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 (GPC)
Nov 8, Open Babel 2.3.2 module installed (GPC)
Nov 7, Ncview 2.1.2 module installed (GPC)
Nov 6, NetCDF 4.2.1.1 modules installed (GPC)
Nov 5, HDF5 1.8.11 modules installed (GPC)
Oct 30, GDAL 1.9.2 installed as a module (GPC)
Oct 30, Parallel netCDF 1.3.1] modules for intelmpi and openmpi installed (GPC)
Oct 24, MemP 1.0.3 a memory profiling tool installed (BGQ)
Oct 15, rsync 3.1.0 installed as a module (GPC)
Oct 15, User-space MySQL module installed (GPC)
Sep 13 FFTW 3.3.3 with openmpi support installed as a module (GPC)
Sep 13: IntelMPI 4.1.1.036 installed as a module (GPC)
Sep 12: Paraview server 2.14.1 installed as a module (GPC)
Sep 11: Intel compiler 14.0.0 available as a module (GPC).
Sep 11: Armadillo 3.910.0, a c++ linear algebra library, available as a module (GPC)
Sep 10: git-annex 1.8.4, a tool to manage files using git, available as a module (GPC)
Sep: Storage offloading from BGQ to HPSS enabled (HPSS)
Sep 3, Parallel and serial HDF5 library v1.8.11 modules (TCS)
Aug 26: CP2K, a molecular simulations package, installed as a module (GPC)
Aug 15, Vim editor v7.4.5 module (GPC)
Aug 6, GROMACS v4.6.3 module (GPC)
July 22, Latest version of quantum espresso, a ab initio electronic-structure package, available as module espresso/trunk (GPC, BGQ)