NSC News

• 2013-04-19
  Course in Shared Memory Programming With OpenMP at NSC, May 27-28
  NSC is happy to announce a three-day course in shared memory programming using OpenMP open to all PhD students, postdocs etc. affiliated with a Swedish research institute, as well as NSC partners SMHI and SAAB. The course will be held at NSC between May 27 and May 29. Read more and register here.

• 2013-04-03
  NSC Summer Internship Competition
  There has been lots of interest in summer internships ("sommarjobb") at NSC for undergraduate students, so we have announced a competition! Apply for internship by submitting a solution to this year's problem concerning molecular symmetries in the Buckminster fullerene. Full problem description here. Last date for submission is April 21st.

• 2013-03-27
  Apply for Large Scale Compute resources
  The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, SNIC, have issued a Call for Large Scale Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources. The DEADLINE for applications is April 29, 2013, at 3 PM. Read more here.

• 2013-03-01
  PRACE Spring School on New and Emerging Technologies - Programming for Accelerators, April 23-26, 2013
  SNIC organize a Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) Spring School on New and Emerging Technologies - Programming for Accelerators. The school will be hosted by High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) in Umeå, Sweden. Expert presenters from PRACE Advanced Training Centers (PATCs) and vendors will combine lectures and hands-on sessions to provide an introduction to accelerator programming. The official language will be English. More information is available here.

• 2013-03-01
  Seventh PRACE Regular Call for Proposals
  The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) call for Project Access is now open. The call is intended for large-scale projects of excellent scientific merit and for which a significant European added-value and major impact at international level is anticipated. The call is open for both academia and industry. Deadline for submitting proposals is March 26. Allocations will be for one year starting September 3, 2013. The full text for the call can be found on the PRACE website.

• 2013-01-15
  Triolith Inaguration - January 24, 2013
  NSC inagurates Sweden's largest supercomputer Triolith on January 24, 2013. The event will start at 12:00 and take place at the Linköping University Club. Read more here.

• 2012-12-18
  Open Position: System administrator in cluster operation and large-scale storage solutions
  More information is found here. Last day of application February 15, 2013.

• 2012-11-16
  Triolith - the fastest supercomputer in Sweden
  Triolith achieved 303.7 Teraflop/s on the Linpack benchmark which rendered it place 83 on the November issue of the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. A rank that makes it number one in Sweden.

• 2012-11-15
  Triolith is now in full production
  All of the 1200 nodes in Triolith was taken into production on November 7 and the phase two extension is thus completed.

• 2012-11-15
  PRACE Call for Proposals for Tier-1 access (DECI-10)
  The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) invites European researchers to apply for access to powerful national (Tier-1) computing resources in Europe. This call is for allocations starting on May 1, 2013 with a duration of one year. It was opened on November 5, 2012 and will close at 12.00 CET on December 14, 2012. More information, instructions for applications and links are available here.

• 2012-10-24
  MPI training at UPPMAX
  UPPMAX host a SNIC Course: Message Passing with MPI, November 14-16, 2012. Read more.

• 2012-10-09
  NSC News 2012:3
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2012-09-25
  Apply for Large Scale Compute resources
  The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, SNIC, have issued a Call for Large Scale Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources. The DEADLINE for applications is October 24, 2012, at 3 PM. Read more here.

• 2012-09-25
  In-depth Training on Intel VTune Amplifier XE and Inspector XE
  NSC invites you to learn about how to optimize serial and parallel performance using the tool VTune Amplifier XE during a two-day in-depth training class. The training will also include how to detect memory and threading errors using the tool Inspector XE. The training will take place at NSC on October 22-23. Read more here

• 2012-09-25
  iRODS 2012
  NSC hosts the PRACE WP10 workshop iRODS 2012, September 26 - 28. Read more here.

• 2012-09-21
  Cloud Computing Course
  SNIC organizes a Cloud Computing Course at C3SE in Gothenburg on October 30, 2012. Dead line for registrations is October 20. Read more.

