What's new archive

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New in July 2013:

• July 11, 2013: SciNet Training Webcasts

New in May 2013:

• May 16, 2013: Teaching Material from the 2013 Ontario Summerschool on High Performance Computing Central
• May 13, 2013: SciNet Certificate Program details.
• May 1, 2013: Slides of "Monitoring Jobs at SciNet" TechTalk

New in April 2013:

• Apr 25, 2013: Slides+recording Performance and Profiling Course, April 2013
• Apr 9, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lectures

New in March 2013:

• Mar 21, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture III.2
• Mar 20, 2013: Slides of the SciNet Developer Seminar on C++11
• Mar 19, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture III.1
• Mar 17, 2013: Using Sparse Matrix and Solver Routines from Intel MKL by Deepak Chandan (TechTalk slides)
• Mar 14, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture II.8
• Mar 13, 2013: Updated Intro to SciNet slides
• Mar 12, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture II.7
• Mar 7, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture II.6
• Mar 5, 2013: Slides Scientific Computing Course lecture II.5
• Mar 1, 2013: Slides+recordings of the Half Day Parallel I/O Course

New in February 2013:

• Feb 28, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture II.4
• Feb 26, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture II.3
• Feb 14, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture II.2
• Feb 13, 2013: Slides of the HPSS TechTalk‎
• Feb 12, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture II.1
• Feb 7, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture I.8
• Feb 5, 2013: Slides+recording Scientific Computing Course lecture I.7

New in January 2013:

• Jan 31, 2013: Slides of lecture 5 and slides and recording of lecture 6 of the Scientific Computing Course.
• Jan 30, 2013: Slides and recordings of the BGQ Day
• Jan 24, 2013: Slides and recording of lecture 4 of the Scientific Computing Course.
• Jan 22, 2013: Slides and recording of lecture 3 of the Scientific Computing Course.
• Jan 17, 2013: Slides and recording of lecture 2 of the Scientific Computing Course.
• Jan 15, 2013: Slides and recording of lecture 1 of the Scientific Computing Course.
• Jan 9, 2013: Slides of the SNUG TechTalk on Interactive Computational Biology added to the SciNet TechTalks and Seminars page.
• Jan 7, 2013: Wiki page for the Scientific Computing Course, 2013.

New in December 2012:

• Dec 12, 2012: TechTalk on VNC (slides).

New in November 2012:

• Nov 27, 2012: Slides of the SciNet Seminar on "Massively parallel assemblers for massively parallel DNA sequencers" by Sébastien Boisvert and Élénie Godzaridis.
• Nov 26, 2012: Slides of the SciNet Developer Seminar on "Granularities and messages: from design to abstraction to implementation to virtualization" by Élénie Godzaridis and Sébastien Boisvert.
• Nov 14, 2012: Slides of the SciNet TechTalk on Gnu Parallel
• Nov 7, 2012: Intro to SciNet: Video and Slides
• Nov 5, 2012: SciNet TechTalk Blue Gene/Q: SciNet BGQ

New in October 2012:

• Oct 24, 2012: OpenACC: Slides from the Sept 19 SciNet Developer Seminar by Mark Ebersole from NVIDIA.
• Oct 3, 2012: Performance Tuning with the IBM XL Compilers: Slides from the Sept 18 SciNet Developer Seminar by Kit Barton from IBM.
• Oct 3, 2012: Perl page updated on how to setup local modules with cpan.

New in September 2012:

• Sep 25, 2012: Slides for the course: Workflow Optimization for Large Scale BioInformatics
• Sep 12, 2012: Intro to SciNet slides
• Sep 12, 2012: Sep 2012 SNUG TechTalk: Science=Data
• Sep 11, 2012: How to use parallel gzip (pigz) in HPSS
• Sep 10, 2012: How to use checksums with the new version of hsi

New in July 2012:

• Jul 11, 2012: Separate 'System Update' box on the wiki front page
• Jul 7, 2012: Updated FAQ entry to account for minimum 15 minute walltime
• Jul 5, 2012: Info on submitting jobs on GPU Cluster , now integrated into GPC scheduler
• Jul 4, 2012: Using PGI compilers supporting OpenACC and Cuda Fortran on the GPU Cluster
• Jul 4, 2012: PGI compiler manuals added to the Tutorials and Manuals page

New in June 2012:

• Jun 29, 2012: Slides+code for the Ontario Summerschool on HPC Central
• Jun 13, 2012: TechTalk Remote Development slides

New in May 2012:

