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Here you will find information about changes in our hardware/software environment and other announcments and topics of interest.

2022

• 01. Apr.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.9.7
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.5.4
• 22. Mar. Noctua: Installed AMS 2022.102
• 07. Mar. OCULUS: Installed Gromacs 2021.3 with PLUMED 2.7.2
• 02. Mar.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed gurobi 9.5.1 See also: https://www.gurobi.com/products/gurobi-optimizer/whats-new-current-release/
    • we adapted lang/Python/3.9.5 and 3.9.6 to provide the gurobi package
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.5.3
  • Noctua: Installed Julia 1.7.2
• 01. Mar.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.9.5
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.7.1 for CPU and GPU (using CUDA-11.2 and cuDNN 8.1.0) as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 15. Feb. Noctua, OCULUS: Installed ORCA 5.0.3
• 01. Feb. Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.5.2
• 20. Jan. Noctua: Installed Matlab 2020b

2021

• 29. Dec.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Quantum ESPRESSO 7.0
• 21. Dec.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Quantum ESPRESSO 6.8
• 10. Dec.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed ORCA 5.0.2
• 02. Dec.
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.7.0 for CPU and GPU (using CUDA-11.2 and cuDNN 8.1.0) as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 01. Dec.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Julia-1.6.4 and Julia 1.7.0
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.9.1 See also https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases
• 19. Nov. Noctua, OCULUS: Installed xTB 6.2.3 as standalone program and as add-on for ORCA 4.2.1 and 5.0.1

• 16. Nov. Noctua, OCULUS: Installed gurobi 9.5.0 See also: https://www.gurobi.com/products/gurobi-optimizer/whats-new-current-release/
  • we adapted lang/Python/3.9.5-GCCcore-10.3.0 to provide the gurobi package
• 12. Nov.
  • OCULUS: Installed Nek5000 19.0
• 02. Nov.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.5.0
• 28. Oct.
  • Noctua: Installed Ansys 2021 R2
• 15. Oct.
  • Noctua: Installed TensorFlow/2.6.0-foss-2021a
• 13. Oct.
  • Noctua: Installed Totalview 21.3.9, a debugger for parallel applications (module load totalview)
• 08. Oct.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.4.2
• 07. Oct.
  • Noctua: Installed RStan 2.18.2
• 14. Sep.
  • OCULUS: Installed NVIDIA HPC SDK 21.7
• 10. Sep.
  • Noctua: Installed ARM FORGE 20.1.2
• 02. Sep.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.8.3
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.6.0 for CPU and GPU (using CUDA-11.2 and cuDNN 8.1.0) as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 27. Aug.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Toolchains foss-2021a and intel-2021a
• 03. Aug.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Julia 1.6.2
• 26. Jul.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed ORCA 5.0.1
• 14. Jul.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Amsterdam Modeling Suite (AMS). Accessible only for members of the Paderborn University
• 12. Jul.
  • OCULUS: Installed Texlive 2021
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.4.1, ORCA 5.0.0, and OpenMPI 4.1.1
• 05. Jul.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Quantum ESPRESSO 6.7
• 01. Jun.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Julia 1.6.1, Go 1.16.3, and Singularity 3.8.0
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.5.0 for CPU and GPU (using CUDA-11.2 and cuDNN 8.1.0) as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 03. May
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 9.1.2
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.7.3
• 14. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed Gromacs-2021-foss-2020a and Gromacs-2021-fosscuda-2020a
• 09. Apr.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed GCC 10.2.0
• 08. Apr.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.3.3
• 07. Apr.
  • Noctua: Installed GPAW 21.1.0
• 06. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed LLVM/Clang 11.1.0 with OpenMP GPU offloading
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Julia 1.6.0
• 26. Mar.
  • OCULUS: Installed Critic2
• 16. Mar.
  • Noctua: Installed R 4.0.0 (lang/R)
• 11. Feb.
  • OCULUS: Updated NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver to 460.32.03
  • OCULUS: Installed CUDA-11.2.1-GCC-9.3.0
• 04. Feb.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Gaussian 16 Rev. C.01. The release notes are in $PC2SW/GAUSSIAN/g16-c01/release_c01.txt.
• 01. Feb.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.7.1
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.4.1 for CPU and GPU (using CUDA-11 and cuDNN 8.0.4) as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 14. Jan.
  • Noctua, OCULUS:
    • Installed Toolchain Intel 2020b, comprising Intel-Compiler 2020.4.304, Intel-MPI 2019.9.304, and MKL 2020.4.304
    • Installed IntelPython 3.7.7-2020.4.912
• 04. Jan.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 9.1.1

