PACE is starting the lecture and training course offering once again.
Over the next two months, we are offering 4 courses:
For details about where and when, or to register your attendance (each class is limited to 30 seats), visit our PACE Training page.
CLUSTERS INVOLVED: emory/tardis, ase1
Hey folks,
We’ve gone ahead and replaced some disks in your storage as the type of failures they are generating right now cause dramatic slowdowns in I/O performance for the disk arrays.
As a result of the replacements, the array will remain slow for a period of ~5 or so hours as the arrays rebuild themselves to have the appropriate redundancy.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this problem as we have recently noticed a spike in the number of these events as of late.
A big Big Data event with many interesting speakers. Food and drinks will be served!
You can RSVP following the link:
http://meetup.com/Atlantas-Big-Data-Week-2014/
(needs a meetup account)
Monday, May 5, 2014 to
Parking is free in the deck.
Panelists
• Moderator – Bloomberg‘s Duane Stanford
• Delta‘s Russell Pierce, Managing Director of Customer Data & Analytics
• Home Depot‘s Steven Einbender, Lead Advanced Analytics Architect
• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta‘s Michael Thompson, VP of Business Intelligence
• AirWatch‘s John Marshall, CEO
• Weather Company‘s Eli Phetteplace, Director of Enterprise Data
Agenda
• 5-7 – networking and sponsor showcase
• 7-7:30 – introductions and intro to Big Data Week
• 7:30-8:30 – Keynote panel
• 8:30-9 – Q&A and closing remarks
Applications are now being accepted for Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates, a program designed to introduce high performance computing (HPC) research topics and techniques to undergraduate students at the sophomore level and above. The program introduces various aspects of HPC research at the SC14 Conference to increase awareness of opportunities to perform research as an undergraduate and potentially in graduate school or in a job related to HPC topics in computer science and computational science.
SC14 will be held Nov. 16-21, 2014 in New Orleans. Complete conference information can be found at:http://sc14.supercomputing.org
The Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates Program contains selected parts of the main SC Technical Program, with several additional elements. Special sessions include panels with current graduate students in HPC areas to discuss graduate school and research, and panels with senior HPC researchers from universities, government and industrial labs to discuss career opportunities in HPC fields.
Prof. Jeff Hollingsworth, co-chair of Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates, discusses the program and the need to develop the next generation of HPC professionals in an HPCwire podcast at: http://www.hpcwire.com/soundbite/toward-next-generation-hpc-professionals/
Applications must be submitted using the SC14 submission site at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/. The deadline to apply is Sunday, June 15.
ANSYS version 15 and Matlab version R2014a have been installed on PACE clusters.
To see examples of how to properly load and use the new versions, execute the following commands and follow the instructions provided.
$ module help ansys/15.0
$ module help matlab/r2014a
If you have any problems executing the examples given by “module help”, please contact pace-support@oit.gatech.edu
We have installed the most recent Mvapich2 stack (2.0rc1), which is available via module “mvapich2/2.0rc1”. Please see this changelog if you would like to know more about the improvements this version provides.
Also, please note that we have not started rebuilding any applications with this stack yet. If you think it will provide significant benefits for any existing application, please send us an email to pace-support@oit.gatech.edu and we will be happy to recompile that application for you.
Another quick note is that versions mvapich1.6 to mvapich1.8 are known to have performance problems, which are fixed with 1.8 (hint: search for “Georgia Institute of Technology” in the changelog). We are still keeping them in the repository for backwards compatibility, but please refrain from using these old versions as you can.
Happy computing!
Last night (2013/06/30), one of the storage servers that is responsible for many of the cluster login nodes encountered some major problems.
These issues are preventing the login nodes from allowing any user to login or use the server.
Following is a list of the affected login nodes:
cee
chemprot
cns
cygnus-6
force-6
force
math
mokeys
optimus
testflight-6
We are aware of the problem and we are working as quickly as possible to fix this.
Please let us know of any problems you are having that may be related to this.
We will keep you posted about our progress.
Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif.
Grace is a descendant of ACE/gr, also known as Xmgr.
$ module load grace/5.1.23
$ xmgrace
The new version is built with various compiler combinations and with fftw 3.3
after loading compiler’s modules, do
module load mkl/10.3
module load fftw/3.3
module load lammps/17Jun13
The Intel Cluster Studio 2013 XE software suite installation adds several new and useful tools for PACE users.
This installation includes updated versions of many currently installed packages. The updates include:
To use the new or updated software, please load whichever modules are appropriate:
For information on using VTune, Inspector, Advisor, or any of the Intel tools, see the Intel Cluster Studio XE site.