ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are pleased to announce that users can now keep track of their progress towards a SciNet certificate through their account on the Courses website.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Unless stated otherwise, all events take place in the SciNet Boardroom, 2nd floor of 256 McCaul Street, Toronto. Events are free for users but registration is required: https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/education.

In a Nutshell

SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING- Wednesday April 9, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

INTRO TO SCINET- Wednesday May 14, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING- Wednesday May 14, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

5TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON HPC CHALLENGES IN COMPUTATIONAL
SCIENCES- Sunday June 1 – Friday June 6 (Budapest, Hungary)

COMPUTE ONTARIO SUMMER SCHOOL ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING/CENTRAL- Monday June 9 – Friday June 13 (University of Toronto, St. George Campus)

SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING – Wednesday Jun 18, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

HPCS 2014: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM IN HALIFAX – Monday June 23 – Friday June 27

Details

• SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING
  Wednesday April 9, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pmTechTalk:
  Keep inventory of your data on different file systems with ISH
  by Ramses van Zon

  Want to be able to browse remote data on SciNet and HPPS as if you’re in a linux shell? With ‘ish’ , an inventory shell, you can use ls, cd, find, etc., to access and browse metadata of remote files and tar-balls. It allows you keep and peruse an inventory of your files stored in different locations.

  For more information and enrollment, go to the course website.
  

• INTRO TO SCINET
  Wednesday May 14, 10:30 am – 11:30 amA class of approximately 60 minutes where you will learn how to use the SciNet systems. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers during these sessions.

  For more information and enrollment, go to the course website.

• SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING
  Wednesday May 14, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pmTechTalk:
  Getting Started with Cilk Plus
  by Chris Szalwinski

  Intel’s Cilk Plus augments the C and C++ languages with three keywords for parallel programming on multi-core systems. These keywords inform the compiler that pertinent code may be parallelized. This talk will include code snippets showing how to implement map-reduce and fork-join patterns and will compare run times with those of serial code.

  For more information and enrollment, go to the course website.

• 5TH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON HPC CHALLENGES IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES
  Sunday June 1 – Friday June 6, Budapest, HungaryIn this summer school, leading American, Canadian, European and Japanese computational scientists and HPC technologists will offer instruction on a variety of topics, including HPC challenges by discipline (e.g., bioinformatics, computer science, chemistry, and physics), HPC programming proficiencies, performance analysis and profiling, algorithmic approaches & numerical libraries, data-intensive computing and scientific visualization.

  Compute Canada/Calcul Canada invites students enrolled in science and engineering fields at Canadian post-secondary institutions to apply for one of 10 (expenses-paid) spots allocated to Canada.

  The deadline for application has passed.

  For more information see http://www.prace-ri.eu/International-Summer-School-2014.

• COMPUTE ONTARIO SUMMER SCHOOL ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING/CENTRAL
  Monday June 9 – Friday June 13, University of Toronto, St. George CampusThe Compute Ontario Summer School on High Performance Computing provides attendees with opportunities to learn and share knowledge and experience in high performance and technical computing.

  As in previous years, the Summer School on High Performance Computing 2014 will have three installments:

  “West” May 26 – 30 Waterloo

  “Central” June 9 – 13 Toronto

  “East” July (TBD) Ottawa

  The format will be a four day workshop with mixed lectures and hands-on sessions on a number of selected subjects, such as MPI, CUDA, OpenMP, and Visualization (these will vary slightly depending on the location).

  This event will *not* be held at the SciNet Headquarters.

  Parts of this event may count towards the SciNet HPC Certificate.

  More details regarding the summer school will be announced here

• SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING
  Wednesday Jun 18, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pmTechTalk: TBA

  For more information and enrollment, go to
  the course website.

• HPCS 2014: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM IN HALIFAX
  Monday June 23 – Friday June 27The 28th annual HPCS conference, will take place in Halifax, June 3-27 (of which the first two days are tutorials). This year’s theme is `HPC Serving Society’. Sessions will focus on Bioinformatics, Big Data & Analytics, Computational Materials Science, Ocean & Atmosphere Modelling, Computational Chemistry, Data Cave Visualization, and more.

  We are seeking submissions for contributed works and posters relating to the conference theme. Submissions for contributed works will be due on April 30.

  More information is available at the conference website, http://2014.hpcs.ca.

System News

• GPC: Ffmpeg v2.1.3, an audio and video software solution, installed as a module.
• GPC: Python 3.3.4 installed as a module.
• P7: Vapor 2.3.0, The Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers, installed as a module.
• BGQ: Hpn-ssh, high-performance enabled ssh, installed as a module.
• GPC: Petsc 3.4.4,the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation, installed as a module.
• BGQ: OpenFOAM 2.3.0 installed as a module.
• GPC: Quake 0.3.5, a program to detect and correct errors in DNA sequencing reads, installed as a module.
• TCS: Cdo 1.6.1, a collection of command line Operators to manipulate and analyse climate and NWP model data, installed as a module.

What’s New On The SciNet Websites?

The SciNet Wiki can be found at http://wiki.scinethpc.ca, and the SciNet Education and Training site can be found at https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/education.

• Education site: Users can now keep track of their progress towards the SciNet certificates as they are take the courses. See the ‘Certificates’ tab on the education web site. For clarity, courses that count toward the certificates now have a course number.
• Wiki and Education: Slides of the Seminar on Intro to GPU Computing Using CUDA.
• Wiki and Education: Slides and Recordings of the lectures of the “High Performance Scientific Computing” mini-course.
• Wiki and Education: Slides of the TechTalk “NetCDF4 binary files with Python, C++ and R”

What Else Happened at SciNet in the Last Month?

• Mar 6: SciNet developer seminar on “OpenCL Middleware” by AJ Guillon
• Mar 12: SciNet User Group meeting with TechTalk on “NetCDF4 binary files with Python, C++ and R” by Bertrand Brelier.
• Mar 12: Introduction to GPU computing using CUDA
• Mar 11-Apr 3: Lectures on “High Performance Scientific Computing” (Part 3 of the SciNet Scientific Computing Course)