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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 Dec 12: BGQ devel system upgraded to 2 full racks (32,768 cores). Nov 7: Archive jobs are on hold because the system is nearing capacity. They will run only once they are reviewed and released by SciNet staff (HPSS) Nov 6: Python 2.7.8, a popular scripting environment, installed as module (GPC) Oct 30: BGQ devel system upgraded from half a rack (8,192 cores) to 1 full rack (16,384 cores) Oct 17: R 3.1.1, a statistical package, installed as a module (GPC) Oct 7: Bedtools, a powerful toolset for genome arithmetic, installed as a module (GPC) Oct 2: Parallel Debugger DDT upgraded to version 4.2.1 (TCS/P7) (Previous updates)
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What's New On The Wiki Nov 2014: Research Computing with Python 2014 lectures 1-4 Sept 2014: Tip on reducing virtual memory consumption for multithreaded programs Sept 2014: Improved information on the Python versions installed on the GPC, and which modules are included in each version. Sept 2014: Description on using job arrays on the GPC on the Scheduler page. Sept 2014: Tkinter instructions, slides and code for the TkInter workshop held in September. Sept 2014: Instructions on using Hadoop (for the Hadoop workshop held in September). 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 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