NSC News Archive 2002-2005

NSC News Archive 2005

• 2005-10-04 LCSC and SNIC Interaction current programme now available. On-line registration is open for the Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing (LCSC)& SNIC Interaction.
• 2005-10-15 NSC Newsletter nr 23 availableelectronically.
• 2005-09-01 Registration open for the 6th Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing (LCSC) & 2nd User Meeting for Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC Interaction).
• 2005-08-23 SweCLICS inauguration. SweCLICS is a cooperation project between NSC, The Rossby Centre at SMHI and the Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University, for a new dedicated climate computer resource. A donation from The Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation has made possible the first phase of SweCLICS, the super computer Tornado inaugurated by Lena Sommestad, the Swedish Minister for the Environment on August 23rd at Linköping University. Read more about the event.
• 2005-08-05 A book of interest to the NSC user community has been published: "Accuracy and Reliability in Scientific Computing" edited by Bo Einarsson (previously numerical analyst at NSC). Further information and ordering information is available from the SIAM web site. The book is also available from Amazon.
• 2005-06-15 NSC Newsletter nr 22 available electronically.
• 2005-04-28 Announcement 6th Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing (LCSC) & 2nd User Meeting for Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC Interaction).
• 2005-03-16 NSC Newsletter nr 21 available electronically.
• 2005-03-15 Call for Proposals for Usage of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources. Deadline for application 02 May 2005 at 16:00.
• 2005-02-14 Supercomputer Enhances Reliability of Weather Predictions. Sweden's new supercomputer for weather forecasting will greatly improve prediction reliability. An enhanced and powerful computational package, tailored especially for the needs of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI, is now installed at the National Supercomputer Centre, NSC, sited at Linköping University. Read more in the media release.
• 2005-01-10 -- 18.The NGSSC Course in Grid Computing was held at Linköping University.

