Accelerating the pace of Canadian Research
The Human Genome project has garnered its fair share of global attention. Carleton University has become a major player through an innovative and complex undertaking led by Dr. Frank Dehne and supported by HPCVL's multi-threading capabilities. The project will provide a complete scan of the interactions between human proteins, and offer valuable new insights into biological processes within cells, helping us to better understand the human body in health and disease.
Highlights
HPCVL Provides Secure Resources for Ontario Brain Institute
HPCVL provides a secure environment and computing resources for the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI). The Ontario Brain Institute is creating an extensive brain research database called the Brain-CODE that will allow researchers to work faster and more efficiently.
Read more here and here.
Summer School on High Performance Computing - West June 4-7, 2012
As part of an annual education event, this is in a week-long program of hands-on courses covering introductory HPC materials, programming for distributed systems (MPI), GPU programming, software best practices, debugging and much more. These courses are held at Western University on June 4-7, 2012. Registration is open to all Ontario HPC users. Click here for more details and registration.
HPCVL and NAG Continue Partnership
HPCVL has just renewed their licensing agreement with the Numerical Algorithm Group. This partnership offers a unique opportunity for HPCVL users to obtain temporary licenses for the NAG numerical libraries on their local machines, as well as for their work using HPCVL servers and clusters. This makes it possible for our users to do development work on local work stations using the same libraries as for the production runs on our computing facilities. The libraries covered include Fortran and C libraries, as well as parallel SMP library for multi-core and shared memory computers, and the MPI-based NAG Parallel library for clusters. The NAG libraries offer more than 1,600 fast, robust, and reliable numerical routines ranging from Linear Algebra and Optimization to Special Functions and Statistical Analysis. Details can be found in our FAQ and on the NAG website. Contact us if you are interested.
HPCVL Assists in development of open source PV research
HPCVL is collaborating with the Queen’s Applied sustainability group and St .Lawrence College to assist in leading edge photovoltaic research, and in the dissemination of data from joint Queen’s/St. Lawrence College “open source” PV test sites. The purpose of the Open Source Outdoors Test Field (OSOTF) (see attached flyer) is to develop a world class test field for fundamental and applied PV research. Data from the test field will be freely available to the research community online, and the stable and secure servers at HPCVL are the ideal candidate for hosting this specialized data. In addition, the computing resources at HPCVL will be used to assist simulations efforts which will shed light into questions regarding the interaction between PV devices and our atmosphere.
HPCVL Library for Parallel Programming on Multicore Clusters
The "Double-layer Master-Slave Model" (DMSM) combines an MPI-based approach for workload distribution on a cluster with local OpenMP-based task scheduling for multicore nodes. It is therefore ideally suited to exploit clusters with multicore and multithreaded nodes. At HPCVL, we have implemented this model in the form of a library that requires minimal user input. The library is freely available for download in the form of Fortran90 and C source code. Since only standard language features were used in the development, it can be deployed easily on multiple platforms. For details, see our FAQ file, or the User's Manual.
The NRAC call for proposals Fall 2011 deadline has now passed. These calls are aimed at PIs who require greater than the default allocation on any HPC system. Please check out the NRAC call for more information.
HPCS 2011, Montreal June 15-17
The 25th annual High Performance Computing Symposium was held in Montreal, a multidiciplinary conference that focuses on research involving HPC in Canada. HPCVL hosted HPCS 2009 in Kingston, Ontario.
HPCVL Scholarships
The Sun/HPCVL Scholarship Program has now ended. Congratulations to all past recipients of a scholarship!
Video Conferencing Rooms
HPCVL is in the process of installing Access Grid rooms in all of the consortia locations. Access Grids make use of fast connections between sites and quality A/V equipment, which allows for high quality video conferencing.
First Complete Scan of the Human Proteome
Using HPCVL resources, Dr. F. Dehne and his team of researchers are working on the entire Homo sapiens proteome.
HPCVL wins ORION Discovery Award
HPCVL has been awarded the 2010 ORION Discovery award.
HPCVL-Sun Chairs
Three HPCVL-Sun Microsystems of Canada Chairs in Computational Science and Engineering were appointed.
The Virtual Lab
HPCVL runs the "The Virtual Lab" Outreach Program, an online resource for Ontario educators teaching math and sciences in the upper elementary and secondary grades. The website provides great resources matched to the Ontario curriculum.
HPCVL Continues to Virtualize Research
We provide access to resources via web browser through the Secure Grid Portal (SGP).
HPCVL Digital Certificates are Available
Digital certificates ensure data integrity and meet compliance regulations.