A
critical piece to research in the fields of Physics and Astronomy, the
practice of high performance computing covers the spectrum from
developing software for petaflop supercomputers to getting the greatest
performance from desktops. The PACS team supports the efforts of
researchers through software and hardware.
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Software
Development and Toolkits:
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Intel
Compilers and Libraries - PACS is currently evaluating the Intel
suite of compilers, develop tools, and libraries. This includes C++,
Fortran, MKL, VTune, and ThreadChecker. For
more information, consult
this site (coming soon.)
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RedHat
Enterprise 4 Suite - PACS maintains RedHat Enterprise Linux for
Physics and Astronomy. This comes with the standard set of tools
including GCC, G77, Perl, Python, and more. Please email PACS support
if you are interested in having RedHat installed on your desktop.
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Hardware
Resources:
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Clusters
- PACS, with support from other staff and students, manage several
cluster resources within the department. Astronomy, INT, and Physics
all have dedicated DELL clusters (ranging from 16 CPUs to 512CPUs). In
addition, all three organizations maintain Condor clusters to utilize
their desktops as compute nodes 24 by 7.
The Athena cluster, a 10TF supercomputer is the result of a collaboration
between the Institute for Nuclear Theory, the Department of Astronomy, and
the Department of Physics. For more information on access to Athena, please
visit the Athena wiki.
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Filesystems
- Astronomy is currently pioneering the adoption of high-performance,
clustered file systems in their facility. PACS plans to migrate these
types of technologies into both INT and Physics soon.
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Mailing Lists
and Classes:
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PACS-CODERS
- PACS is moderating an email list called pacs-coders.This is a
discussion list to air ideas, tricks, and tips; initially dealing with
multi-core programming and cluster computing. Follow
this link if you're interested in subscribing to this list.
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Undergraduate
Seminar on Advanced Computing - PACS is planning on tag-teaming
an advanced computing seminar in Fall 2007. This will be targeted to
undergraduate students wishing to become more familar with Linux,
software development, and compilers. More news soon!
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More
Information:
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Initiative Cluster (coming soon) |
Distributed
File System Technology
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Astronomy's STF Cluster
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Physics' STF Condor Cluster
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