H H PPP CCC UK NATIONAL HPC SERVICE H H P P C C -------------------------- HHHHH PPP C x x EPCC and CCLRC Daresbury H H P C C xx Laboratory are members of H H P CCC x x the HPC-UK partnership ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HPCx User Mailing 112 24 November 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents ** Course: DL_POLY on HPCx ** Workshop: Computational Engineering on HPCx ** Fill in the HPC Tools Survey and win Amazon Vouchers! ** HPC-Europa Access Grid Surgery on Data Archives in Distributed Environments ** 17th Machine Evaluation Workshop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings-- COURSE: DL_POLY ON HPCx CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, 8th December 2006 A one day course for users of the HPCx service will be held at Daresbury Laboratory on 8th December. The course will cover the use of DL_POLY, a classical molecular dynamics package, on HPCx, providing a full introduction to the code and also hads on training. The course will be held in the Computation Science and Engineering Department's Visualization, Meeting and Training (VMT) Room. Attendees should report to security ( found opposite the site entrance ), where they will be directed to the venue. The course will start at 10.00 am. with coffee and tea available from 9.30. Attendees should note that there is a lack of available terminals, and so to ensure that they can take part in the practicals >>>attendees should bring a lap top.<<< Registration form: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/form.html How to get to Daresbury Laboratory http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/about_us/where_we_are.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP: COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING ON HPCx CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, 14th December 2006 The workshop will include presentations of engineering research highlights from HPCx, numerical methods, computational issues, experiences on HPCx and other parallel systems, and a forward-look to HECToR. HPCx staff will be contributing talks on spectral methods, performance of Fluent and CFX, optimisation for POWER5 and porting to HECToR. Further details: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/compeng.html Registration form: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/form.html How to get to Daresbury Laboratory http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/about_us/where_we_are.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FILL IN THE HPC TOOLS SURVEY AND WIN AMAZON VOUCHERS! We are conducting an HPC Tools Survey - all registered HPCx users can fill it in online. Just go to https://www.hpcx.ac.uk/, login to the admin website and click "Tools Survey". The purpose of this survey is to discover what software development tools users employ for their computational science research on a range of different systems: on their laptop or desktop; on medium scale parallel machines provided at departmental or university level; on national supercomputers such as HPCx. The aim is to find out what tools are actually used on HPCx, what tools it would be useful to install on HPCx, and what gaps there are in the availability of tools on high-end supercomputers. As an incentive, we will be offering prizes of two 20-pound Amazon vouchers. After the survey closes (currently planned for the end of December) we will pick the two winners randomly from the list of users who completed the survey. Please note that the survey comprises a number of separate sections and that you must press the appropriate "Submit" button >>>at the end of every section.<<< Each section can be completed independently and you can return to the survey many times to fill in empty sections or modify your answers. Forgotten your website password? Go to https://www.hpcx.ac.uk/, enter your email address and click "Email" - it will send you a new one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCESS GRID SURGERY ON DATA ARCHIVES IN DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS Tuesday, 28 November, 14:00 - 16:00 Organised by HPC-Europa Presenters: C. Gheller and G. Fiameni, CINECA (Bologna, Italy) Data represent an emerging issue for scientists. Experimental and observational instruments produce enormous quantities of images and information. Computers and numerical simulations generate huge amount of data. All these data must be stored, managed and analysed. These steps require a great human effort, large scale facilities and efficient, powerful tools. The first step of this process, is the possibility of accessing data, stored in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. This requires enabling tools which are able to manage large distributed dataset and data archives and that support efficient access to data, by means of effective services and protocols, often acting at the server side, avoiding large and slow data movement. We present the solution that the HPC-Europa consortium is developing, using different technological solutions, like SRB and OGSA-DAI and we show the present status of implementation of a data portal for theoretical astrophysical data. You are invited to take part this event through your nearest Access Grid node. If you wish to take part, please email to the HPCx helpdesk: support@hpcx.ac.uk. We will then send you the necessary technical details to join the meeting. More information: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/hpc-europa/VisitorInfo/surgeries.html HPC-Europa: http://www.hpc-europa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 17TH MACHINE EVALUATION WORKSHOP Tuesday-Wednesday, 5-6 December CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory Daresbury Laboratory's 2006 Machine Evaluation Workshop will be held on 5th and 6th December as part of the EPSRC's Distributed Computing Support Programme. This Workshop is now established as a leading national event dedicated to distributed high performance scientific computing. The principle objective is to encourage close contact between the research communities from the Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Materials Programmes of EPSRC and the major vendors of workstations, software and peripherals. You are invited to attend this year's workshop, which will have a format similar to that of previous years with about a dozen major vendors making 20-minute presentations on topics such as hardware, compilers, graphics, storage, networking etc. In past years the audience has been very appreciative of the technical content of these talks and we have encouraged the speakers nominated by the vendors to focus their presentations accordingly. Important components of the workshop include the availability of systems for benchmarking evaluation purposes, plus the exhibition itself. Vendors are providing Internet access to these systems prior to the event, and the availability of products on the day will help delegates evaluate the machines. We hope to make loaned systems available from the 4th December for the duration of the event. For further details, and to register, please go here: http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/disco/mew17/mew17.html