• 2012-08-27
  Triolith phase one is now in production
  The test pilot operation of Triolith ended on August 26. It is now in full production. Phase two is planed to be taken into normal production in November unless some unforeseen problems occur.

• 2012-08-22
  PRACE Preparatory Access Call for Tier-0
  We would like to draw your attention to the call for Preparatory Access Type C which includes code development with support from PRACE experts. Further information are given on the PRACE web page. There are no closing dates, proposals will be reviewed every third month. The next cutoff date is September 1st, 2012. If you need some extra information please feel free to contact PRACE directly or Application Experts at NSC.

• 2012-07-05
  NSC News 2012:2
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2012-07-04
  Patrick Norman - NSC's new director
  Prof. Bengt Persson's directorship of NSC ended in June and Prof. Patrick Norman is the new director from first of July 2012. His background is in theoretical chemistry and he works with methodological and software development.

• 2012-07-04
  Test pilots now on the new systems
  Test pilots were allowed on Triolith on Monday evening July 2, Krypton July 3 and Skywalker will follow.

• 2012-06-27
  NSC's three new systems are under acceptance test
  All three new computer clusters, Triolith for Swedish academic users, Krypton for the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and Skywalker for Saab have arrived to Linköping, been installed and are currently under acceptance test. The first, Skywalker, arrived on May 28 and the last, phase one of Triolith on June 14.

• 2012-06-27
  More than 200 million core hours to Swedish researchers
  The Swedish National Allocations Committee (SNAC) allocated a total of more than 200 million core hours to 25 proposals in the 2012 Spring Large Scale application round. A total of 35 completed proposals were submitted requesting 466 million core hours in total. Ten proposals were rejected and the applicants invited to submit Medium Scale applications instead.

• 2012-05-02
  NSC News 2012:1
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2012-05-02
  PRACE Summer School
  PRACE offers a summer school on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel® MIC Architecture, Lugano, Switzerland, June 21-23, 2012. Registration deadline: 11 May 2012. Read more.

• 2012-04-27
  In depth consultation opportunity with NSC and PDC application experts
  On May 9 at 14:000 there is an opportunity to meet application experts from NSC and Paralleldatorcentum (PDC) at KTH for in-depth consultation and support. Although the focus of this meeting is in-depth support, feel free to bring any type of support issue or complaint, should you have one. The meeting will be held between 14:00 to 17:00 on May 9 in lecture room Kepler, the physics building at LiU. Coffee and buns will be served on a first come, first served basis until we run out. More information can be found here.

• 2012-04-18
  Fifth PRACE call for proposals for Tier-0 and Tier-1 (DECI9) resources
  The call is for allocations starting on 1st November, 2012 with a duration of one year. It was opened on April 17th, 2012 and will close at 12.00 CEST on May 30st, 2012. More information, instructions for applications and links are available here.

• 2012-04-04
  Open Position: Climate Modelling Data Specialist at National Supercomputer Centre
  More information is found here.

• 2012-04-04
  Open Position: System Expert at National Supercomputer Centre. Earth System Grid Climate Data.
  More information is found here.

• 2012-03-23
  Apply for Large Scale Compute resources
  The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, SNIC, have issued a Call for Large Scale Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources. The DEADLINE is April 23 2012, at 3 PM. Read more here.

• 2012-03-19
  Fastest supercomputer in Sweden
  NSC will soon have the fastest supercomputer in Sweden. Triolith with 1200 compute servers from HP will have a total theoretical peak performance of 338 Teraflops. The HPC resource is funded by long term grants from the science council through Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) and will be used for simulations and analysis by academic researchers in many different scientific fields throughout Sweden. (LiU News, Press release in Swedish)

• 2012-03-19
  MPI course in Lund
  Center for Scientific and Technical computing, LUNARC, at Lund university offers a course on Message Passing with MPI. The course is open for SNIC users and will take place in Lund during April 11 - 13. Read more here.

• 2012-02-22
  Open Position: Application Expert in Bioinformatics
  More information is found here (in Swedish). Last day for application March 30, 2012.

