SciNet User Support Library

Welcome to the SciNet User Support library. Here you will find up-to-date manuals put together by SciNet staff and users, as well as links to external resources, to help you make use of SciNet resources for computational scientific discovery.

QuickStart Guides Essential Login Information GPC - General Purpose Cluster: Nehalem (x86_64) cluster running Linux TCS - Tightly Coupled System: IBM Power 6 system running AIX Storage at SciNet Data Transfer from SciNet Software & Libraries Job Scheduling System (Moab) A Performance Primer Frequently Asked Questions Performance & Debugging Tools: GPC Performance & Debugging Tools: TCS Acknowledging SciNet SciNet Accounts Application Process SciNet Usage Policy	Manuals Intel Manuals (GPC): C/C++: Intel (R) C++ Compiler 11.1 User and Reference Guide FORTRAN: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler 11.1 User and Reference Guide MKL: Intel(R) Math Kernel Library for Linux* OS User's Guide, Intel(R) Math Kernel Library Link Line Advisor MPI: Intel(R) MPI Library for Linux* OS Reference Manual IBM AIX Manuals (TCS): C: Compiler Reference, Optimization and Programming Guide, Language Reference. C++: Compiler Reference, Optimization and Programming Guide, Language Reference. FORTRAN: Compiler Reference, Optimization and Programming Guide, Language Reference. ESSL (High performance math library): Guide and Reference, Parallel ESSL Guide and Reference Application Performance Tuning and Optimization on POWER6 LoadLeveler: LoadLeveler Using and Administering Parallel Environment: Parallel Environment Operation and Use Adaptive Computing (Cluster Resources) Manuals: MOAB: Moab Workload Manager TORQUE: Torque Resource Manager
Tutorials SciNet User Tutorial Workshops given at SciNet: SciNet Parallel Scientific Computing Workshop, Aug 2009 - Slides and Video IBM AIX Workshop, Nov 2008 IBM MPI Workshop, Feb 2009 IBM Compiler Workshop, Feb 2009 Online Parallel/Scientific Programming Courses Virtual School for CSE -- Free online webinar-style courses, but one must register beforehand: Petascale Programming Environments and Tools, July 6–9, 2010 Big Data for Science, July 26–30, 2010 Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors, August 2–6, 2010 NVidia archived courses for GPGPU Programming Useful Links: LLNL MPI Tutorial - This tutorial by Blaise Barney was used as the basis for Kirk Jordan's MPI workshop at SciNet. It is well worth studying. High Performance Computing Book - An online version of an older O'Reilly book which covers the basics of (mostly serial) programming for performance. The most important issues today are covered here, and very clearly. How to Write Fast Numerical Code - a good introduction to thinking about performance.
User-Supplied Content Share your expertise with the SciNet Community! Running specific codes on SciNet machines Tips for performance or convenience on SciNet machines Running serial batch jobs (including GNU parallel) Using the ramdisk on SciNet's GPC User-space perl modules Packing up large data sets and putting them on HPSS Remote batch