• 2004-12-16 NSC Newsletter nr 20 available electronically.
• 2004-10-18--20 The Fifth Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing LCSC was this year co-located with the Workshop on Nordic Grid Neighbourhood (NGN).
• 2004-10-01 Call for Proposals for Usage of Swedish High Performance Computing Resourc\ es. Deadline for application 31 October 2004 at 16:00.
• 2004-10-01 NSC Newsletter nr 19 available electronically.
• 2004-09-20 The HPC User Survey. Please state your opinion of High Performance Computing Services in Sweden by completing the HPC User Survey, issued on behalf of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC): http://www.snic.vr.se/SNIC_Evaluation. Deadline for submission: September 24.
• 2004-07-09 Monolith and SGI3800 are now back in service after the security breach, for further information see the Systems Log.
• 2004-07-01 New user guide available electronically.
• 2004-06-30 The SGI3k machine is back in service. However, for security reasons all users have been issued new passwords by paper mail again. These letters were sent 2004-06-29. For Monolith the timeplan is not yet clear. The system is still down for analysis and verification following the last intrusion, and will also go through a hardening process. It will likely remain unavailable for the rest of this week, at least. Our users will receive further information as we have it. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.
• 2004-06-29 SNAC-projects beginning 2004-07-01 and new NSC-users connected to them. NSC users who have been awarded time on NSC resources through SNAC are invited to contact support in order to be transferred to their new project. Brand new NSC users should fill in an Agreement form and send it by regular mail to NSC. If you have been awarded time on Swegrid, please see www.swegrid.se for information on how to gain access.
• 2004-06-23 New intrusion. Another intrusion has been detected. NSC systems are currently undergoing integrity verification. We ask all users to kindly verify that their ssh clients have not been tampered with. If you don't know how to do this yourself, please contact your system administrator.
• 2004-06-16 Security breach - accounts disabled. During the last few days a number of intrusions have been detected on NSC systems. User accounts have been accessed using stolen passwords. In a couple of cases the intruder has managed to gain elevated priviliges. Apparently the passwords were initially stolen from users who used ssh to log in to NSC systems from compromised computers on Chalmers. Due to the widespread nature of this security breach, all accounts on all NSC systems will be disabled. New passwords will be sent out by (paper) mail. More information on that process will be available as we work out the details. If you have used ssh (or scp) to access other systems from NSC systems the last few days, you are strongly advised to change your password on those other systems. Also, please inform the administrators of those systems about this issue. (Refer them to support@nsc.liu.se for further technical information.) We understand that these measures will be a great inconvenience to our users. However, we have to treat security issues in the strictest possible fashion, and we hope for your understanding.
• 2004-06-09 NSC Newsletter nr 18 available electronically.
• 2004-06-02 NSC Progress Report 2003
  The NSC Progress Report 2003 is available as a pdf-file.
• 2004-05-07 SNIC Interaction 2004
  The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) invites to its first annual users' conference SNIC Interaction 2004, 2-3 June 2004.
• 2004-04-27 Positions open at NSC
  Work with leading-edge computers and applications at NSC. Two positions are available. The first position: Work with application support in high performance computing/Numerical expert. The second position: System expert - Distributed systems. Last day for application: May 24, 2004.
• 2004-03-31 SweCLICS
  The Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation have donated 5.4 million SEK to NSC for the building of a new powerful computer, specially designed for climate simulations. Research on the new computer facility will be carried out in cooperation between Stockholm University and SMHI. For further information please contact: Professor Sven Stafström, e-mail stafstrom@nsc.liu.se, phone 013-282536, 013-281352: Associate professor Markku Rummukainen, Rossby Centre, SMHI. E-mail markku.rummukainen@smhi.se, phone 011-4958605, 0708-186889, or professor Erland Källén, Meteorological department, Stockholm University, e-mail erland@misu.su.se, phone 08-162396.
• 2004-03-17 Call for Proposals for Usage of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources. Deadline for application 3 May 2004 at 16:00.
• 2004-03-09 NSC Newsletter nr 17 is available electronically.
• 2004-01-28 GaussView 3 has been installed on Monolith.
• 2004-01-26 We now offer Gaussian 03 to our users on the computers SGI 3800 and Monolith.
• 2004-01 Swegrid is a national Data GRID test bed of computing and storage facilities at six sites: NSC (Linköping), PDC (Stockholm), HPC2N (Umeå), UPPMAX (Uppsala), LUNARC (Lund), and UNICC (Göteborg). The resources are allocated by the Swedish National Allocation Committee (SNAC). Further information is available on the Swegrid site http://www.swegrid.se/.
• 2004-01-22 The NSC User Guides have been updated.