2020

• 17. Dec.
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.4.0 for CPU and GPU (using CUDA-11 and cuDNN 8.0.4) as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 14. Dec.
  • Noctua: Installed Singularity 3.7.0
• 08. Dec.
  • OCULUS
    • Installed Julia 1.5.1
    • Installed chem/xtb/6.2.3-foss-2019b and the ORCA 4.2.1 plugin
    • Installed chem/LAMMPS/3Mar2020-foss-2020a-Python-3.8.2-kokkos
    • Installed Singularity 3.7.0
• 25. Nov.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Easybuild 4.3.1
  • OCULUS: Installed chem/QuantumESPRESSO/6.6-foss-2019b
• 04. Nov.
  • OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 9.1.0
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.6.4
  • OCULUS: Updated NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver to 450.80.02
  • OCULUS: Installed CUDA-11.0.207-GCC-9.3.0
  • OCULUS: Installed Gromacs-2020.4-foss-2019b and Gromacs-2020.4-fosscuda-2019b
• 26. Oct.
  • OCULUS: Installed LLVM/Clang 11.0.0 with OpenMP GPU offloading
• 07. Oct.
  • Noctua: Installed CP2K 7.1 (hybrid MPI-OpenMP build)
• 01. Oct.
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.6.3
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.3.1 for CPU and GPU as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 01. Sep.
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.6.2
• 20. Aug.
  • OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 9.0.3
• 05. Aug.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed OpenFoam-8 (module load cae/OpenFOAM/8-foss-2020a)
• 04. Aug.
  • Noctua: Installed Octopus 10.0 and Elk 6.8.4 Noctua-Software
• 03. Aug.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition 2020.02
    • module load intel/20.02 or module load intel/20.02_compilers
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.3 for CPU and GPU as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 24. Jul
  • Noctua: Installed Totalview a debugger for parallel applications (module load totalview)
• 23. Jul.
  • OCULUS installed 4 additional nodes each with one AMD EPYC 7282, 3.2GHz, 16 cores, 128 GByte main memory, two NVIDIA PNY RTX 2080 Ti (11 GByte)
    • OCULUS now provides 19 RTX2080Ti, 18 GTX1080Ti, and 19 Tesla K20
• 20. Jul
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.6.0
• 09. Jul.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Easybuild toolchains foss-2020a and gompi-2020a
    • Comprises: GCC 9.3.0, OpenMPI 4.0.3, OpenBLAS 0.3.9, FFTW 3.3.8, Scalapack 2.1.0, ...
• 07. Jul.
  • OCULUS: Updated NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver to 440.95.01
• 30. Jun.
  • OCULUS: Installed Abaqus 2020
• 16. Jun.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Easybuild 4.2.1
• 04. Jun.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed PGI Compiler Suite 20.4
  • OCULUS: Installed AmberTools (serial version)
• 10. May
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.2 for CPU and GPU as Singularity images in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 22 Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed Matlab R2020a
• 21. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed 5 additional GPUs Nvidia RTX2080Ti.
    • OCULUS now provides 11 RTX2080Ti, 18 GTX1080Ti, and 19 Tesla K20
• 15. Apr.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed PGI Compiler Suite 20.1
• 09. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed 4 additional GPUs Nvidia RTX2080Ti
• 02. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 9.0.1
• 23. Mar.
  • Noctua: Updated Cray programming environment to version 20.02
• 03. Mar.
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.5.3
• 28. Feb.
  • OCULUS: Installed Clang 11 (bootstrapped with libstdc++ from GCC 8.3.0)
    • Better support for CUDA 10.1
    • Some bugs in Clang 9.0.1 have been fixed
• 26. Feb.
  • OCULUS: Installed Python 3.7.4
  • OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow 2.1 for GPU as Singularity image in $PC2SW/SINGULARITY/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 18. Feb.
  • Noctua: Installed OpenMolcas 18.09
• 10. Feb. until 17. Feb. OCULUS Maintenance
  • During the maintenance, we did:
    • Update the BeeGFS parallel file system ($PC2PFS) to version 7.1.4
    • Installed a small CCS-dashboard (try ccsdashboard)
    • Prepare the installation of new GPUs (will be installed as soon as they arrive at our site).
    • OCULUS now has:
      • 1 node with 2 RTX2080
      • 13 nodes with 1 GTX1080
      • 2 nodes with 2 GTX1080
      • 14 nodes with 1 Tesla K20
      • 7 nodes with 2 Tesla K20
• 03. Feb.
  • OCULUS: Installed SCIP 6.0.2
• 21. Jan.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Ansys 2020 R1
• 20. Jan.
  • OCULUS: Installed Clang/LLVM 9.0.1 with OpenMP offloading
• 03. Jan.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Gromacs 2020
  • OCULUS: Installed CUDA 10.2.89 and NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver 440.33.01
• 02. Jan.
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.5.2

2019

• 20. Dec.
  • Noctua: Installed Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition 2020
    • module load intel/20.0.0 or module load intel/20.0.0_compilers
  • OCULUS: Installed GCC 9.2.0-offload with OpenMP and OpenACC support for offloading computation on GPU
    • module load gcc/9.2.0-offload
• 18. Dec.
  • OCULUS: Installed Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition 2020
    • module load intel/20.0.0 or module load intel/20.0.0_compilers
• 09. Dec.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Git 2.23
  • OCULUS: Installed cmake 3.15
• 05. Dec.
  • Noctua: Installed Go 1.13.1
  • Noctua: Installed Singularity 3.5.0
• 02. Dec.
  • OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 9.0.0
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.5.0
  • OCULUS: Installed Go 1.13.1
  • OCULUS: Installed Matlab 2019b
• 13. Nov.
  • OCULUS: Installed OpenJDK 11
• 8. Nov.
  • Noctua: Installed OpenJDK 1.8 and 11
• 4. Nov.
  • OCULUS: Installed ORCA 4.2.1
• 21. Oct.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed EasyBuild 4.0.1
• 2. Oct.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.4.1
  • OCULUS: Installed new Singularity images for Tensorflow 1.14 and 2.0.0 on GPUs using CUDA 10 to $SINGULARITYHOME/Images
• 1. Oct.
  • OCULUS: Installed ORCA 4.2.0
• 9. Sept.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 74 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 13. Aug.
  • Noctua
    • Installed Singularity 3.3.0
    • Installed EasyBuild 3.9.3
  • OCULUS:
    • OpenCCS: the new command ccstracejob prints log- and accounting-data of completed jobs.
    • Installed Singularity 3.3.0
    • Installed EasyBuild 3.9.3
• 8. Aug.
  • OCuLUS: replaced Tesla K20 with NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti in gpu002 and gpu011
• 5. Aug.
  • HLRS: Course "Parallel Programming Workshop (MPI, OpenMP and Advanced Topics)", Oct. 14-18 2019, https://www.hlrs.de/training/2019-10-14-PAR/
• 17. Jul.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 73 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 09. Jul.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Intel Parallel Studio 2019 update-4
• 21. Jun.
  • HLRS: Course "Advanced C++ with Focus on Software Engineering" [German], July 9-12 2019, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2019/CPP2
• 19. Jun.
  • Noctua: Installed OpenFOAM-5.0
  • OCULUS: Installed OpenFOAM-6
• 11. Jun.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 72 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 4. Jun.
  • KIT: GridKa School 2019: "The Art of Data", August 26, 2019, https://indico.scc.kit.edu/event/460/
• 28. May
  • PC2: Course "Advanced Topics of HPC", July 11, https://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/teaching/trainings/hpc-user-trainings/advanced-topics-of-hpc/
• 25. May
  • OCULUS: Installed CUDA 10.1.105 and CUDA-Driver 418.67 on all Tesla and GTX nodes.
• 23. May
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.2.0
• 09. May
  • PC2: Course "HPC Introduction Course", May 23, https://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/teaching/trainings/hpc-user-trainings/hpc-introduction-course/
• 02. May
  • PC2: Training "Productive Design for Intel FPGAs – Combining HLS with lower-level Tools", May 20, 2019, https://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/teaching/trainings/intel-fpga-training/
• 30. Apr.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Gromacs 2019
• 18. Apr.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 71 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 16. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 8.1.1
• 12. Apr.
  • HLRS/RRZE: Course "Node-Level Performance Engineering", June 27+28, HLRS Stuttgart, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2019/NLP
• 11. Apr.
  • Noctua: Cray Programming Environment (Cray PE) 19.04 installed
• 10. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed ORCA 4.1.2
• 04. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed OpenCCS 0.9.8-5. New features are:
    • Manager Role, Hold/Resume, Excluding jobs from mapping, Background jobs, Resource credit handling.
    • Refer to the User-Manual Chapter 3.1, for detalled information about the new features.
• 15. Mar.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 70 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 11. Mar.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Intel Parallel Studio 2019 update-3
• 08. Mar.
  • OCULUS: Installed Matlab 2018b
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.1.0
• 06. Mar.
  • OCULUS: Installed ORCA 4.1.1
• 28. Feb.
  • OCULUS: Installed a new Singularity image for Tensorflow 1.13 on GPUs using CUDA 10 to $SINGULARITYHOME/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 12. Feb.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 69 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 07. Feb.
  • Noctua, OCULUS: Installed Intel Parallel Studio 2019 update-2
• 06. Jan.
  • Cineca: Workshop "Energy Efficiency in HPC @Cineca", Feb. 21-22, Cineca Bologna, https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/833/
• 31. Jan.
  • ARMINIUS, OCULUS: Installed OpenCCS 0.9.8-4. Refer to the User-Manual for the new features.
• 21. Jan.
  • HLRS/Uni.Siegen: Course "Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics" [German], Feb 18-22 2019, Uni Siegen, https://www.hlrs.de/training/2019-02-18-cfd-siegen/
  • HLRS: Course "Simulation on High-Performance Computers - Simulation", Mar 11 2019, https://www.hlrs.de/training/2019-03-11/
• 17. Jan.
  • HLRS: Course "Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization", March 25-29 2019, http://www.hlrs.de/events/training/detail-view/2019-03-25-ITER-S/
• 10. Jan.
  • OCULUS, Noctua: Installed EasyBuild 3.8.0
• 07. Jan.
  • Noctua: Installed Singularity 3.0.2 and Go 1.11.4

