A team from the company 3leaf systems installed a new addition to the HPC. Follow this link to learn how to run jobs in the new queue, smp_q. The 3 leaf computer system is a hardware based SMP solution for programs that require large amounts of memory. Using virtualization technology, the system which consists of 12 compute nodes, can be partitioned as one large SMP machine with 576 GB of memory and 144 cores. Click "read more" for some pictures of the installation.

The HPC team will attend the SuperComputing 2009 (SC 09) conference from Sunday 14th of November until Friday 20th of November. During this period, we will showcase the HPC in the FSU booth and we will host presentations by Henry Winterbottom, Joycelynn Nelson and Gordon Erlebacher. Both Henry and Gordon will present from SC09 and their presentation will be displayed in the conference room at the Department of Scientific Computing. Joycelynn will present from the conference room and her presentation will be broadcasted live at SuperComputing.

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Next week we will host the HPC student competition talks in Dirac Science Library room 499. These talks will be held on Wednesday and Friday and the specific time for each talk is given below and on the HPC web site. Please join us.

The HPC will be upgraded during the period of August 17 until Augustus 28. During this period we will re-stack the compute nodes from the 2007 acquisition, reconfigure part of the interconnection network and add 128 new compute nodes. The HPC will be unavailable to users during these two weeks.

In order to highlight the use of the FSU’s shared-High Performance Computing facility, we invite students to participate in a competition for best research paper using the HPC facility in their research.

The Florida State University has entered into a first-of-its-kind agreement with Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies that will grant the biomedical research center access to an incredibly powerful array of computers at the university. Using the computers, Torrey Pines will conduct highly complex computational analyses that are a critical step in developing new treatments for a variety of diseases.

On Friday, October 31th, we will upgrade the software for the HPC website. This might lead to some disruption, so be patient if your page doesn't load immediatly and try again later. We are sorry for any inconveniences that you might run into.

A delegation of the HPC staff will be present at the SuperComputing 07 conference in Reno, Nevada.

At the conference, we will present the HPC cluster at the exhibition space of the conference.

During two sessions of the SCS Tech Series seminar an overview of the HPC cluster and an introduction in the use of the MOAB job scheduler will be given. The sessions will be on Wednesday Oct 3 and Oct 10 in the SCS lecture room DSL 152.