• 2012-02-20
  Intel HPC training at NSC, 2012
  NSC welcomes you to participate in a three-day in-depth training on the Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector (ITAC) tool. The training is hosted at NSC on March 20-22, 2012 and will be given by the Intel expert Heinrich Bockhorst. ITAC, which is derived from Vampir is a powerful tool for analyzing and understanding your parallel code. For more information and registration, please see here.

• 2012-02-20
  EU-U.S. Summer School
  The third International Summer School on High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences will take place on June 24-28, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland. Deadline to apply is Sunday, March 18, 2012. For more information and application, please see www.xsede.org/web/summerschool12.

• 2012-01-10
  NSC News 2011:3
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2011-12-13
  PRACE newsletter
  The sixth issue of the PRACE newsletter is now published.

• 2011-11-14
  At NSC we are in an expansive phase and are now looking for:
  
  • One system administrator in large-scale storage solutions (systemadministratör för storskalig lagring) Ref.nr LiU-2011-01768
  • One system administrator for parallel cluster (systemadministratör för parallellkluster) Ref.nr LiU-2011-01769
  • One system developer with focus on storage (systemutvecklare med inriktning på lagring) Ref.nr LiU-2011-01770
  • One system developer with focus on security solutions (systemutvecklare med inriktning på säkerhet) Ref.nr LiU-2011-01771
  • One computational scientist for optimising HPC applications (vetenskaplig programmerare för optimering av HPC-tillämpningar) Ref.nr LiU-2011-01772
  Application deadline 16 December 2011. Read more details here.

• 2011-11-12
  Fourth PRACE call for proposals for Tier-0 and Tier-1 (DECI8) resources
  The call is for allocations starting on 1st of May 2012 with a duration of one year. It was opened on 2nd November 2011 and will close at 1600 CET on 10th January 2012.
  More information, instructions for applications and links are available here.

• 2011-11-01
  Fourth Swedish Workshop on Multi-Core Computing (MCC-2011)
  Linköping, Sweden, November 23-25, 2011. Early registration deadline: 4 november.
  http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/mcc2011/.

• 2011-09-28
  NSC News 2011:2
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2011-09-28
  PRACE 1IP newsletter
  The fifth issue of the PRACE 1IP (First Implementation Phase) newsletter is published.

• 2011-09-23
  SNAC Call
  The SNAC Call for applications for large scale allocations effective January 1, 2012 is now open. The deadline is October 24 at 3PM. Read more.

• 2011-09-16
  MPI and Grid Courses at NSC
  A beginners level course in parallel programming using MPI will be hosted by NSC between 26 and 28 October. Back-to-back with the MPI course, an introductory course on Grid computing and storage targeting new and current HPC users will be held 25 October. An application form and more information regarding these courses is available here.

• 2011-08-25
  New functionality in NSC Express
  It is now possible to request login accounts and view job accounting in NSC Express.

• 2011-06-27
  New functionality in NSC Express
  It is now possible to apply for Small Scale SNAC projects and LiU Local projects through NSC Express. Instructions regarding project applications are available here.

• 2011-06-13
  PRACE 1IP newsletter
  The fourth issue of the PRACE 1IP newsletter is published.

• 2011-04-08
  Our user portal NSC Express is now available
  Using NSC Express you can register yourself as a new NSC user, change your contact information, manage your projects, apply for project membership and more.

• 2011-05-03
  PRACE 3rd call for proposals
  The PRACE 3rd call for proposals for Project Access is now open and will close on 22nd of June, 2011. Please note that the current call is for access to the three available Tier-0 systems and includes also a Pilot DECI Call for access to several Tier-1 systems. Read more.

• 2011-04-08
  Our user portal NSC Express is now available
  Using NSC Express you can register yourself as a new NSC user, change your contact information, manage your projects, apply for project membership and more.

• 2011-04-04
  New computer room at NSC
  Akademiska Hus builds a new computer room for NSC to allow NSC to expand and provide even better computer resources in the future. Read further in Swedish.

