Research Support
Mills HPC cluster being retired, new HPC cluster planned
On Jan. 27, the HPC team announced the plans for the final year of the Mills high performance computing (HPC) community cluster. The Mills cluster was designed to have a 5-year life span; that span concludes at the end of the 2016 calendar year. Refer to the Mills formal policy document for details on the strategy to retire Mills. Questions about Mills and its final year can be directed to the HPC team using the HPC help request form.
Currently, the HPC team is designing the next HPC cluster. Researchers who use Mills are encouraged to complete the HPC cluster interest form to indicate their future HPC needs and to provide input on the transition from Mills to a new cluster.
September 28: HPC Symposium
The final 2016 High Performance Computing Symposium session will be hosted at Faculty Commons on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 10:00 a.m., and will kick off with a presentation by Sunita Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of Computer and Information Sciences, and her research group. Chandrasekaran and her group will discuss how they are using parallel programming models to migrate legacy scientific code to HPC platforms, how the computing challenges differ from application to application, and what tools and techniques they use to gather profiling and application performance data. The researchers will also discuss recent results gathered using NVIDIA K80 GPU and an emerging programming model, OpenACC.
The presentation will be followed by an hour-long open forum for researchers, staff members, and students to ask questions and share ideas. The IT Research Computing staff will also ask participants for input on the development of the next computing cluster. (Register)
This presentation is one of a series of meetings designed for researchers using or interested in using the University’s HPC clusters. Those interested in presenting a future HPC Symposium should contact it-hpc-interest@udel.edu.
October Training Sessions
IT Research Computing staff will be offering a variety of training sessions during October. An updated list of events, topics, and dates is available at the Research Computing website.
- XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop: OpenMP, Tuesday, Oct. 4 (Register)
- The Unix Basics Series will continue in October with four
1.5 hour sessions held in Faculty Commons (116 Pearson Hall).
The sessions will cover a variety of UNIX/Linux concepts such as
variables and environments, aliases, permissions, regular
expressions, and shell programming. (Register)
- Introduction to UNIX/Linux (Part 2) on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
- Regular Expressions on Thursday, Oct. 13, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
- Shell Programming (Part 1) on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
- Shell Programming (Part 2) on Thursday, Oct. 20, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
- Community coffee hours: This summer, IT-CS&S began hosting coffee hours for the UD Graphic Information Systems (GIS) community. These bimonthly meetings begin with a special research or vendor presentation followed by a discussion about current issues in GIS. The next GIS coffee hour will be Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 10:00 a.m. in 304 Pearson Hall. For more information, email Olena Smith, IT-CS&S.
- GIS Day: IT-CS&S and the University Library will host GIS Day on Wednesday, Nov. 16, in the Library’s Class of 1941 Lecture Room. More details will be posted on the UD GIS website.
