Category HPC

Rocks 6.1 – IPoIB

Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running Rocks 6.1 (with Service Pack 1, CentOS 6.3 and GE 2011.11p1) – as has been a common practice for several years now, a full version of Operating…

Rocks 5.4.2 – Scheduling GPU jobs via SGE

Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running Rocks 5.4.2 (with CentOS 5.5 and SGE 6.2u5) – as has been a common practice for several years now, a full version of Operating System was installed.…

SC12 in Salt Lake City

The description of the conference didn’t change – SC12 is still The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, but the location did: Salt Lake City in Utah, known to the historically inclined as the crossroads of…

Rocks 5.4.2 – HPCC 1.4.1 benchmark with GCC 4.1.2

Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running Rocks 5.4.2 (with CentOS 5.5) – as has been a common practice for several years now, a full version of Operating System was installed. These instructions may…

Rocks 5.4.2 – HPL 2.0 benchmark with GCC 4.1.2

Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running Rocks 5.4.2 (with CentOS 5.5) – as has been a common practice for several years now, a full version of Operating System was installed. These instructions may…

SC11, fond memories from a fantastic nerd fest

Apart from what I could infer from the title, SC11, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, that it was being held in a city that I had already been to once before (and had gained…

BASH – Wrappers For qstat In NPACI ROCKS 5.2.2

What is ROCKS? Rocks Cluster Distribution (originally called NPACI Rocks) is a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing clusters. It was started by NPACI and the SDSC in 2000, and was initially funded in part by an NSF grant (2000-2007)…

BASH – Wrappers For qstat In NPACI ROCKS

BASH is a free software UNIX shell written for the GNU Project. Its name is an acronym which stands for Bourne-again shell. The name is a pun on the name of the Bourne shell (sh), an early and important UNIX…

SIESTA, SMEAGOL, VASP and BlueGene/L

Well, some of you have been regular readers (and commentors) for my journal in this part of the e-world and such of those have known that I have been in Europe – Jülich, Germany – to be precise. However, while…

VASP, MPICH, Intel Compilers and Rocks

Much of the weekend was spent in some relaxation, shoveling snow (I have come to realize that this is a very good exercise – it can make one sweat even when it’s +10F outside!) and trying to debug the errors…