2018

• 20. Dec.
  • HLRS: new HPC training courses are available: https://www.hlrs.de/training/
• 19. Dec.
  • OCULUS: Installed Go 1.11.4
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 3.0.1 (module load/singularity/3.0.1)
  • Slides of the "PC² User Meeting 2018" are now available https://pc2.uni-paderborn.de/go/usermeeting2018/
• 18. Dec.
  • OCULUS, Noctua: Installed EasyBuild 3.7.1
• 12. Dec.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 68 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 10. Dec.
  • JSC: Course "Parallel and Scalable Machine Learning", 25-27 Feb. 2019, http://fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/events/machine-learning
• 04. Dec.
  • HLRS: Course "MPI+X / Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC", 28-29 Jan. 2019, LRZ, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2019/HY-G
• 26. Nov.
  • Oculus, Noctua: Installed Intel Parallel Studio 2019 update1
• 09. Nov.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 67 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 22.Oct.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 8.1.0
• 12.Oct.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 66 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 11. Sep.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 65 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 05. Sep.
  • OCULUS: Installed a new Singularity image for Tensorflow 1.10 on GPUs to $SINGULARITYHOME/Images/TENSORFLOW
• 03. Sep.
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 2.6.0
• 15. Aug.
  • OpenCCS: Added predicition of job start times. Refer to the User-Manual chapter 7 or the ccsinfo man page for this new feature.
• 01. Aug.
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 2.5.2
• 23. Jul.
  • ARMINIUS, OCULUS Installed Mono 5.12.0
• 18. Jul.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 64 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 16. Jul.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: Installed OpenCCS 0.9.8-3. Refer to the User-Manual for the new features.
• 11. Jul.
  • HLRS: Course "Parallel Programming Workshop (MPI, OpenMP and Advanced Topics)" Oct 15-19, 2018, https://www.hlrs.de/events/training/detail-view/2018-10-15-PAR/
• 29. Jun.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: Installed Gaussian 16-B01 (module add g16). Example job script: $PC2SW/examples/g16.sh
• 11. Jun.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 63 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 17. May
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity 2.5.1
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity image: Tensorflow 1.8 with CUDA 9 and CUDNN 7
• 09. May
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 62 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 08. May
  • OCULUS: Installed ANSYS-190 (without RSM support)
• 04. May
  • OCULUS: Installed gcc 8.1.0
• 30. Apr.
  • HLRS: Course "Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF)", July 5-6, 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/UPC1
• 25. Apr.
  • HLRS: Course "Concepts of GASPI and interoperability with other communication APIs", July 2-3, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/GASPI
• 23. Apr.
  • HLRS: Course "Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC", June 19, 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/HY-S
• 20. Apr.
  • HLRS/NAG: Course "Fortran Modernization Workshop", June 12-13, 2018, https://www.hlrs.de/events/training/detail-view/2018-06-12-NAG/
• 12. Apr.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: Installed Matlab R2017a and R2018a
• 29. Mar.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: Installed Gurobi 7.5.2
  • HLRS: Course "Node-Level Performance Engineering", June 14-15, 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/NLP
• 9. Mar.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 61 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 12. Feb.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 60 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 30. Jan.
  • OCULUS: Updated CUDA driver and installed CUDA-9
  • Installed Singularity image with Tensorflow 1.5, CUDA-9
• 29. Jan.
  • HLRS: Course"Parallelization with MPI and OpenMP", April 9-12, 2018, ZDV, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/MAINZ
• 26. Jan.
  • HLRS: Course "Fortran for Scientific Computing", April 9, 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/FTN1
• 18. Jan.
  • HLRS: Course "Introduction to Parallel Programming with HPX", March 15-16, 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/HPX
• 16. Jan.
  • HLRS: Course "OpenMP GPU Directives for Parallel Accelerated Supercomputers - an alternative to CUDA from Cray perspective", March 12-13, 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/events/training/detail-view/2018-03-12-GPU/

