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 Sept 10: Job arrays re-enabled (GPC/ARC/GRAVITY/SANDY) Sept 10: Email notifications by the scheduler re-enabled (GPC/ARC/GRAVITY/SANDY). Sept 9: Scheduler upgraded (GPC/ARC/GRAVITY/SANDY). Jul 25: qsub now checks your submission scripts (GPC/ARC/GRAVITY/SANDY). Jul 17: Paraview 4.1 server installed (GPC) Jul 16: VNC now works on arc01 as well as gpc01,2,3,4. May 26: gcc 4.9.0 installed as an experimental module (module load use.experimental gcc/4.9.0). May 23: CUDA 6.0 installed as a module and Nvidia driver updated to 331.67 on ARC and GRAVITY May 21: Allinea DDT/MAP updated on the GPC to version 4.2.1. May 15: 4 nodes have been upgraded with more memory (2 with 128GB, 2 with 256GB), see GPC Memory Configuration for usage details. (Previous updates)
QuickStart Guides SciNet User Tutorial GPC: General Purpose Cluster TCS: Tightly Coupled System Sandy: Intel Sandybridge nodes ARC: GPU nodes Gravity: GPU nodes P7: Power 7 Linux cluster BGQ: BlueGene/Q clusters Software and libraries Data management FAQ (frequently asked questions) Acknowledging SciNet  SciNet Training Webcasts	Tutorials and Manuals SciNet basics Linux Batch job management Programming Parallel programming GPU computing Performance tuning Debugging Math libraries (BLAS, LAPACK, FFT) I/O and databases Visualization Applications Manuals (compilers etc)
What's New On The Wiki May 20, 2014: CilkPlus - Getting Started (slides of the May 2014 TechTalk by Chris Szalwinski) May 16, 2014: Intro to SciNet May 2014: Video/Slides Apr 4, 2014: High Performance Scientific Computing Course 2014 Apr 4, 2014: Introduction to NetCDF4 binary files with Python, C++ and R (slides of the Mar 2014 TechTalk) Mar 12, 2014: Intro to GPU Computing Using CUDA (WestGrid Spring 2014 Seminar Series) Feb 28, 2014: Numerical Tools for Physical Sciences Course 2014 Feb 12, 2014: Introduction to the Xeon Phi (slides of the Feb 2014 TechTalk) Feb 3, 2014: Scientific Software Development Course 2014 Jan 22, Improved description of the Application Process for SciNet accounts Jan 15, 2014: IPython Notebook on GPC Previous new stuff can be found in the What's new archive.	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