• 2011-03-29
  NSC News 2011:1
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2011-02-21
  MPI Course at Chalmers
  C3SE in Göteborg is hosting a course March 16-18, 2011 on message passing with MPI. The course is given by Joachim Hein, SNIC parallel expert based at Lunarc and is open for all SNIC-users. Registration and more information

• 2011-02-15
  New Supercomputer for Reseach in Sustainable Energy
  Inauguration February 16, 2011 Press release (in Swedish)

• 2011-02-01
  3rd PRACE Industry Seminar
  SNIC-KTH host the 3rd PRACE Industry Seminar "Europe goes HPC: Industrial Competitiveness", March 28-29, 2011, in Stockholm. Read more.

• 2011-02-01
  PRACE Scientific Seminar
  PDC in Stockholm host the PRACE Scientific Seminar - HPC Boosts Science on February 21-23, 2011. The seminar aims to address questions essential to scientists from the user's point of view rather than from that of HPC experts. Registration and more information.

• 2010-12-22
  Work at NSC
  NSC is currently seeking one to two Expert(s) on Distributed Systems. Dead-line for applications 2011-01-31. Read more.

• 2010-11-24
  Work at NSC
  NSC is currently seeking an Application Expert in Materials Sciences. Dead-line for applications 2010-11-30. Read more.

• 2010-12-16
  Intel HPC Training at NSC
  NSC is hosting an extensive 3-day HPC training class given by Intel experts. Read more about it.

• 2010-10-27
  NSC News 2010:3
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2010-05-31
  The Molecular Dance of Water
  Prof. Michael Odelius at Stockholm University have used Molecular Dynamics to study how hydrogen bonds breaks and forms in a mixture of water and sodium perchlorate. The study was conducted in collaboration with experimental work performed at the joint SLAC - Stanford PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science. Read more at: Stockholm University (in Swedish), SLAC-today (with a nice video) or the original publication in Science.

• 2009-09-18
  NSC'09; PRACE Code Porting Workshop; SNIC Interaction
  Welcome to the workshop in Linköping, 13-14 October, 2009. Registration open!

• 2009-06-23
  NSC News 2009:3
  Read the latest issue of NSC News.

• 2009-06-23
  The MATTER consortium
  NSC is involved in the material science consortium MATTER aiming at research on materials of importance for solving energy-related problems. NSC will host a large computer cluster financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation dedicated to calculations within material science.
  Link to article in Swedish (extracted from http://www.fremtidensforskning.dk/).

• 2009-06-10
  NSC News 2009:2
  available as a PDF-file.

• 2009-03-27
  NSC supports Earth Hour
  Neolith, NSC:s main compute resource will have planned downtime Saturday 2009-03-28 between 20:30 and 21:30. System service will be performed during the downtime. Jobs that can't finish before 20:30 will remain in the queue and start when the downtime is over.
  WWF Earth Hour page
  

• 2009-03-26
  NSC News 2009:1
  available as a PDF-file.

• 2009-03-06
  Crucial materials science challenge solved.
  Peter Oppeneer and colleagues have explained the hitherto unsolved mystery in materials science known as 'the hidden order' - how a new phase arises and why. This discovery can be of great importance to our understanding of how new material properties occur, how they can be controlled and exploited in the future. They have performed large-scale computer calculations, to a large extent on NSC resources, to show how the 'hidden order' emerges. Their work is published in Nature Materials.

• 2008-11-06 Positions open at NSC. NSC is currently seeking an Expert on Distributed Systems with focus on Storage Issues and a Computational Scientist for High Performance Parallel Computer systems. Last day for application November 30, 2008.

• 2008-09-23 NSC News 2008:3 available as a PDF-file.

• 2008-09-02 Welcome to NSC'08, SUSEC höstmöte and TREFpunkt 19. NSC is proud to host a conference with three tracks on October 14 to 16, 2008. The NSC'08 Storage track will gather people with experience of building and administrating/maintaining storage systems. We will have a number of international speakers reporting on recent developments, planning and technical status regarding large-scale storage. Registration is open until 2008-10-01. Please visit the NSC'08 website.