2017

• 19. Dec.
  • HLRS: Course "CFD with OpenFOAM" (in German), March 5-9, 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/OF1
• 14. Dec.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 59 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 8. Dec.
  • HLRS: Course "Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization" (in German), March 19-23 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/events/training/detail-view/2018-03-19-ITER-S/
• 7. Dec.
  • HLRS: Course "Einführung in die Numerische Strömungsmechanik" (in German), Uni Siegen, Feb. 19-23rd 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2018/CFD-SIEGEN
• 5. Dec.
  • HLRS: Course "Parallel Programming with MPI, OpenMP, and Tools", ZIT, Feb. 12-16th 2018, http://www.hlrs.de/events/training/detail-view/2018-02-12-ZIH/
• 28. Nov.
  • OCULUS: Installed gcc 7.2.0 with support for OpenACC offloading. Refer to $PC2SW/examples/OpenACC
• 16. Nov.
  • GA: HPC-Status-Konferenz der Gauß-Allianz, 4. und 5. Dez. 2018, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/hpc-status-konferenz-2017
• 15. Nov.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 58 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
  • HLRS: Course "Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC", Jan 07, 2018, https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2018-01-18_hhyp1w17/
• 14. Nov.
  • ARMINIUS, OCULUS: Installed Singularity 2.4.0
  • ARMINIUS, OCULUS: Installed Tensorflow-GPU 1.4 using Singularity 2.4.0
• 13. Nov.
  • ARMINIUS,HTC,OCULUS: Addedd Mono 5.4.0
• 07. Nov.
  • OCULUS: Installed Chapel 1.16.0
• 23. Oct.
  • Intel Online Seminars: "Parallel Programming Standards Update: MPI, OpenMP and Intel TBB", Nov. 1th"
• 20. Oct.
  • ARMINIUS,HTC,OCULUS: Installed Anaconda 3-5.0.0.1
• 17. Oct.
  • OCULUS: OpenCCS update to 0.9.8-2 (refer to the User-Manual for the new
• 13. Oct.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 57 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 12. Oct.
  • Installed TensorFlow-GPU 1.3 as Singularity image for OCULUS and ARMINIUS (module add tensorflow)
• 10. Oct.
  • Online Courses "OpenACC - Introduction + Advanced", https://developer.nvidia.com/openacc-courses
• 06: Oct.
  • HTC: OpenCCS update to 0.9.8-2 (refer to the User-Manual for the new features).
• 15. Sep.
  • OCULUS: Installed 16 Nvidia GTX1080 GPUs in 8 nodes (ccsalloc --res=rset=gtx1080=1 ...)
• 11. Sep.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 56 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 31. Aug.
  • OCULUS: Installed Abaqus 6.14
• 08. Aug.
  • HLRS: Course "Introduction to the Cray XC40 HPC System at HLRS", Sep. 19th, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017/XC40-2
  • HLRS: Workshop "Parallel Programming Workshop (MPI, OpenMP and Advanced Topics)", Oct. 16th-20th, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017-10-16-par/
• 04. Aug.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 55 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 01. Aug.
  • OCULUS: installed ORCA 4.0.1
• 20. Jul.
  • Installed SINGULARITY on ARMINIUS
• 17. Jul.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: installed Gurobi 7.5.0
• 30. Jun.
  • ARMINIUS, OCULUS, HTC: Installed Anaconda 3-4.4.0 including Intel Python (module add anaconda)
• 19. Jun.
  • OCULUS: Installed Singularity image FEniCS 2017.1
• 12. Jun.
  • OCULUS: Installed CUDA-8
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 54 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 8. Jun.
  • Installed SINGULARITY on OCULUS
• 4. Ma
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 53 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 27. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed: MEEP and MPB
• 24. Apr.
  • HLRS Course "Efficient parallel Programming with GASPI", July 3-4, 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017/GASPI
• 21. Apr.
  • OCULUS: Installed ABINIT version 8.2.2
• 11. Apr.
  • HLRS Training "Introduction to UPC and Co-Array Fortran", June 29-30, 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017-06-29-upc1/
• 10. Apr.
  • HTCluster is now using OpenCCS as workload manager.
• 6. Apr.
  • HLRS: Training "Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC", June 12, 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017/HY-S
• 31. Mar.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: Installed valgrind 3.12.0
• 15. Mar.
  • HTC: Installed gcc 6.3.0
  • OCuLUS: Installed ORCA 4.0.0 (module add orca/4.0.0)
  • OCuLUS: Installed OpenMPI 2.0.2
• 10. Mar.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 52 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 15. Feb.
  • RWTH Aachen: Seminar "Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science", March 20 - 24, 2017, http://www.itc.rwth-aachen.de/ppces
• 13. Feb.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 51 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 26. Jan.
  • HLRS: Training "Introduction to Parallel Programming with HPX", Mar 09. 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017-03-09-hpx/
  • HLRS: Training "Advanced C++ with Focus on Software Engineering", Mar 14.-17. 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017-03-14-cpp1/
  • HLRS: Training "CFD with OpenFOAM", Apr. 3.-7. 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017-04-03-of1/
• 23. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: Installed Python 3.6.0
• 18. Jan.
  • HLRS: Training "OpenMP GPU Directives for Parallel Accelerated Supercomputers - an alternative to CUDA from Cray perspective", Mar. 7.+8. 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017/GPU

