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 Named in "Best 10 Research Facilities in Canada"
in Backbone Magazine
HPCVL is proud to announce that we were selected as one of the "Best 10 Research Facilities" in Canada. The editor and publisher of Re$earch Money magazine helped compile a list of nine facilities and one company. The Backbone 200 consists of organizations, people, events and products that stand out, that contribute to our competitiveness and economic strengths, and-as in the case of our world-leading game developers-our ability to have fun and make money.
See full article here.
Summer School 2013 East
We are pleased to announce this year's Ontario High-Performance Computing Summer School (East). For the third year now, this Summer School is being jointly run by HPCVL, SciNet and SHARCNET, with three offerings (East, Central and West). Summer School (East) will be hosted by the University of Ottawa, on May 28 – 31, 2013. The four-day Summer School offers training including both lectures and hands-on exercises. Subjects include programming for distributed and shared memory systems, as well as GPUs, and others. For details, see the Summer School Page. Online registration is done here.
HPCS 2013: Registration now open
Registration is now open for HPCS2013 in Ottawa.
Early Bird pricing closing early May. Register now.
HPCS (the High Performance Computing Symposium) is Canada’s foremost supercomputing conference – a multidisciplinary conference where computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and academia, computer scientists, and vendors exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results in and for HPC computational research have issued the First Call for Submissions.
HPCS2013 will take place in Ottawa from June 2 - 6, 2013. The first two days (Sunday and Monday) will consist of tutorial workshops covering introductory and advanced tools for high performance computing, and the technical sessions of the symposium will take place Tuesday through Thursday. More Information may be found here. See HPCS2013 Poster
HPCS 2013: Call For Submissions Closed -- UPDATE
The Call For Submissions for HPCS2013 is now closed. More Information may be found here.
Canadian Coast to Coast Seminar Series
The Coast to Coast Seminar is an hour-long presentation given on a scientific topic and made accessible to audiences at a number of remote sites through collaboration technology.The presentations are broadcast through Video Conferencing and can be accessed from one of our VC facilities. This academic year's entries are now concluded. The series will continue in the fall. Details about the individual presentations may be found here.
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.
HPCVL and NAG Continue Partnership
HPCVL has 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.
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.
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 Digital Certificates are Available
Digital certificates ensure data integrity and meet compliance regulations.