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For Users
GPC OS upgrade – what you need to know
The operating system of the General Purpose Clusters will be updated from CentOS 5.6 to CentOS 6.0 in a few weeks. Note that the ARC already uses the newer OS. This upgrade includes updates to other programs/modules, and will mean that you will have to recompile your code. To prepare for this transition, ten (ethernet) [...]
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For-Credit SciNet Course: “Scientific Software Development”
The first of SciNet’s for-credit courses (for Astronomy 3100 minicourse and Phys 2109 modular course credit) will start in November, and be held in SciNet’s conference room, at 256 McCaul street on the 2nd floor. Dates are Nov 4, 11, 18, and 25th, 9:30-11:30am on each Friday. The goal of the first course is to [...]
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File system restructuring
In the near future, the home, scratch, project and hpss file systems at SciNet will be restructured. As a consequence, users’ files will reside in different (absolute) locations than before. The main objective of this move is to reduce the access contention to the root directory of these file systems, which we have found can [...]
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Courses
SciNet’s HPC experts offer a variety of courses on high-performance technical research computing to the SciNet user community and to external partners. Recent course offerings have included: GPU Computing Introduction to HPC Introduction to Parallel Computing Scientific Programming for Physical Sciences Parallel I/O Currently scheduled classes can be seen on our events page.
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