• 2008-06-09 NSC News 2008:2 available as a PDF-file.

• 2008-05-27 SMHIs new supercomputer produces more detailed forecasts. The new supercomputer, called Bore, is now being taken into production at NSC. Press release (pdf-file in Swedish).

• 2008-04-01 HP-CAST NTIG A Nordic technical interest group in high performance computing using HP clusters held a workshop at NSC April 1-2, 2008.

• 2008-03-18 Call for Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources. The call regards applications for large allocations effective July 1, 2008.

• 2008-03-03 NSC News 2008:1 available as a PDF-file.

• 2007-12-06 NSC News 2007:4 available as a PDF-file.

• 2007-11-19 Intruder convicted by Svea Court of Appeal
  A 19-year old man from Uppsala was found guilty on Monday of having gained unauthorized access to the computer networks of several Swedish universities and colleges including NSC during 2004. Read more here .

• 2007-11-12 Neolith — the 23:rd fastest supercomputer in the world!
  30th edition of the TOP500 list of the worlds fastest supercomputers, Neolith reaches the 23:rd position. This is the highest position ever achieved on TOP500 by a Swedish supercomputer for academic use.

• 2007-10-17 Neolith — the new capability system at NSC
  The entire Neolith has been installed and is now being tested by NSC. Neolith will be taken into production later this autumn.

• 2007-10-17 Neolith — Inauguration
  On October 17, 2007, Neolith was inaugurated during LCSC by Mille Millnert, rector Linköping University and Pär Omling, Director Swedish Research Council. Presentation of Neolith — Movie of Neolith (60 MB)

• 2007-09-28 NSC News 2007:3 available as a PDF-file.

• 2007-09-04 Neolith — the new capability system at NSC Phase one of Neolith has now been in operation and used by selected test pilots about a month. The full system will be installed and taken into production later this autumn.

• 2007-08-15 Position open at NSC. System expert - Distributed systems. Apply for the position by September 1, 2007.

• 2007-06-20 Neolith — the new capability system at NSC The new capability system at NSC, which has been given the name Neolith, is now under installation and will soon be open for test users.

• 2007-06-08 NSC News 2007:2 available as a PDF-file.

• 2007-04-26 A new 60 Tflops capability system is soon ready to be installed at NSC
  One of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe with 805 compute nodes and with a theoretical peak performance of 60 Tflops will be delivered to NSC by Go Virtual and HP. The installation begins in May in our old computer building, and a part of the resource will be available for academic users starting from July-August, 2007. When our new computer building is ready in September we can accept the remaining, major part of the system and be in full operation starting from November. The resource is financed by SNIC (Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing) at the Swedish Research Council. Read the press release (in Swedish) for further information.

• 2007-04-17 Supercomputer improves the forecasts for climate changes With improved access to supercomputers, climate researchers can produce better forecasts for how the climate is effected by human activities. Researchers at Stockholm University, KTH and SMHI are given this opportunity through a grant of 25.4 MSEK for a new climate computer. More information follows in Swedish: Superdator ger bättre prognoser för klimatändringar Med större tillgång till superdatorer kan klimatforskarna göra bättre prognoser för hur klimatet påverkas av människans aktiviteter. Forskare vid Stockholms universitet, KTH och SMHI får nu denna möjlighet genom ett anslag på 25,4 miljoner kronor till en ny klimatdator. Anslaget kommer frÅn Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse i samverkan med SNIC (Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing) vid Vetenskapsrådet. Målsättningen med den nya beräkningsresursen är att förbättra klimat- och turbulensmodeller som bland annat används för att förutsäga framtida klimatändringar.