2016

• 15. Dez.
  • PRACE PATC Course: "Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC",LRZ-Garching, Jan 12, 2017, http://events.prace-ri.eu/e/LRZ-2017-HHYP1W16
• 14. Dec.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 50 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 16. Nov.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: Installed Mono 4.6.2 and Python 3.5.2
• 14. Nov.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 49 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 3. Nov.
  • OCuLUS: Dalton 2016.2 is installed
• 2. Nov.
  • OCuLUS: NAMD version 2.11 is installed
• 28. Oct.
  • OCULUS: BigDFT version 1.7.7, an ab initio code based on Daubechies wavelets, is installed.
• 27. Oct.
  • OCULUS: Quantum version 6.0 is installed.
  • ZIH TU Dresden: Workshop "Parallel Programming with MPI, OpenMP, and Tools", Feb. 20-24, 2017, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2017/ZIH
• 26. Oct.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: installed Gurobi 7.0.0
  • OCULUS: CP2K version 4.1 is installed.
• 24. Oct.
  • OCULUS: OpenFOAM version 4.1 is installed.
• 21. Oct.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC, OCULUS: installed Matlab R2016b
  • OCULUS: Quantum Espresso version 6.0 is installed.
• 18. Oct.
  • OCULUS is available again.
    • We did a major upgrade of
      • the operating system (from SL-6.4 to SL-7.2), Linux kernel is now 3.10-327.36 and glibc is 2.17
      • the parallel file system (/scratch, $PC2SCRATCH) (from FhGFS 2014 to BeeGFS 2015.03-r18)
      • the drivers for Infiniband, GPUs, MIC cards
    • Due to the upgrade
      • all submitted jobs are lost. Please re-submit.
      • all hosts got new host-keys. Remove your $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts
      • you have to re-compile your openmpi applications
    • We tried to install all necessary packages and checked a lot of the installed software in $PC2SW. However, it might happen that something works not as expected. In such a case, please send an email to pc2-gurus@uni-paderborn.de

• 10. Oct.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 48 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 29. Sep.
  • ARMINIUS, HTC: installed Mono 4.6.0
• 28. Sep.
  • LRZ: Intel Workshop "HPC Code Modernization", 25./26. Oct., LRZ Garchingen, http://www.inteldevconference.com/events/intel-code-modernization-workshop-munich/
  • LRZ: Intel Workshop "Application Optimization", 26. Oct., LRZ Garchingen, https://intel-optimization-training.eventbrite.co.uk/
• 26. Sep.
  • MathWorks: Workshop "Datenanalytik & Big Data mit MATLAB", 12. Oktober, Uni. Paderborn, https://go2.mathworks.com/data-analytics-and-big-data-with-matlab-sem-de-1695359?ul=de&uc=DE
• 15. Sep.
  • OCULUS/ARMINIUS: OpenMPI version 1.10.4 is installed.
• 12. Sep.
  • OCULUS: OpenFOAM version 4.0 is installed.
• 9.Sep.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 47 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 2. Sep.
  • Intel: New "Development Tools Online Seminars" available
• 19 Aug.
  • OCULUS: GROMACS version 5.1.3 is installed.
• 17. Aug.
  • OCULUS: Installed OpenCCS 0.9.8 (New feature: Job-Array support). Refer to $PC2SW/doc/OpenCCSUserGuide.pdf for more information.
• 10. Aug.
  • JSC: Advanced Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP, Nov 28-30, Juelich, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016/JSC

• 5. Aug.
  • Gurobi Online Seminar "Introduction to Modeling with Python and Gurobi"
• 28. Jul.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 46 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 26. Jul.
  • ARMINIUS: Installed OpenCCS 0.9.8 (New feature: Job-Array support). Refer to $PC2SW/doc/OpenCCSUserGuide.pdf for more information.
• 22. Jul.
  • OCuLUS, ARMINIUS, HTC: SCIP 3.2.1 installed
• 18. Jul.
  • OCuLUS, ARMINIUS, HTC: Turbomole 7.1 and TmoleX16 installed
• 28. Jun
  • HLRS: Parallel Programming Workshop (MPI, OpenMP, and advanced topics), Oct 17th-21th, https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/509/
• 20. Jun.
  • OCuLUS: Intel installed Release 2016 update-4
• 10. Jun.
  • ARMINIUS, OCuLUS, and HTC: Installed Ruby 2.3.1
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 45 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 13. May
  • HTC: installed Mono 4.5.0
• 12. May
  • ARMINIUS: installed Mono 4.3.2
  • Intel Development Tools Seminars: e.g. "How NUMA Affects your Workloads- Intel VTune Amplifier"
• 11. May
  • RWTH Aachen: "Performance Optimisation and Productivity Centre of Excellence in Computing Applications" provides program code optimisation services, https://pop-coe.eu
• 9. May
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 44 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 15. Apr.
  • HTC: installed Mono 4.5.0
• 8. Apr.
  • Arminius & OCuLUS & HTC: Matlab R2016a installed.
• 5. Apr.
  • OCuLUS: Open Source Multiphysical Simulation Software version 8.2 installed.
  • HLRS Course "Node-Level Performance Engineering", June 27-28, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016/NLP
• 31. Mar.
  • OCuLUS: Deep Learning Framework version 1.0.0rc3 is installed.
• 29. Mar.
  • HLRS Course "Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC", June 13, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016/HY-S
• 18.Mar.
  • HTC: Added 30 nodes (each with 8 cores and 24GB RAM). System has now 650 cores.
  • LRZ Workshop " VI-HPS Tuning", April 18-22 , https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2016-04-18_hhps1s16
• 8. Mar.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 43 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 26. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: version 2.2b is installed.
  • HLRS Course "UPC & Coarray Fortran", June 2-3, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016-06-02-upc1
  • HLRS Course "Efficient parallel Programming with GASPI", June 6-7, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016-06-06-gaspi
• 25. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: version 1.10.2 is installed.
  • HLRS Course "GPU Programming using CUDA", March 14-16, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016/CUDA1
• 23. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: version 5.4.1 installed with GPU supported.
• 18. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: OpenFst Library version 1.5.1 is installed.
• 8. Feb.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 42 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 5. Feb.
  • HLRS Course "Advanced C++ with Focus on Software Engineering", April 20-22, 2016, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016-04-20-cpp1/
• 4. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: Ansys 17.0 is installed.
• 3. Feb.
  • HLRS Course "OpenMP and OpenACC GPU Directives for Parallel Accelerated Supercomputers - an alternative to CUDA from Cray perspective", March 17, 2016, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016-03-17-xk/
• 26. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: CUDA 7.0 installed (try module avail cuda70)
• 20. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: , Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures, version 1.7.0 is installed.
  • HLRS Course "Fortran for Scientific Computing", April 4-8, 2016, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2016/FTN1
• 18. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: CUDA 6.5 installed (try module avail cuda65)
  • OCuLUS: ,Parallel Linear Algebra Software for Multicore Architectures, version 2.8.0 is installed
• 15. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: Intel , performance analysis tool, is installed
• 12. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: OpenCCS update. New features: automatic job priorities, Node minimal resources. For more detailed information refer to the User-Manual in $PC2SW/doc
• 7. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: gcc 5.2.0 installed
• 6. Jan.
  • ARMINIUS: Intel Compiler 15.0.1 and MKL 11.2 installed
• 5. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: FFTW Version 3.3.4 installed