• Intro to SciNet slides (May 9)
• ADIOS TechTalk, slides and source code(May 9)

New in April 2012:

• Updated c++ course slides (Apr 26)
• Updated SciNet User Tutorial (Apr 24)
• Updated Scheduler Information (Apr 20)
• Updated GPC Cluster Information (Apr 20)
• Updated GPC MPI Information (Apr 20)
• Slides of the TechTalk on Infiniband at SciNet (Apr 11)
• A FAQ entry on how to deal with ib memory problems (Apr 7)

New in March 2012:

• Slides of the fourth lecture of High Performance Scientific Computing (Mar 16)
• Slides of the TechTalk on the Intel Math Kernel Library (Mar 14)
• Software installed on the Power 7 Linux cluster (Mar 12)
• Homework set 3 for high performance part of the scientific computing course (Mar 4)

New in January and February 2012:

• Updates to the page for high performance part of the scientific computing course, including lecture notes and homework assignment (Feb 10)
• SNUG TechTalk about MPI tuning parameters (Feb 6)
• Slides of the lectures of Part II of the Scientific Computing Course (Jan 13-Feb 3)

New in December 2011:

• Information about part II of the Scientific Computing Course on Numerical Tools for Physical Scientists (Dec 16)
• SNUG Techtalk Dec 2011 Intel Compiler Optimizations (Dec 14)
• Updates on the GPC transition to CentOS 6 (Dec 5)
• Slides and video of the first four Scientific Computing lectures (Nov 4-24)

New in November 2011:

• Transition to CentOS 6 (Nov 2)
• Slides and video of the first four Scientific Computing lectures (Nov 4-24)

New in October 2011:

• Scientific Software Development Course syllabus (Oct 28)
• Currently installed modules for the CentOS 6 nodes (Oct 17)
• SNUG talk by Manuel Saldaña on MPI as a programming model for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computers (Oct 14)
• How to distiguish between CentOS 5 and 6 in your .bashrc (Oct 12)

New in September 2011:

• Slides of the SciNet presentations given at the SciNet GPU Workshop Sept 2011 (rzon, Sep 26)
• Slides of the SNUG TechTalk on HPSS (pinto, Sep 14)
• Slides of the latest "Intro to SciNet" session (rzon, Sep 9)

New in August 2011:

• Source Code, Slides of the 1-day intro to GPGPU using CUDA Course (ljdursi, Aug 29)
• SciNet fall class schedule announced (rzon, Aug 29)
• Update info on how to distinguish what cluster you are on in the .bashrc file (northrup, Aug 4).

New in July 2011:

• Improved help for the ish application, which can browse previously indexed directories on the hpss system. (rzon, Jul 11).

New in June 2011:

• The P7 Linux Cluster is ready for usage.
• HPSS, which will expand SciNet's storage capacity, is in its final pilot phase.
• The Acceptable Use Policy has been added and included into the Essentials page (rzon, Jun 17).
• A link to a 2009 INRIA Technical Report on existing linear algebra libraries for C++ was added to the Math section of the Tutorial page (rzon, Jun 14).
• Slides of Pierre de Buyl's TechTalk on f2py: Fortran and Python (rzon, Jun 8).

New in May 2011:

• Slides, videos and source code of the 5-day parallel programming course (rzon, May 31).
• A link to the manual of the parallel debugger DDT was added on the right side of the Knowledge Base: Tutorials and Manuals page (rzon, May 31).
• Slides of the May 2011 TechTalk by Peter Colberg on Scripting HALMD with Lua and Luabind (rzon, May 4).
• SciNet's twitter feed can be found at the bottom of the main wiki page (dgruner, May 4).

New in April 2011:

• Slides and source code of the Scientific Modern Fortran class (ljdursi, Apr 19).
• Slides of the April 2011 SNUG on User-space modules and packages (rzon, Apr 14).
• Installing your own modules (rzon, Apr 7).
• Installing your own Python Modules (ljdursi, Apr 5).

