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H   H  PPP    CCC                           UK  NATIONAL  HPC  SERVICE
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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

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HPCx User Mailing 109                                  3 November 2006
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Contents

**  Delays in access to HPCx

**  Course: Tools for High Performance Computing

**  SC06 - Supercomputing in Tampa - "Powerful beyond imagination"

**  17th Machine Evaluation Workshop


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Greetings--


DELAYS IN ACCESS TO HPCx

Some people may be experiencing network delays at the moment when
using HPCx. Only people who are moving large amounts of data may be
affected.

This because everyone is currently migrating to the new SuperJANET5
network. The transition is happening gradually, which means that some
people are on the new network, and others on the old SuperJANET4. The
two networks are only connected in London, which means that traffic
between the two has to be routed through there.

NNW, which includes Daresbury Laboratory, where HPCx is located, moved
to SuperJANET5 on 31 October.  Every one else will move over the next
two weeks.  There's a timetable here:

 http://www.ja.net/sj5/transition.html


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COURSE: TOOLS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

10th November 2006
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire.

Registration is now open for a one day HPCx training course  on 'Tools
for HPC', to be held at the CCLRC Rutherford  Appleton Laboratory on
Friday 10th November 2006.

The course will cover parallel commercial profiling and  debugging
tools such as Vampir and Totalview along with  IBM tools such as
Xprofiler, MPItrace and Hpmcount.  Also included is a session on
Fortran Software Tools  covering software quality, software
transformation and  software understanding.

The course is suitable for both new and established  parallel
programmers and software developers, though  some prior knowledge of
Fortran and MPI is desirable.

The course is free to all UK academics, however places  are strictly
limited, so prompt registration is advised.

For more information please see:

 http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/support/training/tools4HPC.html


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SC06 - SUPERCOMPUTING IN TAMPA - "POWERFUL BEYOND IMAGINATION"

SC06, "the premier international conference on high performance
computing, networking, storage and analysis", will take place in
Tampa, FL, USA over November 11 - 17.

For details go to the website at http://sc06.supercomputing.org/.  It
says:

 This year the conference will take its inspiration from Albert
 Einstein who said "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and
 stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant;
 together they are powerful beyond imagination."

 Following the traditions set with the first SC conference in 1988,
 exciting technical and educational programs, workshops, tutorials,
 exhibits, demonstrations and many other activities await attendees.
 SC06 is the one place where attendees can see tomorrow's technology
 being used to solve world-class challenge problems today.

HPCx will be there - come and see us at booths 209/213.


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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