  -Anslaget gör att vi kan köpa en dator som har en kapacitet jämförbar med japanernas stora klimatdator Earth Simulator. Det innebär helt nya förutsättningar för att göra säkrare beskrivningar av processer som reglerar hur klimatet påverkas av utsläpp från transporter, kolkraftverk, industrier och andra aktiviteter vi människor ägnar oss åt, säger Erland Källén, professor vid Meteorologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet, och huvudansvarig för den nya resursen. Vid KTH sker forskningen inom Linné Flow Centre där Dan Henningsson, professor i strömningsmekanik är föreståndare medan docent Markku Rummukainen ansvarar för klimatmodelleringsverksamheten vid SMHI. Beräkningsresursen kommer tekniskt att skötas genom ett samarbete mellan NSC (Nationellt Superdatorcentrum) vid Linköpings universitet och PDC (Parallelldatorcentrum) vid KTH. Ytterligare information: Sven Stafström, föreståndare NSC, stafstrom@nsc.liu.se

• 2007-04-13 The 8th Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing, LCSC, October 16-18, 2007, Linköping, Sweden.

• 2007-03-12 NSC News 2007:1 available as a PDF-file.

• 2006-12-06 NSC News 2006:4 available as a PDF-file.

• 2006-11-09 Position as Expert in Storage Solutions open at NSC. Last day for application 2006-12-01.

• 2006-09-04 7th Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing. Welcome to LCSC 2006, October 17-18, hosted by NSC at Linköping University.

• 2006-08-21 New application software at NSC: NSC provides the general ab initio quantum chemistry program Gamess-UK 7.0 on SweGrid. The program is made available for a period of one year, after which we will consider prolonging the licence based on the experience of our users. We therefore encourage use of the program with feedback.

  For detailed information on how to run the program, see
  www.nsc.liu.se/software/chemistry/gamess-uk

• 2006-06-26 NSC receives 35 MSEK for a new capability high performance computer resource. The support is provided by the Swedish Research Council via Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). "This will place NSC among the top European supercomputer centers and will serve Swedish researchers with a computer approximately 3 times as powerful as the present top level national system. The new resource will be available starting from spring 2007" says Sven Stafström, director of NSC.

• 2006-06-20 NSC News 2006:2 available as a PDF-file.

• 2006-05-23 Positions open at NSC. Read more on: System expert - Distributed systems. Last day to apply for a position is June 16, 2006.

• 2006-05-10 Mozart provides insight to relativistic effects on molecular spectra. The large memory on Mozart enables quantum chemical calculations of molecular spectra with accurate treatment of relativity, and the inclusion of third-row elements in pi-conjugated systems is shown to make the the multi-photon (but not single-photon) absorption broad banded.
  J. Henriksson, U. Ekström, and P. Norman, "On the evaluation of quadratic response functions at the four-component Hartree--Fock level: Nonlinear polarization and two-photon absorption in bromo- and iodobenzene", J. Chem. Phys., in print.

• 2006-05-11 SONC-meeting: May 11-12 NSC hosts the biannual SONC-meeting where system admins from the six SNIC centra share experience and knowledge. The agenda which last from lunch to lunch focus on technical topics such as high performance networking, shared filsystems, grid technology and next generation computer architectures.

• 2006-04-19 NSC is currently participating in Service Challenge 4, a ramp-up exercise for the data-taking from CERN's new accelerator, LHC. The goal of the currently ongoing throughput tests is to demonstrate how data can be moved from CERN to a number of sites world-wide, at an aggregate bandwidth of 1.6 gigabytes per second. NSC is representing the Nordic region in Service Challenge 4, together with PDC in Stockholm, HPC2N in Umeå and NBI in Copenhagen.

• 2006-03-13 Mozart - the new shared memory system at NSC. The system is up and running and is taken into production according to the tentative plan:
  • Week 13: Transfer of SNAC users and projects from SGI3K to Mozart
  • Week 14: System is in production.

• 2006-01-30 New shared memory system at NSC. A new computer system with Swedens largest shared memory, half a terabyte, is now being installed at the National Supercomputer Centre (NSC), at Linköping University. The hardware in the new system consists of a SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 with 64 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 512 GB of memory. The system is financed by the Swedish Research Council via the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). Please contact Professor Sven Stafström, tel. +46 13 28 2536, stafstrom@nsc.liu.se for further information.