2015

• 11. Dec.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 41 erschienen, https://gauss-allianz.de/de/info_letter
• 30. Nov.
  • Arminius: upgraded operating system to CentOS 6.6
  • Arminius: installed GNU compiler suite 5.0.2
  • Arminius: installed OpenMPI 1.8.8
• 17. Nov.
  • OCuLUS: GROMACS version 5.1.1 is installed.
• 10. Nov.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 40 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 23. Oct.
  • HLRS Course "Fortran for Scientific Computing", Dec. 7th - Dec. 11th 2015, http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2015/FTN2
• 13. Oct.
  • OCuLUS, ARMINIUS, HTC: Turbomole 7.01, Turbomole 7.01-huge, and TmoleX15 installed
• 12. Oct.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 39 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 5. Oct.
  • JSC Kurs "Fortgeschrittene Parallelprogrammierung mit MPI und OpenMP", Nov 30th - Dec 1st 2015, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2015/JSC
• 2. Oct.
  • Intel Seminar: "From Serial to Awesome: Advanced Code Vectorization and Optimization ", Oct 20th
• 17. Sep.
  • OCuLUS: Unified Parallel C Compiler and Runtime installed
• 11. Sep.
  • HLRS Course "GPU Programming using CUDA", Oct 26-28th, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2015/CUDA2
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 38 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 10. Sep.
  • OCuLUS: GROMACS version 5.1 is installed.
• 27. Aug.
  • GUROBI Seminar "Parallel and Distributed Optimization with Gurobi" http://www.gurobi.com/resources/seminars-and-videos/parallel-and-distributed-optimization
• 12. Aug.
  • HLRS Workshop "Parallel Programming", 28th Sep.- 2nd Oct., http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2015/PAR
• 4. Aug.
  • OCuLUS: PETSc (Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation) version 3.6.1 is installed. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/features/index.html
• 3. Aug.
  • OCuLUS: HOOMD version 1.1.1 is installed
• 30. Jul.
  • ARMINIUS: Upgraded Gurobi from 5.6 to 6.0 including the python bindings for python 2.7.6
• 29. Jul.
  • HTC: Upgraded Gurobi from 5.6 to 6.0 including the python bindings for python 2.7.8
• 23. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: Quantum Espresso Version 5.2.0 installed
• 21. Jul.
  • HLRS Workshop "Einführung in die Numerische Strömungsmechanik auf Hochleistungsrechnern", 14.- 18. September 2015, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2015/CFD-S
• 20. Jul.
  • COMSOL Multipyhsics HPC Software licensing information https://cdn.comsol.com/rtgplus/COMSOL_HPC_Software_License_eng.pdf
• 13. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: The HPC-System is still on the top500 list (#421) http://top500.org/list/2015/06/?page=5
  • OCuLUS: Decreased the size of the vsmp01 node from 256 cores to 32 cores. Please send an Email to pc2-gurus@upb.de if you need more cores on vsmp01.
  • HTC: added 24 nodes with 128 cores.
• 10. Jul.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 37 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 1. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: Version 1.11.0 of the PGAS language CHAPEL is installed.
• 24. Jun.
  • OCuLUS: LAMMPS 15Feb2015 with CUDA package installed
• 19. Jun.
  • OCuLUS: R-Project version 3.2.1 is installed
• 18. Jun.
  • HTC: JAGS 3.4.0 installed
  • OCuLUS: HOOMD version 1.0.5 with GPU support is installed
• 9. Jun.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 36 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 2. Jun.
  • OCuLUS: OCTAVE version 4.0.0 with "parallel package" is installed
• 28. May
  • HLRS Course "User-Guided Optimization in High-Level Languages", July, 8th 2015, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2015/UGO
• 18. May
  • OCuLUS: mvapich2 2.1 installed
• 12. May
  • Intel Software Tools Technical Seminars: "MPI performance analysis", "Xeon Phi's in Clusters", "vTune and OpenMP"
• 11. May
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 35 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 8. May
  • OCuLUS: Mono 4.0.0 installed
  • OCuLUS: added brief instructions document to $PC2SW/doc
• 14. Apr.
  • HTC: MathGL installed.
• 9. Apr.
  • OCuLUS: ScaLAPACK 2.0.2 and LAPACK 3.5.0 are installed.
  • OCuLUS: Quantum ESPRESSO version 5.1.2 is installed.
• 8. Apr.
  • OCuLUS: AMD Core Math Library version 6.1.0 is installed.
• 7. Apr.
  • INTEL Software Tools Seminars: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/home.html
• 31. Mar.
  • OCuLUS: Version 2.6.0 of CP2K installed.
• 27 Mar.
  • OCuLUS & HTC: Matlab R2015a installed.
• 9. Mar.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 34 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 27. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: openmpi 1.8.4 installed
• 26. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: Scalasca 2.2 installed
• 16. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: GROMACS version 5.0.4 installed.
• 13. Feb.
  • HLRS Course "GPU Programming using CUDA", Apr., 20-22., http://www.hlrs.de/training/2015/CUDA1
• 6. Feb.
  • Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief Nr. 33 erschienen, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 5. Feb.
  • HTC: Torque update from 3.0.2 to 4.2.9
  • ANSYS Training for Academics "CFD for Engineering Students", " FEA for Engineering Students", "Electromagnetics for Engineering Students", http://www.ansys.com/About+ANSYS/Events
• 30. Jan.
  • RWTH Aachen Frühjahrsveranstaltung Parallelprogrammierung am IT Center, 16.- 20. März, http://www.itc.rwth-aachen.de/ppces
• 26. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: Intel Compiler 15.0.1 and Intel MKL 11.2 installed
• 23. Jan.
  • HLRS Workshop "Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF)", Apr. 23-24., http://events.prace-ri.eu/event/HLRS-2015-UPC1
• 20. Jan.
  • HLRS Training Course "OpenACC Programming for Accelerated Supercomputers (includes new OpenACC 2.0)", Apr. 16.-17., http://www.hlrs.de/training/2015/XK
• 16 Jan.
  • HTC: Mono 2.10.8 installed
• 15. Jan.
  • OCuLUS: OCTAVE version 3.8.2 is installed
• 13. Jan.
  • HLRS Training Course "FORTRAN for Scietific Computing", Mar. 9.-13., 2015, http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2015/FTN1
• 07. Jan.
  • OCuLUS / ARMINIUS OpenCCS update
    • New Features (Refer also the User-Manual Chapter 3.1):
      • Matching Unset Resources
      • Administrator may specify a limit with respect to alter walltime. This limit is checked for running jobs.
      • Administrator may specify a job count limit to a group or user.
      • Administrator may specify attributes which overwrite the user given ones.
      • ccsinfo -l --user=ALL shows limits of all specified users in the group.

