NSC News

• 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.