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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 Apr 2: Cdo 1.6.1, a collection of command line Operators to manipulate and analyse climate and NWP model data, installed (TCS) Apr 2: Quake 0.3.5, a program to detect and correct errors in DNA sequencing reads, installed (GPC) Apr 2: OpenFOAM 2.3.0 installed (BGQ) Mar 12: Petsc 3.4.4, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation, installed (GPC) Mar 11: Hpn-ssh, high-performance enabled ssh, installed (BGQ) Mar 7: Vapor 2.3.0, Tge Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers, installed (P7) Mar 4: Python 3.3.4 installed (GPC) Mar 3: Ffmpeg v2.1.3, an audio and video software solution, installed (GPC) Feb 28: Cuda 5.5 module installed (ARC/Gravity) Feb 28: New version of valgrind modules installed (valgrind/3.9.0_intelmpi and valgrind/3.9.0_openmpi) (GPC) Feb 25: New version of CP2K (latest trunk) installed as a module (GPC). Feb 19: Ray 2.3.1 installed as a module (GPC) Feb 19: Ghostscript added to the Xlibraries module (GPC) Jan 24: As a precaution, emails by the Moab/Torque scheduler have been disabled because of a potential security vulnerability (GPC). (Previous updates)
QuickStart Guides Tutorials and Manuals 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	What's New On The Wiki 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.
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