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FYI – upcoming electrical work

We’ve received word that GT-Facilities will be done some electrical work in the data center, unrelated to PACE, on Saturday, February 18 from 6:00am until noon.  They do not expect this to disrupt any PACE managed equipment, but just in case….

Keeneland GPU Tutorial Feb 20-21 @ Georgia Tech

The NSF Keeneland Project and the GT NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence will be hosting a two-day hands-on tutorial on high performance computing with GPUs at Georgia Tech on Feb 20-21.

If you or your staff/students would like to participate in this tutorial, please go to at http://keenelandtutorial.eventbrite.com to see the preliminary agenda and register.

For more information, please see http://keeneland.gatech.edu/2012-02-20-workshop

XSEDE12 conference Call For Participation, due Apr 13, Apr 25

Tutorial and Panel proposals due Fri Apr 13 2012

Paper and Poster submissions due Wed Apr 25 2012

https://www.xsede.org/xsede12-call-for-participation

https://www.xsede.org/xsede12

 

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) invites participation in its inaugural conference in the form of papers, panels, posters, visualizations, Birds of a Feather sessions, and tutorials.

The Call For Participation, including submission guidelines and key dates, is at: https://www.xsede.org/xsede12-call-for-participation

XSEDE12 — “Bridging from the campus to the extreme and beyond” — builds on the success of the recent TeraGrid conferences, offering a full agenda, networking opportunities, and all that the host city of Chicago has to offer.

The conference is located at the InterContinental Chicago (Magnificent Mile) and runs from July 16-19, 2012, with XSEDE meetings to follow on July 20.

Conference information is available at: https://www.xsede.org/xsede12

Registration opens in May.

We look forward to your participation.

 

Susan McKenna
Media Communications Coordinator for XSEDE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
1008 NCSA | 1205 W. Clark St. | Urbana, IL 61801
http://xsede.org
217-265-5167
Skype: smckenna111
mckennas@ncsa.illinois.edu

Upcoming quarterly maintenance – 1/18/2012

This is a reminder that all PACE-managed clusters will be shutdown on January 18 (Wednesday next week) for regular maintenance.

All currently running jobs will complete before the shutdown.  Any jobs submitted to the scheduler between now and maintenance day will either complete before the shutdown or wait until after maintenance to start.

Major items on the list this time around are:
– Improving scratch filesystem performance
– Increasing scratch filesystem size
– Complete the migration of our server infrastructure to VMs
– Further redundancy improvements to core of the HPC network
– Adjustments to VM hypervisors which hopefully improve login node performance
– Install a new binary for the scheduler to remove a limit to the number of queues (this shouldn’t change anything else, but mentioning it just in case..)
– integration of some new clusters into the Infiniband fabric (again, doing this on maintenance day just in case something bad happens)

For updates about maintenance, please check the PACE blog at http://blog.pace.gatech.edu/

If you have questions or concerns, please send a note to pace-support@oit.gatech.edu.

TACC-Intel Highly Parallel Computing Symposium

Tue Apr 10 – Wed Apr 11 2012

Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, Texas

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ti-hpcs12

Submissions due Wed Feb 15 2012

 

 

The TACC-Intel Highly Parallel Computing Symposium will take place on Tuesday April 10th – Wednesday April 11th 2012 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin, TX.

In the past year, the Intel MIC program has advanced forward towards the first commercial many-core co-processor, code named Knights Corner.

Accordingly, this symposium will expand to have two major focus areas: the Many-core Applications Research Community (MARC) for the Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) experimental architecture, and the emerging community around the forthcoming Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture family of products for productivity solutions.

In April, researchers from different fields will present their current and future work.

For SCC the focus will be advanced hardware architecture concepts implementation and how to use the SCC to explore tools and software that take advantage of the finer granularity data flow.

For Intel MIC the focus is on programming productivity for highly parallel applications.

The host site, TACC, will be the site of the first large scale supercomputer system based on Intel MIC in January 2013.

Interested researchers are invited to submit unpublished reports, both on work in process or new results regarding software for novel many-core hardware architectures.

While the Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) has served as common research platform for most MARC members, recent availability of the development kits for the Intel MIC family of products has expanded the community for many-core applications research.

Some of the concepts of the SCC will be realized in production form when the Intel MIC product line becomes available. Other interesting research on next generation many-core platforms is also relevant for this event.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Operating system support for novel many-core architectures
  • Dealing with legacy software on novel many-core architectures
  • Traditional and new programming models for novel many-core hardware
  • Experiences porting, running, or developing applications
  • New approaches for leveraging on-die messaging facilities

All authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work as either regular papers (maximum 6 pages) for oral presentation or short papers (maximum 4 pages) for poster presentation. Papers describing work-in-progress are also welcome.

Paper submission is possible through EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tihpcs11

Submissions are due Wednesday February 15th, 2012.

For additional information please check the event website: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ti-hpcs12

 

Dan Stanzione, PhD
Deputy Director
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin
dan@tacc.utexas.edu, 512-475-9411

PACE coverage during winter break

Greetings all, and happy holidays!

As I’m sure you are all acutely aware, campus will be closed next week! This includes us as well.

If you have troubles, please submit tickets as usual – preferably using our pace-support.sh script!  (See http://www.pace.gatech.edu/support.)  We will get to these as soon as things get back to normal in January.

If there is an immediate problem, please call OIT operations at (404) 894-4669 and leave a message.  One of the operators will be checking in occasionally and they have contact information for the PACE team.

Have a good break!

Possible network outage on 12/13

The network team will perform a maintenance next Tuesday (12/13) at 7:30am. This is not expected to affect any systems or running jobs, but there is still a ~20% chance that a network outage can happen, and last for about an hour. The team will be on site, prepared to intervene immediately should that happens.
Please note that a network outage will affect running jobs, so you might like to wait until the maintenance is over to submit large and/or critical jobs. As always, please contact us if you have any concerns or questions.

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Applications due Jan 10 2012

We are pleased to inform you that the application is now open for the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) at https://www.krellinst.org/doecsgf/application/.

This is an exciting opportunity for doctoral students to earn up to four years of financial support along with outstanding benefits and

opportunities while pursuing degrees in fields of study that utilize high performance computing technology to solve complex problems in science and engineering.

Benefits of the Fellowship:

  • $36,000 yearly stipend
  • Payment of all tuition and fees
  • $5,000 academic allowance in first year
  • $1,000 academic allowance each renewed year
  • 12-week research practicum at a DOE Laboratory
  • Yearly conferences
  • Career, professional and leadership development
  • Renewable up to four years

Applications for the next class of fellows are due Jan 10 2012.

For more information regarding the fellowship and to access the online application, visit: http://www.krellinst.org/csgf/