each day of the workshop can be found here.

No prior knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop is necessary. Participants should bring a laptop (not a tablet or Chromebook) with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system that they have administrative privileges on. Participants should also install the specific software packages described here.

For more information about this workshop, email Eric Adams, who coordinates training for ITaP Research Computing, ewa@purdue.edu.

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Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

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Web Systems Administrator - Science IT

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:04:11 EDT

High Sierra update issues

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Science IT is recommending that all Mac users refrain from upgrading to High Sierra which came out September 25^th 2017.

There have been issues reported regarding compatibility of older applications, and file system changes. Please follow your favorite online threads and support sites for updates on this Apple issue.

Boiler Backpack Decomission Delay

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:44:31 EDT

Boiler Backpack Decomission Delay

ITAP E-Mail Announcement

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:40:12 EDT

https://www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/news/170719_email_scanning2.html

Spam Quarantine Notification

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Purdue will be changing to a new spam and phishing system that will scan all email starting on Thursday, June 29, 2017. The new system is designed to offer greater protection for incoming and outgoing email for faculty, staff and students.

With the implementation of the new system, the daily list of quarantined email that users have been accustomed to receiving will change. While the look is different, the purpose remains the same. Users need to review the digest, even if they never looked at the old version, for any legitimate email that was labeled as spam, and then release those emails. The digest message should arrive with the subject line “Spam Quarantine Notification.”

The new system also makes it easy to "safelist" senders whose email gets caught mistakenly so the scanning system doesn't quarantine mail from them in the future.

For more information Please go to: https://www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/news/170622_email_scanning.html

Email Issues

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Email sending errors? Update your outgoing mail server settings

Are you using smtp.purdue.edu to send email? Typically, users of Thunderbird, AppleMail, or third party email like GMail or Yahoo set to send-as your @purdue.edu address will use smtp.purdue.edu as your outgoing mail server.

Due to last week's spam service change, some people are no longer able to send email successfully.

There are two possible causes for this:

1. smtp.purdue.edu is not set to use Port 587 (TLS).

2. Your home ISP is using a set of IP addresses that are known to send spam. This could happen, for example, if your neighbor down the street has a compromised machine.

The solutions to these are straightforward:

For #1, if you are using port 465 (SSL), change that to 587 (TLS).

For GMail, look for the gear icon in the top right, go to Settings, Accounts and import, and Edit your <send mail as> account to update it.
For Thunderbird, right click on your account, go to settings, Outgoing Server, and change the port to 587.

For #2, use VPN to connect to Purdue's network, so you will bypass the home ISP network settings - there's nothing that Purdue can do to fix your home ISP networking problems.