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University of Canterbury Upgrades HPC Capacity 10X
0Prime Minister and UC alumnus the Rt Hon John Key officially welcomes a new era in supercomputing at the University of Canterbury today by boosting the HPC capacity of the BlueFern system 10-fold.
University of Wisconsin Deploys Its Largest Supercomputer
0The largest, most powerful computer on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus began operations in June of 2011.
University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Adds Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution to Itasca System
0The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) is happy to announce that it has added 550 TB of usable disk space for its flagship Itasca system with the addition of a Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution.
Appro to Deliver 800 TFLOPS Supercomputer to Japan’s University of Tsukuba
0Appro today announced that the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on the future Intel Xeon processor E5 Family is selected by the Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Tsukuba.
Durham University Boosts Power, Adds 1PB Storage to Support Cosmology Research
0The world-leading Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) has upgraded its server and storage cluster, COSMA4.
New Indiana University Report on Campus Bridging Software and Services
0Campus bridging seeks to enable seamless integrated use of scientist’s personal cyberinfrastructure with the scientist’s home campus and at other institutions around the world.
The Indiana University (IU) Pervasive Technology Institute has released a workshop report on software and service issues related to campus bridging. This report may be found at .
The goal of campus bridging is to enable the seamlessly integrated use among: a scientist or engineer’s personal cyberinfrastructure; cyberinfrastructure on the scientist’s campus; cyberinfrastructure at other campuses; and cyberinfrastructure at the regional, national, and international levels; so that they all function as if they were proximate to the scientist. When working within the context of a Virtual Organization (VO), the goal of campus bridging is to make the ‘virtual’
Loughborough University Slated to Build Hybrid Cloud with Logicalis
1An English university has contracted Logicalis to provide enhanced ICT services for the university system via its partnership with Logicalis.
Durham University Uses 25Tflops ‘Cosmology Machine’ To Study Origin, Evolution Of The Universe
0A team of 20 cosmology researchers from the world-leading Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), based at Durham University and led by internationally recognised Professor Carlos Frenk, can now simulate the Universe and galaxies, including the Milky Way, with increasing levels of sophistication using a new powerful, eco-friendly server and storage cluster, dubbed the ‘Cosmology machine’, in its fourth generation, COSMA4 for short.
Eventually, the server and storage cluster will enable researchers to simulate finer and finer components of the Universe such as galaxies, stars and even planets.
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University of Tromso Releases the Torque Roll for Rocks 5.3
0Roy Dragseth of the University of Tromso announces:
The torque roll for Rocks 5.3.0 is now ready for download. Get the bits at:
ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/rocks/torque-roll/5.3.0
Most important software included:
- Torque v2.4.6
- Maui v3.2.6p21
- mpiexec v0.83
New features
- Node properties in Torque are now supported through setting node attributes using the rocks command line.
- New queue web display not relying on Ganglia (just a simple cgi-bin wrapper around the maui commands.)
- OpenMPI – Torque integration without recompiling OpenMPI with tm interface.
- New documentation.
See the roll docs for details.
Installation
The Rocks way of installing the roll is as usual to reinstall your frontend and compute nodes, but you can also use the chain of commands to install a new roll on an existing frontend (with or without a previous version of the roll):
# rocks add roll /path/to/torque/roll.iso
# rocks enable roll torque
# rocks create distro
# rocks run roll torque | sh
# reboot
After the the frontend comes back up you should do the following to populate the node list:
# rocks sync config
then kickstart all your nodes
# tentakel /boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart
After the nodes are reinstalled they should automatically pop up in the queueing system.
Source Code
The source code of the roll can be accessed from a public mercurial repository: http://devsrc.cc.uit.no/hg/torque/
University of Tromso Releases the Torque Roll for Rocks 5.4
0Roy Dragseth of the University of Tromso announces:
The torque roll for Rocks 5.4.0 is now ready for download. Get the bits at:
ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/rocks/torque-roll/5.4.0
Most important software included:
- Torque v2.4.11
- Maui v3.2.6p21
- mpiexec v0.84
Maintenance Release
This version of the torque roll is a maintenance release. It contains several bug fixes as well as refreshed software.
Installation
The Rocks way of installing the roll is as usual to reinstall your frontend and compute nodes, but you can also use the chain of commands to install a new roll on an existing frontend (with or without a previous version of the roll):
# rocks add roll /path/to/torque/roll.iso
# rocks enable roll torque
# rocks create distro
# rocks run roll torque | sh
# reboot
After the the frontend comes back up you should do the following to populate the node list:
# rocks sync config
then kickstart all your nodes
# rocks run host /boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart
After the nodes are reinstalled they should automatically pop up in the queueing system.
Source Code
The source code of the roll can be accessed from a public mercurial repository: http://devsrc.cc.uit.no/hg/torque/