2014

• 22. Dec.
  • OCuLUS: OpenModelica is installed
• 19. Dec.
  • GA: Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 32, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 2. Dec.
  • OCuLUS: ParaView 4.2.0 installed
• 18. Nov.
  • OCuLUS: After almost two years of operation, OCuLUS is now on position (#345) in the world (Top500 list), http://top500.org/list/2014/11/?page=4
• 17. Nov.
  • OCuLUS: NAMD version 2.10b2 installed
• 10. Nov.
  • GA: Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 31, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 7. Nov
  • GA: 4. HPC-Status-Konferenz der Gauß-Allianz in Aachen, RWTH, 8.+9. Dez. 2014, http://gauss-allianz.de/de/veranstaltungen/441
• 4. Nov
  • ZIH: Parallel Programming (MPI, OpenMP) and Tools, Feb. 16-20, 2015, http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2015/ZIH
• 29. Oct
  • OCuLUS: PGI Accelerator Fortran,C and C++ Compilers with OpenACC Support is installed
• 28. Oct
  • OCuLUS: ABINIT version 7.8.2 with GPU support is installed
• 24. Oct
  • OCuLUS: HOOMD version 1.0.1 with GPU support is installed
• 15. Oct
  • OCuLUS and HTC: ARGOS installed
• 10. Oct.
  • GA: Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 30, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 9. Oct
  • HTC: Re-launch of the High-Throughput Cluster HT-Cluster. It's purpose is to support throughput computing for node-local jobs with no timeout.
• 2. Oct.
  • OCuLUS: Octave version 3.8.1 installed
• 26. Sep.
  • JSC/HLRS: Training course "Introduction to parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP", Dec. 1.-3., 2014, http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2014/JSC
• 24. Sep.
  • LRZ: Intel Parallel Computing Center Workshop "Xeon Phi Coprocessor", Oct. 20.–21., http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2014-10-20_hmic1w14/
• 18. Sep.
  • Intel Seminar: MPI-3 Is Here - Optimize and Perform with Intel MPI Tools, Oct. 7., https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/home.html
• 15. Sep.
  • OCuLUS: Gromacs version 5.0.1 installed
• 12. Sep.
  • GA: Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 29, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 10. Sep.
  • OCuLUS/HTC: Installed Matlab R2014a on OCuLUS and HTC
• 11. Aug.
  • HLRS: Progamming Course "GPU Programming using CUDA", Oct. 22.-24., http://www.hlrs.de/training/2014/CUDA2
• 28. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: HOOMD, a general-purpose particle simulation toolkit, latest version 1.0.0 with CPU and GPU support is installed
• 24. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: Quantum ESPRESSO 5.1 is installed
• 18. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: $PC2SCRATCH is available on the Xeon Phi coprocessors in native-mode
• 10. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: LAMMPS, an open source molecular dynamics code, is installed
  • GA: Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 28, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
  • MathWorks: Seminar "Machine Learning with MATLAB", 17th July
  • MathWorks: Seminar "GPU Computing with MATLAB", 22nd July
• 9. Jul.
  • OCuLUS: CilkPlusSDK installed
• 7. Jul.
  • JSC: Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP, August 5th-8th, http://www.gauss-centre.eu/SharedDocs/Termine/GAUSS-CENTRE/EN/2014/jsc-mpi-guest-student-2014.html
• 4. Jul.
  • JSC: High-Performance Computing with Python, June 26th/27th, http://www.gauss-centre.eu/SharedDocs/Termine/GAUSS-CENTRE/EN/2014/jsc-hpc--python-2014.html
• 2. Jul.
  • MathWorks: Seminar "Exakte Lösungen mit Computeralgebra in MATLAB", 15.Jul., 10:00h
• 26 Jun.
  • OCuLUS: Turbomole 6.6 and TmoleX14 installed
• 23. Jun.
  • OCuLUS: In the new top500 list, OCuLUS with its pure CPU-power is still on an excellent position (#280), http://top500.org/list/2014/06/?page=3
• 18 Jun.
  • HLRS/LRZ: Iterative Linear Solvers and Parallelization in Garching (in German)", September 15th-19th, http://www.hlrs.de/training/2014/ITER-G
• 10 Jun.
  • OCuLUS: GSL - GNU Scientific Library installed.
• 6 Jun.
  • OCuLUS: CP2K 2.5.1 installed.
• 5. Jun.
  • GA: Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 27, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 4 Jun.
  • OCuLUS: mvapich2 2.0rc2 installed. It's an MPI-3 implementation based on MPICH ADI3 layer.
• 26 May
  • HLRS: Programming Course "Node-Level Performance Engineering", July 14th-15th, http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2014/NLP
• 22 May
  • OCuLUS/ARMINIUS: Installed ORCA release 3.0.2
• 15 Apr.
  • Gaussian-Workshop in Ulm: "Introduction to Gaussian" July 28th through August 1st: http://www.gaussian.com/g_ws/ulm_14.htm
• 9. Apr.
  • GA: Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 26, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
  • OCuLUS: OpenCCS manages native job execution on Xeon Phi coprocessors
• 17. Mar.
  • OCuLUS: Gromacs Version 4.6.5 installed
• 12. Mar.
  • Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 25, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 6. Mar.
  • PRACE@LRZ: Course "Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing", 31.Mar-3.Apr., http://events.prace-ri.eu/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=221
• 4. Mar.
  • MathWorks: Seminar "2^48 - keine Angst vor großen Datensätzen mit MATLAB", 19.Mrz., https://de.mathworks.com/videos.html
• 3. Mar.
  • OCuLUS: The CHAPEL parallel programming language is installed in version 1.8.0
• 24. Feb.
  • OCuLUS: OpenCCS manages program execution offload to Xeon Phi coprocessors
• 19. Feb.
  • HLRS: Programming Course "Introduction to Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Co-array Fortran (CAF)", April 14th/15th, http://events.prace-ri.eu/event/HLRS-2014-UPC1
• 18 Feb.
  • OCuLUS: System is online again. All filessystems are switched to the Campus Storage.
• 10 Feb.
  • ARMINIUS: System is online again. All filessystems are switched to the Campus Storage.
• 7. Feb.
  • Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 24, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 4. Feb.
  • MathWorks: Seminar "Computergestützte Statistik mit MATLAB"
• 13 Jan.
  • OCuLUS: GHMM General Hidden Markov Model library (GHMM) with bindings for Python 2.7 installed.

