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In late March, USC ‘s Center for High-Performance Computing (HPC) brought our cluster back online after a week-long downtime. We schedule two downtimes per year for regular maintenance but, as mentioned in part one, we had to do extra planning for this particular downtime as we were implementing a major change to how jobs are scheduled […]
USC High-Performance Computing recently transitioned from PBS Torque/Moab to Slurm. The transition has gone surprisingly well, and I wanted to blog a little about what we did as ACI-REFs to prepare for it. The transition took place during the week of March 19th. By early January, the lead Slurm administrator had set up a representative […]
Brett Milash, Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah One of my roles at the University of Utah involves supporting scientists developing computing work flows on the computer clusters here at the Center for High Performance Computing. Toward this goal I am evaluating a number of the countless work flow management tools out […]
At the Center for High Throughput Computing at UW – Madison, we don’t install software system-wide for specific researchers, except for common, well-used system libraries. Instead, we recommend that individual researchers download or build a copy of their desired software locally. In this post, I’ll talk about why we do this, how it works, and […]
I just attended the Science Gateways Community Institute 2017 Conference in Ann Arbor, MI and had a great time learning about the variety of resources available to researchers and developers alike. If you are not familiar with what a science gateway is the basic definition is: a tool that allows science & engineering communities to […]
Linh Ngo Clemson University After the first workshop on Data Mining was offered, we have had several follow-up appointments from participants of the workshop. While majority of these meeting involved clarifying details from the workshop, several of them were about techniques to developing specific data mining scenarios in actual research work, which were not covered […]
Linh Ngo Clemson University By Spring 2017, the Cyberinfrastructure and Technology Integration (CITI) Department at Clemson University has offered a range of introductory research computing workshops. Contents covered by these workshops include Linux, Github, Python, R, Hadoop MapReduce, and Apache Spark. However, post-workshop surveys indicate that participants want to have access to more advanced workshops. […]
Cyd Burrows-Schilling University of California, San Diego The third ACI-REF Virtual Residency (VR) gathered again at the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, campus this year from Sunday, July 30 through Friday, August 4, 2017. Being relatively new to the field of research facilitation (just 1 year in and loving it!), I was eager to participate […]
Last month, I attended the inaugural PEARC17 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. PEARC (Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing) was created by merging conferences for communities that support and benefit from research computing. As a result, there was a great variety in the types of sessions offered.
A few months ago a biology group at the University of Utah contacted the Center for High-Performance Computing (CHPC). Their goal was to predict the MS/MS spectra for a set of molecules (#:230,737). In a first step, I installed the CFM-ID code and its dependencies (vide infra). On our Ember cluster (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 […]