COMING UP

• Wed Jun 8, 12:00 noon: SNUG (SCINET USERS GROUP) MEETING
  • TechTalk by Pierre de Buyl (Chemical Physics Theory Group) on “f2py” (a Fortran-Python interface).
  • User discussion
  • Pizza!

  This event takes place at the SciNet Headquarters, Rm 235 of 256 McCaul Street, Toronto.

  Sign up if you are planning to come (so we won’t run out of pizza), at https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/?q=node/26

• June 13-17: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM 2011

  HPCS2011 is a multidisciplinary conference that focuses on research involving High Performance Computing and its application.

  This year it is given in Montreal, and focuses on HPC in medical science.

  The actual symposium is from June 15 to 17. There are very worthwhile tutorial sessions on the two days before.

  More info can be found at http://2011.hpcs.ca.

SYSTEM CHANGES

• DDT, a parallel debugging program from Allinea, has been installed on the GPC, TCS, and ARC. DDT stands for “Distributed Debugging Tool” and is available as the module “ddt”. It supports debugging OpenMP, MPI and CUDA applications in a graphical environment.
• In the future, we may have to move your /home/USER and /scratch/USER directories to new locations. To prepare for this, you should try to avoid using absolute paths in your scripts and programs, i.e., use relative paths, or use ~ or ${HOME} instead of /home/USER.

ADDED TO THE WIKI IN MAY

(All new wiki content below is listed and linked on the main page: http://wiki.scinet.utoronto.ca/wiki/index.php/SciNet_User_Support_Library#What.27s_New_On_The_Wiki)

• Slides of the May 2011 SNUG TechTalk by Peter Colberg on Lua.
• Slides, videos, and source code of the 5-day parallel programming course given in May.
• A link to the manual of the parallel debugger DDT (on the right side of the Tutorials and Manuals page).
• Our twitter feed can be found at the bottom of the main wiki page.

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED AT SCINET IN MAY?

• A SNUG meeting was held on May 4, with a TechTalk by Peter Colberg on “Scripting HALMD with Lua and Luabind”
• On May 9-13, an intensive 5-day course “Introduction to Practical Parallel Programming” was given.
• We had a few chiller failures. The main reasons of the failures have been found, but there were side effects that still caused issues.