---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 066 15 April 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents ** ScicomP11: Registrations open ** DL_POLY Training Day ** Phase 1 backups: the time has come... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings-- SCICOMP11: REGISTRATIONS OPEN The early registration deadline for ScicomP11, the 11th IBM Scientific System User Group, is May 1st. This meeting is being hosted by EPCC in Edinburgh from 31 May to 3 June 2005 - see www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/scicomp/. An updated programme of invited talks is now available at www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/scicomp/program.htm. Key speakers currently include: * David Turek (VP IBM Deep Computing) * Richard Kenway (Chair of EPCC) * Don Grice (IBM Distinguished Engineer Poughkeepsie) * Gyan Bhanot (IBM Research Watson) * Juan Jose Porta (IBM EMEA/Germany) * Manish Gupta (IBM Research Watson) * Paul Madden (The University of Edinburgh) * Ashwini Nanda (IBM Research Watson) * Roch Archambault (IBM Toronto) * Simone Sbaraglia (IBM Research Watson) * Ram Rajamony (IBM Research Austin) To register, and for up-to-date information on ScicomP11 and the associated SP-XXL meeting, see www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/scicomp/. The ScicomP11 Organising Committee scicomp@epcc.ed.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DL_POLY TRAINING DAY Wednesday, 27 April, at Daresbury Laboratory DL_POLY is a flagship molecular dynamics program, used throughout the UK to perform atomistic simulations. We will be holding a one-day DL_POLY Training Course at Daresbury Laboratory on Wednesday 27 April 2005. The timetable is as follows. 09:30 Overview of DL_POLY packages (WS) 10:00 Using DL_POLY (WS) 10:30 DL_POLY under the hood (WS and IJB) 11:10 Coffee (free) 11:30 DL_POLY on HPCx (IJB) 12:00 The DL_POLY GUI (WS) 12:30 Lunch 13:30 DL_POLY Hands-on session 14:30 Coffee (free) 16:30 Wind-up sesssion 17:00 Depart We have places for 16 people, who will be accepted on a first-come- first-served basis. If you wish to attend, please respond SOON to: w.smith@dl.ac.uk Please note that it is ESSENTIAL to bring a laptop computer (Windows or Unix) with an internet browser and means to connect to our ethernet. Wireless access will also be available. Those requiring overnight accommodation should book a room at the Daresbury Hostel as soon as possible: dl_hostel_reservations@dl.ac.uk Bill Smith and Ian Bush ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHASE 1 BACKUPS: THE TIME HAS COME... People who were HPCx users at the time of our migration to the Phase 2 platform may remember that we made a special backup copy of all the files on the old Phase 1 platform before we copied everything across. This was done just in case any of the files failed to copy correctly. That was in June last year. The backup occupies more than 70 tapes, and as far as I know, none of them have ever been needed. We feel that if any files had failed to port correctly this would have been noticed by now. Accordingly, we propose to release these tapes for other uses at the start of May. If anyone needs to refer to them, please let us know before then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards --John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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