2013

• 16 Dec.
  • Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 23, http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief
• 12 Dec.
  • OCuLUS: NWChem Version 6.3 Revision 2 installed.
• 10 Dec.
  • OCuLUS: Installed Matlab Distributed Computing Environment and Parallel Toolbox inlcuding GPU support.
• 09 Dec.
  • OCuLUS: Installed Python 3.3.3
• 06 Dec.
  • ARMINIUS, OCuLUS: Installed SciPy and Gurobi
• 20 Nov.
  • Ansys: Seminar-Registrierung "Bessere Ergebnisse schneller liefern - Einsatz von High Performance Computing für ANSYS Simulationen" https://marketing.ansys.com/wt/lt.do?m2lc=284375134-1009-1367388222

• 18 Nov.
  • OCuLUS is on position 224 in the Top500 list of November 2013. Remember, OCuLUS entered the list in June 2013 on position 173. http://www.top500.org/list/2013/11/?page=3

• 13 Nov.
  • OCuLUS: OpenFOAM Version 2.2.2 is installed
• 11 Nov.
  • Neuer Gauss-Allianz-Infobrief erschienen: GA-Infobrief Nr. 22 http://www.gauss-allianz.de/de/infobrief

• 8 Nov,
  • OCuLUS Hardware-Update
    • 2 new SMP nodes with each 1TB memory (smp03 and smp04)
    • 1 virtual SMP node (vsmp01) with 256 cores and 4 TB memory (refer to vSMP)
  • OCuLUS Software-Update
    • Operating system is now Scientific Linux release 6.4
    • Intel-Compiler-Suite 14.0 is now default intel compiler
    • OpenMPI 1.6.5 is now default OpenMPI
    • FhGFS update to 2012.10-r9. Refer to Changelog.
  • OCuLUS OpenCCS update
    • New Features:
      • ncpus limit enforcement
        • OpenCCS now observes that a job will not use more ncpus than requested.
        • Refer to User-Manual section 5.5.2 for more details.
      • Option --fmt to ccsinfo -s and ccsinfo -n
        • Using the option --fmt one can specify which information fields should be shown, the field format, and their order.
        • Refer to the ccsinfo man page or the User-Manual section 7.1.3 and section 7.2.1 for more details.
      • Option --raw to ccsinfo -s and ccsinfo -n
        • Using the option --raw prints the fields in a raw format: No head- line, no field formatting. Fields are separated by blanks.
        • Refer to ccsinfo man page or the User-Manual section 7.1.3 and section 7.2.1 for more details.
      • Option --reqid to ccsinfo -n
        • Prints information about nodes assigned to request reqID. Refer to the ccsinfo man page or the User-Manual section 7.2.1 for more details.
      • ccsinfo -s accepts reqIDs as a filter.
        • E.g., ccsinfo -s 123 456 prints information only for the requests with reqID 123 or 456.
• 7 Nov.
  • OCuLUS: Gromacs Version 4.6.3 with GPU support is installed
  • OCuLUS/Arminius+: Gaussian Rev D.01 is installed

• 6 Nov.
  • MathWorks: Seminar "Technische Berechnungen im großen Stil – MATLAB Einsatz auf Computerclustern" https://de.mathworks.com/videos.html

• 4 Nov.
  • OCuLUS: Version 2.0 of the Performance Optimization Tool Scalasca is installed

• 31 Oct.
  • OCuLUS: New Intel Compiler C/C++ and Fortran are installed (Version 14.0)

• 28 Oct.
  • MathWorks: "Writing Apps in Matlab" http://www.mathworks.de/company/newsletters/articles/writing-apps-in-matlab.html

• 24 Oct.
  • Jülich: Training Course "Introduction to parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP" http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Termine/IAS/JSC/EN/courses/MPI_OpenMP-2013.html;jsessionid=713D858DB52A5647725C1B234F74EA66
  • MathWorks: Seminar "Mathematische Modellierung mit MATLAB"
  • MathWorks: Matlab Seminar-Aufzeichnungen zu verschiedenen Themenbereichen unter: https://de.mathworks.com/videos.html

• 23 Oct.
  • HLRS: Parallel Programming Workshops and Programming Language Courses 2014: http://www.hlrs.de/organization/sos/par/services/training/2014/all

• 22 Oct
  • nVidia: OpenACC Workshop @ TU Kaiserslautern: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/gpu-computing-workshop-registration-form-uk.html

• 18 Oct.
  • Jülich: Training Course "Programming with C": http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Termine/IAS/JSC/EN/courses/c-2013.html;jsessionid=713D858DB52A5647725C1B234F74EA66
  • Jülich: Training Course "UNICORE - uniform access to the supercomputer systems": http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Termine/IAS/JSC/EN/courses/unicore-2013.html;jsessionid=713D858DB52A5647725C1B234F74EA66

• 17 Oct.
  • Intel: The 5 Minute Guide to Parallel and Vector Software Programming: http://tci.taborcommunications.com/l/21812/2013-05-03/2bc3