HPCVL Expands Again,

HPCVL is pleased to announce the availability of our new Victoria Falls cluster. This cluster is based on Sun Microsystems 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2+ processors which have eight CPU cores and each core capable of running eight "threads" simultaneously. This is an exciting development as it is the first massively Chip Multithreaded (CMT) installation for research in Canada and is a paradigm shift. Altogether there are approximately 10,000 threads available. For details see the: HPCVL Victoria Falls Cluster page.

Note: The availability of this cluster will take some usage pressure off of our Sun Fire 25000 cluster and we will increase the number of software licenses for some of the commercial codes that people are using very heavily. Details to come in the coming weeks.

HPCVL Scholarships, The latest receipients of HPCVL Scholarships have been announced.
Please check here for details.

HPCVL is Hiring, HPCVL is seeking a full-time Associate Director. Please see posting for more details.

HPCVL Continues to Virtualize Research,The High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory today announced the launch of its Secure Grid Portal (SGP). Read the Press Release here (pdf) or (.doc)...

HPCVL Awarded $11.5M The Ontario Government recently awarded HPCVL $11.5. Please see press release here

HPCVL Digital Certificates are available. Ensure Data Integrity and meet compliance regulations. Please click here for details.

Scholarship Award Winners , Winners of the January 2008 Call have been announced. Check out the latest and past winners of the HPCVL/Sun Microsystems of Canada Scholarship in Computational Sciences and Engineering here.

HPC LRP for Canada , The Canadian High Performance Computing Long Range Plan has now been released. Click here http://c3.ca/ce/home_t.html/ for the press release.

HPCVL Working Template v5.3
The current version of the HPCVL Working Template (HWT) is v5.3. The HWT provides an advanced toolkit for the parallelization of code, including Version Maintainance, Automatic Relative Debugging, and Simple Timing. The software may be accessed directly on our Sunfire cluster at /opt/hwt, which also contains an application example. The User's Manual can be downloaded here.

External Usage Stats, External usage statistics for CFI funded infastructure. Click here for details.

Secure Grid Portal and Access,
HPCVL is requiring that all new users access central site resources through the HPCVL Secure Portal. Current users are encouraged to move to these resources as soon as possible. In time, we will be disabling ssh logins for general users. Note that while remote workup systems are currently only available via ssh, they will also be moved to Portal only access in the coming months.
Information on the HPCVL Secure Portal and how to obtain a digital certificate (required) may be obtained here.

New Fluent License / Grid Engine scheme
Please note that we have introduced a new scheme to manage the available Fluent licenses for Fluent jobs that were submitted by Grid Engine. Click here for details.

Configuring Your Environment,
Logins on the new compute grid can take advantage of a default rich environment. Access to new packages and customizations can be added with just a single command. Please read more here.

Usage of the SunFire 15K, If you would like to use the SunFire 15Ks (hpcvl7-hpcvl9) please check out these instructions on how to modify your Gridengine submission scripts.

Important Reminder , Please remember that all production jobs that are run on the cluster must be submitted via Grid Engine. Test jobs and compilations et al may still be run outside of Grid Engine on Node 0. Adherence to this policy helps ensure system stablility and efficiency.Please read this notice for details.