• 2003-12-18 Sven Stafström is appointed director of NSC starting January 2004.
• 2003-12-08 The latest NSC Newsletter "Nytt från NSC16" available also electronically.
• 2003-11-16 NSC surmounts the teraflop limit. Monolith now delivers 1132 GFlops on the Linpack benchmark. This gives Monolith a rating of #103 on the 22:nd edition of TOP500 list of world's fastest supercomputers. Sweden is now one of twenty countries that has a computer system with more than one teraflop sustained performance on the Linpack benchmark.
• 2003-10-22--24 4th Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing, Clusters for High Performance Computing and GRID Solutions.
• 2003-10-03 Call for Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources, deadline 31 October 2003 at 16:00 hours.
• 2003-10-01 The latest NSC Newsletter "Nytt från NSC 15" available also electronically.
• 2003-09-24 FFTW 2.1.5 is now installed on Monolith, overwriting the previous older release. The libraries are in /usr/local/lib, include files in /usr/local/include and the complete package in /usr/local/fftw-2.1.5. You can find the Fortran interface file fftw_f77.i in /usr/local//fftw-2.1.5/fortran. For information on how to use FFTW, please see http://www.fftw.org/.
• 2003-09-04 NSC provides additional computer resources to Saab AB and SMHI. NSC has recently designed and installed 3 new PC-clusters to its partners Saab and SMHI. The two clusters at Saab consists each of 32 compute nodes and are dedicated to aerodynamic and electromagnetic computations. The 10 node cluster at SMHI is used for air pollution management and incident analysis. NSC has also provided Saab with a new SGI 0350 system. This 32 processor system has 32 GByte of shared memory and will be used for memory intense simulations in structural mechanics, flow modelling and electromagnetics.
• 2003-08-26 We have the Edge 3.1 flow modelling software from FOI available on Monolith.
• 2003-06-26 Fyra svenska superdatorer pö nya 500-listan.
• 2003-06-23 Monolith is now at place 62 on the TOP 500 Supercomputer Sites listing, number 15 in Europe and number 2 in the Nordic countries.
• 2003-06-22 The NSC User Guides have been updated.
• 2003-06-19 The latest NSC Newsletter "Nytt från NSC 14" available also electronically.
• 2003-06-17 Gaussian 03 is now available on the SGI 3800.
• 2003-06-10 The 2002 Progress report available also electronically.
• 2003-04-30 The FLUENT 6.1 software has been installed on Monolith, but only for users within Linköping University. See the Software/Physics page.
• 2003-04-14 For the Search function we have now switched to the Google Advanced Search within the domain nsc.liu.se.
• 2003-04-10 The latest NSC Newsletter "Nytt från NSC 13" available also electronically.
• 2003-04-04 Call for Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources, deadline 2 May 2003 at 16:00 hours.
• 2003-03-09 SNIC is building SweGrid.
• 2003-03-09 NSC's cluster Bris (located at SMHI) is now the main system for the SMHI weather forecast production. Bris is a 36 processor large cluster with similar hardware as Monolith.
• 2003-03-07 Accounting on Monolith has been updated. One node hour equals two CPU hours.
• 2003-01-31 The Cray T3E service at NSC was discontinued.
• 2003-01-27 Today we opened the Monolith cluster for full scale service.
• 2003-01-15 The list of projects has been updated to include the projects awarded time by SNAC in November 2002.
• 2003-01-15 The latest NSC Newsletter "Nytt från NSC 12" available also electronically.
• 2003-01-11 The NAG Libraries are no longer available on the Cray T3E.

