CHPC News
This section is here to provide the user of an overview and index of what can be found in the News directories.
- News Items: History of all news announcements made by CHPC this year including notifications of presentations, downtimes and policy changes.
- 2008 News Items: History of all news announcements make by CHPC in 2008 including notifications of presentations, downtimes and policy changes.
- 2007 News Items: History of all news announcements make by CHPC in 2007 including notifications of presentations, downtimes and policy changes.
- 2006 News Items: History of all news announcements make by CHPC in 2006 including notifications of presentations, downtimes and policy changes.
- 2005 News Items: History of all news announcements make by CHPC in 2005 including notifications of presentations, downtimes and policy changes.
- 2004 News Items: History of all news announcements make by CHPC in 2004 including notifications of presentations, downtimes and policy changes.
- Downtimes: Downtimes in the current year.
- 2008 Downtimes: Downtimes in 2008.
- 2007 Downtimes: Downtimes in 2007.
- 2006 Downtimes: Downtimes in 2006.
- 2005 Downtimes: Downtimes in 2005.
- 2004 Downtimes: Downtimes in 2004.
- Current System Status: Summary of Current System Status of HPC Systems
- Newsletters: CHPC Newsletters, past and present (PDF and HTML)
Most Recent News Items:
CHPC Presentation: Gaussian and Gaussview
Posted: November 17, 2009
Event date: November 19, 2009
CHPC Presentation Series
Gaussian and GaussViewDate: November 19, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: INSCC Auditorium
Presented by: Anita Orendt
This talk will focus on the use of the Gaussian and GaussView software packages at CHPC. The presentation will provide details on the new features of Gaussian09 and the differences between Gaussian03 and Gaussian09 along with information about scaling of the software on CHPC computational resources.
CHPC Presentation: Chemistry Packages at CHPC, 11/12/09, 1 p.m., INSCC Auditorium
Posted: November 9, 2009
CHPC Presentation Series
Chemistry Packages at CHPCDate: November 12, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: INSCC Auditorium
Presented by: Anita Orendt
This talk will focus on the computational chemistry software packages - Gaussian, Amber, NWChem, Molpro, Dalton, Babel, GaussView, ECCE - that are available on CHPC computer systems. The talk will be an overview of the packages and their capabilities, and will focus on details of how users can access the installations at CHPC.
CHPC Presentation: NLP Services at CHPC, 10/29, 1 p.m., INSCC Auditorium
Posted: November 2, 2009
CHPC Presentation Series
NLP Services at CHPCDate: November 5, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: INSCC Auditorium
Presented by: Sean Igo
This presentation is an overview of the equipment and software presently available at CHPC for Natural Language Processing (NLP). It will also cover related resources for general Artificial Intelligence use such as machine learning and data mining, and will include a brief descripton of CHPC's general resources and how to access them.
CHPC Presentation: Telematic Collaboration with the Access Grid, 10/29, 1 p.m., INSCC Auditorium
Posted: October 26, 2009
Date: October 29nd, 2009 **Corrected**
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: INSCC Auditorium
Presented by: Beth Miklavcic, Jimmy Miklavcic, Josh Bross and Colin McDermott
The development of the InterPlay performance series began in 1999 and was built upon the Access Grid infrastructure. It was followed by an emerging first public performance in 2003 and continues to date. It has created many unique challenges and at present, the challenges have matured and multiplied with each subsequent performance. This developmental process, the issues surmounted and those currently being addressed are discussed in this presentation. Beth and Jimmy Miklavcic will provide an overview of the InterPlay performances from 2003 to 2009 and a preview of the Cinematic Display Control Interface being developed by undergraduate researchers Josh Bross and Colin McDermott.
CHPC Downtime completed sucessfully about 7:15 p.m. (10/13/09) - cluster up and scheduling jobs
Posted: October 13, 2009
CHPC successfully completed the downtime today. The /scratch/mm space which had been deployed on the marchingmen cluster prior to retiring that system, has been re-deployed on tunnelarch as /scratch/ta and is available on the interactive and compute nodes of the tunnelarch cluster.
If you see any problems with your desktop, please reboot and see if the issue is resolved. If the problem persists, please let us know by sending email to issues@chpc.utah.edu
CHPC Major Downtime: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - ALL DAY
Posted: October 7, 2009
Duration: From 8:00 a.m. until evening, Tuesday October 13th, 2009
Systems Affected/Downtime Timelines:
- All HPC Clusters
- Intermittent outage of CHPC supported networks
- All CHPC supported desktops mounting CHPCFS file systems.
Instructions to User:
- Expect intermittent outages of the CHPC supported networks.
- Desktops mounting the CHPCFS file systems plan for CHPCFS to be unavailable most of the day. Those with Windows and Mac desktops should be able to function, but will not have access to the CHPCFS file systems. CHPC recommends that you reboot your desktops after the downtime.
- All HPC Clusters will be down most of the day.
During this downtime maintenance will be performed on the cooling system in the Komas datacenter, requiring all clusters housed in the data center to be down most of the day. CHPC will take advantage of this down time to do a number of additional tasks, including work on the network and file servers.
All file systems served from CHPCFS will be unavailable for a good part of the day. This includes HPC home directory space as well as departmental file systems supported by CHPC. We will work to get things online as soon as possible.
CHPC Presentation: Introduction to Programming with OpenMP, 10/08, 1 p.m., INSCC Auditorium
Posted: October 6, 2009
Date: Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: INSCC Auditorium
Presented by: Martin Cuma
This talk introduces OpenMP, an increasingly popular and relatively simple shared memory parallel programming model. Two parallelizing schemes, parallel do loops and parallel sections, were detailed using examples. Various clauses that allow user to modify the parallel execution were also presented, including sharing and privatizing of the variables, scheduling, synchronization and mutual exclusion of the parallel tasks. Finally, few hints were given on removing loop dependencies in order to obtain effective parallelization.
CHPC Presentation: Introduction to Programming with MPI, 10/01, 1 p.m., INSCC Auditorium
Posted: September 29, 2009
Date: Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: INSCC Auditorium
Presented by: Martin Cuma
This course discusses introductory and selected intermediate topics in MPI programming. We base this presentation on two simple examples and explain the MPI parallel development of them. The first example encompasses MPI initialization and simple point to point communication (which takes place between two processes). The second example includes introduction to collective communication calls (where all active processes are involved) and options for effective data communication strategies, such as derived data types and packing the data. Some ideas on more advanced MPI programming options are discussed in the end of the talk.
***REMINDER*** Updraft users: /scratch/general and /scratch/uintah will be scrubbed of all data at Noon on MONDAY 9/28/2009
Posted: September 15, 2009
***REMINDER***
In order to optimize performance on the /scratch/general and /scratch/uintah file systems (on the updraft cluster) CHPC will use the General DAT of updraft from Noon on September 28th until Noon on Monday, September 30th. ALL DATA FROM THESE FILESYSTEMS WILL BE SCRUBBED! Please make sure that any important results you may have in those spaces is copied elsewhere by Noon, Monday September 28th, 2009.
