---------------------------------------------------------------------- H H PPP CCC UK NATIONAL HPC SERVICE H H P P C C -------------------------- HHHHH PPP C x x provided by H H P C C xx EPCC and H H P CCC x x CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HPCx User Mailing 001 4 October 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents ** User mailings ** Earlybird flies south ** Courses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings-- USER MAILINGS This is the first of what will be a continuing series of general mailings to users of the HPCx service. They will cover things like: * News about the systems: - Software upgrades - Changes in software configuration, etc - New FAQ entries and technical tips - Warnings about future downtime - etc * Announcements about HPCx courses * News about important changes on the website * News of relevant meetings and other events in the HPC world * Announcements from our funding bodies * etc... Normally there will be two or three a month. Soon it will be possible through your page on the website to opt in and out of this and other HPCx mailing lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EARLYBIRD FLIES SOUTH At 10:00 next Wednesday, October 9th, the early use service on earlybird.hpcx.ac.uk will close. The two p960 nodes will then be taken to Darebury to be integrated with the rest of the main service system. The early-use service will reopen on the main system at the beginning of November. Unfortunately, this means that ALL DATA ON EARLYBIRD WILL BE LOST when the machine is shut down. You must remove any data you need by 10:00 on Wednesday morning. Apologies for the short notice with this... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COURSES On 28th November we shall be running a course, "Introduction to the HPCx Service". The course will provide an overview of HPCx, and will cover topics such as compilation, execution, batch job submission, tools and libraries. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to request and receive consultancy on their own specific codes. The course will be held in the EPCC training room in Edinburgh and is free and open to all HPCx users. In addition places are available on a range of courses in High Performance Computing, taking place at EPCC in October and November. Full details of these courses are available here: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/computing/training/timetable/ If you would like to attend either the Introduction to the HPCx Service course, or any of the other courses please use this form to apply: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/computing/training/courses/form1.html Places will probably be short, so please apply now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards --John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Earlier mailings: http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/notices/index.html -- 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