Coming up:

(Unless otherwise stated, all events take place at the SciNet Headquarters at 256 McCaul St., Rm 235)

• Nov 8, 3pm: NRAC Call for Proposals DEADLINE More info at https://ccdb.computecanada.org.
  Note: This is the only call for allocations this year!
• Nov 10, 12 noon: SNUG (SciNet Users Group) meeting
  • 1/2 hour TechTalk “Debuggers & parallel debugging at SciNet”
  • User discussion
  • Pizza!
    Free registration at https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses.
• Nov 2, 16 and 30, 2:30-3:30 pm: Coast-to-Coast seminars. The fall 2010 theme is “The Marine Environment and Climate Change: Problems and Possible Solutions” More info at www.irmacs.sfu.ca/events/coast-coast-seminars.
• Dec 8, 12 noon: SNUG meeting with “Performance & profiling” TechTalk
• SciNet classes for next term are being planned. Among these will be: May 2011 5-day Parallel Programming course. OpenMP, MPI and more will be covered. The aim is for you to leave the course able to start parallelizing your code. Other possible courses are:
  • Scientific Programming in C++
  • Scientific Programming in Fortran
  • Parallel I/O, or “How do I use a single file in parallel applications?”
  • Visualization Most of these will be in the form of 1 day courses. Let us know if you have a good idea for other courses for the SciNet community! The final list of courses with dates will be announced in December. Registration will be through https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses. There will likely be a fee for the 5-day course to cover course material costs. All other courses and SNUG meetings are free.

Added to the wiki in October:

• Description of enhanced features of ‘diskUsage’, including plots.
• TechTalk ‘Version Control’ slides.
• Intro to Parallel I/O Course slides.
• Slides, source code from 1 day course “Intro to Practical Parallel Programming”.
• Updated module information for new and older software (see below).

System changes:

• Starting Nov 3, some application modules will be renamed for consistency. See https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/wiki/index.php/Software_and_Libraries#Naming_convention
• CPMD 3.13.2 installed on the GPC.

What else happened at SciNet in October?

• A SNUG meeting with TechTalk on “Version Control” was held on Oct 8.
• A one-day course on “Parallel I/O” was given on Oct 13.
• SciNet hosted Compute Canada’s TECC Meeting of technical staff of the HPC consortia across Canada.