EVENTS COMING UP

• Wednesday November 7, 10:00 am – 11:30 am

  INTRO TO SCINET

  Learn what SciNet resources are available, how to compile your code and how to use the batch system, in approximately 90 minutes. Intended for new users, but experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.

  Sign up at https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/?q=node/80

• Friday November 9, 12:30 pm – 14:00 pm

  SCINET DEVELOPER SEMINAR

  By Fernando Perez, the inventor of the IPython Notebook.

  Because of the lunch-hour scheduling, we will also be providing pizza!

  For pizza planning purposes, please sign up at https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/?q=node/84

• Tuesday November 13, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

  COAST-TO-COAST SEMINAR SERIES

  “Oil & Fish Tails: Cuts to Canada’s environment and the changing face of Metro Vancouver’s oil and gas industry”

  Mr. Fin Donnelly and Mr. Kennedy Stewart (Members of Parliament)

  More info at http://c2c.irmacs.sfu.ca

• Wednesday November 14, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

  SNUG MEETING W/TECHTALK

  GNU PARALLEL FOR LARGE BATCHES OF SMALL JOBS

  There will also be pizza and discussion.

  Sign up at https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/?q=node/71

• Tuesday November 27, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

  COAST-TO-COAST SEMINAR SERIES: Dr. Rob Macdonald (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

  More info at http://c2c.irmacs.sfu.ca

• Wednesday November 28, 10:00 am 5:00 pm

  PARALLEL DEBUGGING WITH DDT

  For more information and sign up, see https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/?q=node/82

• Wednesday December 12, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

  SNUG MEETING

  TechTalk: TBA

  There will also be pizza and discussion.

  Sign up at https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/?q=node/72

• January 2013: GRADUATE COURSE IN SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING.

  Details to follow.

SYSTEM CHANGES

• GPC: perl-CPAN installed on the GPC.
• BGQ: The Blue Gene/Q is in beta mode. Several friendly users are testing the system. Time on this machine will be allocated by SOSCIP (see http://www.research.utoronto.ca/strategic-initiatives/southern-ontario-smart-computing-innovation-platform).

ADDED TO THE WIKI

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

• BGQ system at SciNet: Slides on the Oct 10 SNUG TechTalk by Scott Northrup.
• For our friendly users of the BGQ, there is now a continually updated wiki page to serve as a BGQ Quickstart.
• OpenACC: Slides from the Sept 19 SciNet Developer Seminar by Mark Ebersole from NVIDIA.
• Performance Tuning with the IBM XL Compilers: Slides from the Sept 18 SciNet Developer Seminar by Kit Barton from IBM.
• Perl page updated on how to setup local modules with cpan.

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED AT SCINET IN OCTOBER?

• October 1: Maintenance downtime.
• October 10: Intro to the Linux shell
• October 10: SNUG meeting w/Techtalk about the new BGQ system.
• October 18, 19 and 22: Power-related downtime
• October 23: SciNet Developer Seminar on the Julia language by Michael Nolta (CITA, Toronto).