• 2002-12-27 The NAG C Header Files for the NAG Fortran 77 Library on the SGI 3800 have been updated to Mark 20.
• 2002-12-16 Deadline for the National Graduate School in Scientific Computing, NGSSC, recruiting additional Ph.D. students.
• 2002-11-15 The new TOP 500 listing is now available. Monolith is at place 51 on the TOP 500 Supercomputer Sites listing, number 14 in Europe and number 2 in the Nordic countries.
• 2002-11-07 Deadline for application to do HPC research in Scotland.
• 2002-11-01 Deadline for Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources.
• 2002-10-24 Inauguration of NSC's new 400-processor Beowulf "Monolith".
• 2002-10-24--25 3rd Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing, Clusters for High Performance Computing and GRID Solutions.
• 2002-10-23 The Race to Petaflops: Getting it Right, lecture by Thomas Sterling, CalTech, USA.
• 2002-10-22 The latest NSC Newsletter "Nytt från NSC" available also electronically.
• 2002-10-18 The 2000-2001 Progress report available also electronically.
• 2002-10-16--18 NSC arranged an invited "Tuning and optimization course for the SGI 3800".
• 2002-10-09 Call for Proposals for use of Swedish High Performance Computing Resources.
• 2002-09-23 Matlab is now available both on SGI 3800 and Lustig.
• 2002-08-28 NSC builds the most powerful computer in Sweden. (Article in Swedish in the local newspaper Östgöta Correspondenten).
• 2002-08-26 NSC builds the most powerful computer in Sweden. (Press release in Swedish)
• 2002-08-07 Deadline for application to do HPC research in Scotland.
• 2002-08-03 Gaussian Meeting at WATOC '02 in Switzerland.
• 2002-07-08 The NSC User Guides have been updated to the July 2002 version.
• 2002-07-08 The computer "Lustig" was temporarily available without the graphic pipes. The batch queues were open day and night.
• 2002-07-01 NSC has expanded the SGI 3800 system to 128 processors and 128 GBytes of memory! The computer became unstable and has crashed many times during July. The last problem was fixed July 25.
• 2002-05-15 Article in Swedish on Supercomputing and Clusters in "NyTeknik", May 15, 2002.
• 2002-04-17 You may now use Gaussian 98 on the T3E also on the 256 MB nodes.
• 2002-04-03 Apply for Swedish High Performance Computing Resources at NSC before April 29.
• 2002-03-27 NSC builds a large new PC-cluster (Article in the local newspaper).
• 2002-03-18 Threefold increase in the NSC funding. Further details are available in Swedish.
• 2002-03-18 The Cray documentation system DynaWeb on http://manul.nsc.liu.se:8080/dynaweb/ has been replaced with the CrayDoc system on http://manul.nsc.liu.se/craydoc/ with much more information.
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• 2002-03-12 NSC has updated our XLotto service. Please retrieve the new XLotto from our ftp server: ftp.nsc.liu.se/pub/tools/xlotto/xlotto.
  The old XLotto stopped working on Monday March 18.
  More info about XLotto can be found on http://www.nsc.liu.se/systems/t3e/xlotto.html. When XLotto updates its info it will seem to "hang" for about 5 seconds, this is due to new "features" in HTTP/1.1, please accept this delay.
• 2002-03-08 We have upgraded the MIPSpro compilers on Lustig to version 7.3.1.3m.
• 2002-03-06 Seminar at the Mathematics Department by Dr. Markku Rummukainen, SWECLIM, SMHI, "On climate modelling and climate scenarios". A summary in Swedish is available on http://www.mai.liu.se/~anbjo/colloquia2002.html.
• 2002-03-05 NSC is looking for three system experts.
• 2002-02-28 We have upgraded the MIPSpro compilers on Lustig to version 7.3.1.2m.
• 2002-02-28 We have upgraded the NAG Fortran 77 Library on the SGI from Mark 19 to Mark 20. The old mark is no longer available since some links are fixed. In order to use the new mark you have to note that it has a new location.
• 2002-02-28 Programming Environment 3.5.0 is available for test on the T3E.
• 2002-02-26--27 Courses on MPI and OpenMP were given at NSC in Linköping by experts from Manchester Computing.
• 2002-02-11 A page with HPC related links has been added.
• 2002-01-10 The Search facility is now implemented.

• 2001-12-20 The User Guides have been updated to the January 2002 version.
• 2001-12-18 Radiation from supernovas studied by NSC in collaboration with the department of science and technology, Linköpings Universitet. A summary in Swedish is available.
• 2001-12-18 The web pages for NSC have been completely revised. You are welcome to link directly to our pages, however almost all addresses for the sub pages have changed. Further info on the special Web page.
• 2001-12-18 The High Performance Computing report from the Swedish Research Council recommends a threefold increase of the NSC funding for the next year.
• 2001-12-11 Course announcement
• 2001-12-03 Implementation of the new Web started.

Two courses were given at NSC in Linköping by instructors from Manchester Computing.

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Topics covered:

• The message-passing paradigm
• MPI fundamentals (communicators, rank and size)
• Point to point communication (messages, send and receive operations)
• Basic collective communication (reduction operations, broadcast, synchronisation, gather and scatter)

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Topics covered:

• All the important directives
• How to parallelise your code (plenty of hands-on exercises with emphasis to the practical use of OpenMP)
• Brief overview of concepts of parallel programming
• Brief introduction to the performance analysis tools perfex and SpeedShop
• Practical exercises

Further information on the courses available in Manchester http://www.csar.cfs.ac.uk/using/courses/

Register with Torgny Faxén.

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