New in March 2011:

• Instructions on how to install optional R packages from CRAN (ljdursi, 29 Mar).
• Videos of the Scientific C++ class (rzon, 29 Mar).
• Updated techniques to installed user-space Perl modules (mjanicki, 16 Mar).
• Slides and sample code of the one-day course on Scientific C++ (rzon, 16 Mar).
• The temporary location of the standard error/output file for GPC jobs has changed; see the FAQ for details (rzon, 10 Mar).
• The slides of the two March SNUG TechTalks (by Abdul Mroue and Jaochim Harnois-Déraps) can be found on the SNUG TechTalks page (rzon, 9 Mar)
• Links to the videos of the presentations given at the Science Illustrated symposium (rzon, 4 Mar)

New in February 2011:

• Links to the documentation of version 12 of the Intel compilers were added to the Tutorials and Manuals section (rzon, 25 Feb)
• Documentation for using the Integrated Performance Montitor for MPI jobs on GPC and TCS has been added to the Introduction to Performance page of the wiki (ljdursi, 20 Feb)
• The slides of the two February SNUG TechTalks (by Seth Dworkin and Ramses van Zon) can be found on the SNUG TechTalks page (rzon, 14 Feb)
• Instruction on how to reset the password for your Compute Canada and your SciNet account were added to the FAQ (pinto, 3 Feb)

New in January 2011:

• Users can now request Network Switch Affinity for GPC ethernet jobs at runtime (northrup, 24 Jan).
• The slides of the two January SNUG TechTalks (by Sarah Rauscher and Bijia Pang) can be found on the new SNUG TechTalks page (rzon, 20 Jan)
• Updated and improved SciNet User Tutorial (rzon, 5 Jan)
• How to use Co-array Fortran on the GPC (rzon, 3 Jan)

New in December 2010:

• Tutorial and manual page now ordered by subject (rzon)
• A GNU-Parallel version of the script to run multiple serial jobs on multiple GPC nodes (rzon)
• Slides of the TechTalk on 'Profiling and Tuning' (ljdursi)
• Addition of ImageMagick software packages on GPC (dgruner)
• Scientifically validated CESM1 runs on the CCSM4 page (guido)
• The precise implementation of the scratch purging policy (pinto)

New in November 2010:

• How to use GNU parallel for running multiple serial jobs on a GPC node (rzon)
• How to setup local perl modules on the GPC (rzon)
• How to use job arrays, a way to submit similar jobs, added to the Moab Scheduler page (northrup)
• TechTalk 'Debuggers' slides (rzon)
• A number of module names have been changed on the gpc for consistency (rzon).

New in October 2010:

• Further enhancements to diskUsage. You may also generate plots of your usage over time (with the -plot option) (pinto)
• TechTalk 'Version Control' slides (northrup)
• Intro to Parallel I/O Course Tutorials and Manuals page (northrup,rzon,ljdursi)
• CPMD 3.13.2 installed on the GPC (dgruner)
• Slides, source code from one-day Intro to Practical Parallel Programming Course (22 Sept) posted on the Tutorials and Manuals page (ljdursi)

New in September 2010:

• The diskUsage command has been enhanced, and now you may get information on how much your usage has changed over a certain period with the -de option.(pinto)
• Tips on how to use ramdisk in combination with GAMESS (but note the disk and memory requirements on the job!) (dgruner)
• Intro to SciNet slides (rzon)
• IntelMPI 3.x has been deprecated (ljdursi)
• TechTalk 'Parallel File System and IO' slides (rzon)
• NWChem 5.1.1 installed on the GPC (dgruner)

New in August 2010:

• SciNet class schedule announced (rzon)
• Updated and improved SciNet User Tutorial (rzon)
• SSH keys and SciNet (ljdursi)
• How to find out how much disk space you're using and how much you have left (pinto)
• Hyperthreading with Gromacs (cneale)

New in July 2010:

• The wiki main page has been rearranged. Links to the manual and tutorial sections can be found on the left (Rzon).
• Pdfs of the SciNet GPU Workshop July 2010 (Rzon)
• A menu on the left side that stays as you navigate the wiki (Rzon)
• Started the pilot project on Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) (pinto)
• Added an Intel Whitepaper on Floating Point Consistency to the Manual Section (Northrup)
• Tips for running the climate modelling code CCSM4 on the TCS from the Peltier group (Guido)
• How to apply file access control to specific members of your group (pinto)
• More tips on using GAMESS(US) on the GPC from the Fekl group (Mzd).
• Explanation of what PolicyViolation means and why your job won't start with one (Ljdursi)

New in June 2010:

• Tips for using HyperThreading on the GPC (Rzon)
• How to trap signals in C, C++ and Fortran (Rzon)
• Printing to standard output in .bashrc can break lots of things. This and other tips in important .bashrc guidelines (Rzon)
• Instructions on using the ParaView Visualization Package on GPC (Ljdursi)
• Tips on using the Vasp code from the Polanyi Group (Imcnab)
• Updated tips on using Ram Disk on GPC jobs (Rzon)
• More sophisticated methods to run serial jobs on GPC (Rzon)
• `What's new' section on the wiki main page (Ljdursi)