SciNet User Support Library

System Status

System status can now be found at docs.scinet.utoronto.ca

Mon 23 Apr 2018 GPC-compute is decommissioned, GPC-storage available until 30 May 2018

Thu 18 Apr 2018 Niagara system will undergo an upgrade to its Infiniband network between 9am and 12pm, should be transparent to users, however there is a chance of network interruption.

Fri 13 Apr 2018 HPSS system will be down for a few hours on Mon, Apr/16, 9AM, for hardware upgrades, in preparation for the eventual move to the Niagara side.

Tue 10 Apr 2018 Niagara is open to users.

Wed 4 Apr 2018 We are very close to the production launch of Niagara, the new system installed at SciNet. While the RAC allocation year officially starts today, April 4/18, the Niagara system is still undergoing some final tuning and software updates, so the plan is to officially open it to users on next week.

All active GPC users will have their accounts, $HOME, and $PROJECT, transferred to the new Niagara system. Those of you who are new to SciNet, but got RAC allocations on Niagara, will have your accounts created and ready for you to login.

We are planning an extended Intro to SciNet/Niagara session, available in person at our office, and webcast on Vidyo and possibly other means, on Wednesday April 11 at noon EST.

System Updates

Nov 12, Trilinos 11.4.2 module installed on GPC
Nov 8, Open Babel 2.3.2 module installed on GPC
Nov 7, Ncview 2.1.2 module installed on GPC
Nov 6, NetCDF 4.2.1.1 modules installed on GPC and TCS
Nov 5, HDF5 1.8.11 modules installed on GPC and TCS
Oct 30, Parallel netCDF 1.3.1 modules for intelmpi and openmpi installed on GPC, TCS, P7 and BGQ
Oct 30, GDAL 1.9.2 installed as a module on GPC
Oct 24, MemP 1.0.3 a memory profiling tool installed on BGQ
Oct 22, Gcc 4.8.1 installed on P7
Oct 15, Rsync 3.1.0 installed as a module on GPC
Oct 15, User-space MySQL module installed on GPC
Oct 7, Python 2.7.5 module installed on P7
Sep 13 FFTW 3.3.3 with openmpi support installed as a module on GPC
Sep 13: IntelMPI 4.1.1.036 installed as a module on GPC
Sep 12: Paraview server 2.14.1 installed as a module on GPC
Sep 11: Intel compiler 14.0.0 available as a module on GPC.
Sep 11: Armadillo 3.910.0, a c++ linear algebra library, available as a module on GPC
Sep 10: git-annex 1.8.4, a tool to manage files using git, available as a module on GPC
Sep 10: cmake 2.8.8 module installed on TCS
Sep 4: Storage offloading from BGQ to HPSS enabled
Aug 26: CP2K, a molecular simulations package, installed as a module on GPC and BGQ
Aug 15, Vim editor v7.4.5 module on GPC
Aug 6, GROMACS v4.6.3 module on GPC
July 22, Latest version of quantum espresso, a ab initio electronic-structure package, available as module espresso/trunk on GPC and BGQ