EVENTS COMING UP

Unless stated otherwise, all events take place at the SciNet Headquarters, Rm 235 of 256 McCaul Street, Toronto. All events below are free for users but we ask that you sign up (“enroll”) on the education website: https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/education.

• Compute Canada Research-Needs Survey

  Compute Canada (CC) is seeking input from the research community to help shape how research computing is provided to Canadian researchers for the next five years. A confidential 15 minute survey can be filled out at here.

  Compute Canada increasingly provides Canadian researchers with their computing services, so it is critical for us to hear about your needs.

• Wednesday October 16, 2013, 3:00 pm (Eastern)

  DEADLINE FOR 2014 COMPUTE CANADA RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROPOSALS

  For more info see the Compute Canada website

• Wednesday October 16, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

  SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING

  This time, we will have

  • TechTalk:MySQL on GPCby Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  • User discussion
  • Pizza!

  For more information and enrollment, go to the course website

• Wednesday October 23, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  SCINET DEVELOPER SEMINAR

  MPI 3: What is new? (Scott Northrup, SciNet)

  Participation counts towards the SciNet Scientific Computing or High Performance Computing Certificate.

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

• Wednesday October 30, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

  RELATIONAL DATABASE BASICS

  Participation counts towards the SciNet Scientific Computing Certificate.

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

• Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
  November 5 – 28

  INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH COMPUTING

  Learn about research computing even with little programming experience. Basics of programming in python, best practices and visualization will be covered in 8 lectures.

  This course can be taken as a “mini-course” by astrophysics graduate students and as a “modular course” by physics graduate students.

  Participation also counts towards the SciNet Scientific Computing Certificate.

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

• Wednesday November 13, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

  SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING

  TechTalk: Molecular and mesoscale simulations using OpenCL and LuaJIT (Peter Colberg)

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

• Wednesday December 11, 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  INTRO TO SCINET

  A class of approximately 90 minutes where you will learn how to use the systems. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers during these sessions.

  Participation counts towards the SciNet HPC Certificate.

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

• Wednesday December 11, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

  SCINET USER GROUP (SNUG) MEETING

  TechTalk: TBA

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

• Winter 2014:

  SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING COURSE

  Many computational projects start off with knowledge of the science you want to do, and with a bit of programming experience. It can be an arduous journey to get to a (maintainable) piece of code which you trust to compute the right thing. This course is aimed at reducing your struggle, and make you a more efficient computational scientist. Topics include well-established best practices for developing software as it applies to scientific computations, common numerical techniques and packages (so you don’t reinvent the wheel), and aspects of high performance computing.

  The course consists of three parts:

  1. Scientific Software Development & Design
  2. Numerical Tools for Physical Scientists
  3. High Performance Scientific Computing

  Each part consists of eight lectures of one hour. Students with limited programming experience are encouraged to take “Introduction to Research Computing” first (see above).

  Note that these parts can be taken as “mini-courses” by astrophysics graduate students and as “modular courses” by physics graduate students.

  Participation in parts 1 and 2 counts towards the SciNet Scientific Computing Certificate.

  Participation in part 3 counts towards the SciNet HPC Certificate.

  For more information (soon) and enrollment, go to
  the course website for the first part,
  the course website for the second part, or
  the course website for the third part.

SYSTEM NEWS

• GPC: git-annex is available as a module.
• GPC: armadillo 3.910.0 template libraries added as a module.
• GPC: Version 3.14.1 of paraview server installed.
• GPC: Python 2.7.5 installed as a module.
• GPC: Allinea MAP 4.1 profiler available on the GPC as part of the
  ddt/4.1 module.
• GPC: Intel compiler 14.0.0 available as a module.
• TCS: Compilers have been updated (patched).
• TCS: There’s now a cmake module.
• TCS: New versions of hdf5, 1811-v18-poe-xlc and 1811-v18-serial-xlc.
• TCS: New version of parallel-netcdf (1.3.1).
• P7: Python 2.7.5 available as a module.
• BGQ: openFOAM module.
• BGQ: Reminder: there is a HPSS/BGQ bridge so BGQ users can now directly offload their data to their HPSS space via the GPC archive queue. See wiki for details.

the main page:

ADDED TO THE WIKI

All new wiki content below is listed and linked on the main page

• Slides of the SNUG TechTalk on Git-annex
• Slides and recording of the SciNet Developer Seminar on “OpenMP 4”
• Instructions on using OpenFoam on the BGQ

WHAT HAPPENED AT SCINET IN THE LAST MONTH?

• September 10, Intro to the linux shell
• September 11, Intro to SciNet
• September 11, SNUG meeting w/techtalk on git-annex
• September 25, SciNet Developer Seminar on “OpenMP 4: What is new?”
• October 9, Intro to SciNet