---------------------------------------------------------------------- H H PPP CCC UK NATIONAL HPC SERVICE H H P P C C -------------------------- HHHHH PPP C x x Provided by EPCC and H H P C C xx CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory H H P CCC x x ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HPCx User Mailing 119 2 April 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents ** Tools Survey: Results of Prize Draw! ** SIESTA version 2.0.1 ** HECToR user meeting: 19 April ** Course: Fundamental Concepts of HPC, 24-26 April ** Course: Message-Passing Programming with MPI, 30 April - 2 May ** CompSci07: 25 - 26 June ** Manchester Computing Parallel Programming Summer School, August ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOOLS SURVEY: RESULTS OF PRIZE DRAW! Many thanks to all who filled in the Tools Survey on our website. The results of the survey can be found here: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/research/hpc/technical_reports/HPCxTR0611.html The users whose names were drawn out of the hat (by me, in fact) were: * Ian Henderson from the University of Reading * Wuhu Feng from the University of Leeds Each of these will receive a GBP 20 Amazon voucher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SIESTA VERSION 2.0.1 ...is now available on HPCx. To gain access you have to hold a valid academic licence of SIESTA. Licensed users of SIESTA should contact the helpdesk to gain access. HPCx users who have been given access to an earlier versions of SIESTA can access the new executable in the package account without contacting the helpdesk. Any problems should be reported through the helpdesk to the HPCx applications team. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HECToR USER MEETING Oxford e-Research Centre, Keble Road, Oxford, 19 April 2007 This meeting is being convened by NAG Ltd, who will be doing the computational science and engineering support for the new HECToR HPC service. All interested in becoming users of the service are welcome to attend. Agenda 10:30 - 11:00 Registration and Coffee 11:00 - 11:10 Welcome and Agenda Jane Nicholson, EPSRC 11:10 - 11:45 Overview of HECToR Arthur Trew, EPCC 11:45 - 12:10 HECToR CSE Mike Dewar, NAG 12:10 - 13:00 Discussion/Questions Ian Reid, NAG (Chair) 13:10 - 13:45 Lunch 13:45 - 14:15 Applying for time on HECToR Jennifer Houghton, EPSRC 14:15 - 14:45 HPCx and HECToR Martyn Guest, CCLRC 14:45 - 15:00 Wrap up Rob Meyer, NAG 15:00 - Tea Location: The meeting will be held at the Oxford e-Research Centre in Keble Road. There will also be a live webcast for those unable to attend - we will mail out the URL for this later. Oxford e-Research Centre: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ HECToR: http://www.hector.ac.uk NAG: http://www.nag.co.uk To register, please email HECToR.meeting@nag.co.uk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING EPCC, Edinburgh, 24-26 April 2007 This course covers the ways that High Performance Computing (HPC) techniques can be used to address problems in Computational Science. After introducing the major scientific applications areas and basic concepts of parallel computing, it outlines the hardware design of modern HPC platforms and the parallel programming models that they support. The principal methods of measuring and characterising serial and parallel performance are then covered. The final section of the course gives an introduction to grid technologies together with an overview of the opportunities and challenges associated with the computational grid. Details: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/FundamentalConcepts.html Registration: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/form.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSE: MESSAGE-PASSING PROGRAMMING WITH MPI EPCC, Edinburgh, 30 April - 2 May 2007 Most of the applications on most of the world's supercomputers are parallelised using Message Passing. This course covers all the basic knowledge required to write parallel programs using this programming model, and is directly applicable to almost every parallel computer architecture, including both HPCx and HECToR. The course uses the de facto standard for message passing, the Message Passing Interface (MPI). It covers point-to-point communication, non-blocking operations, derived datatypes, virtual topologies, collective communication, MPI-IO and general design issues. Details: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/MPP.html Registration: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/form.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message comes from Prof Peter Coveney, UCL - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - COMPSCI07 Computational Science 2007: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Perspectives, from the Grid to e-Science Royal Society of London, 25-26 June The theme of the conference is the unified nature of computational science today, whose interdisciplinary methods transcend any specific scientific domain. In keeping with the recommendations of the International Review of UK Research Using High Performance Computing, the UK Strategic Framework for High End Computing, and the EPSRC's Action Plans being formulated in response, one aim of this conference is to help to build a computational science community within the UK, spanning all current, impending and anticipated future areas of activity. Speakers and participants at the CompSci07 meeting in June have been chosen for their broader outlook and shared vision for the future of computational science. The meeting is not intended to be "domain specific", nor to be comprised of a selection of domain specific talks by experts in their own fields who have no interest in sharing their ideas and methods beyond those restricted confines. Rather, it is designed to foster the development of a new community of computational scientists to meet the increasingly exciting and technically demanding challenges of the future. Organising committee: Prof. P. V. Coveney (Chair), University College London Prof. James Annett, Bristol University and CCLRC Daresbury Prof. Mike Cates, University of Edinburgh Dr. Stephen Pickles, University of Manchester Dr. John Brooke, University of Manchester Full information: http://www.realitygrid.org/CompSci07 The deadline for registration: Friday 8 June 2007. Please go to: http://www.realitygrid.org/CompSci07/registration.php There is no registration fee for attendance at this conference. The meeting is funded by RealityGrid, CCP9, EPSRC, BBSRC and JISC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message comes from Dr Craig Lucas of Manchester Computing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MANCHESTER COMPUTING PARALLEL PROGRAMMING SUMMER SCHOOL 13 - 17 August 2007 Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester is pleased to announce the 2007 Parallel Programming Summer School. There are two parallel sessions: one for attendees who don't know either Fortran or C, and one for those who have experience of one of these languages. Topics for students new to programming include: * Fortran * Introduction to HPC * OpenMP * Introduction to MPI Experienced programmers will study: * Introduction to HPC * OpenMP * Introduction to MPI * Advanced MPI * Code Optimization There will also be guest lectures on broader topics in HPC. Speakers include Jack Dongarra and vendor experts. Fees, Accommodation and Meals We can provide student accommodation with private bathroom, and all meals including the Summer School night out! Registration and all other information are detailed on the web link below. Places are limited. http://www.mc.manchester.ac.uk/services/courses/summerschool ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards --John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HPC-UK partnership: http://www.hpc-uk.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Earlier mailings: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/notices/index.html To be removed from the mailing list: log into your website account, go to the "Update" page, and click the "Opt out of user emails" field; then click "Commit update". -- John Fisher j.fisher@epcc.ed.ac.uk HPCx User Administration and Helpdesk HPCx: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk Helpdesk: support@hpcx.ac.uk Phone: +44 131 650 5029 Fax: +44 131 650 6555