[4eyes] FW: [coms-grad] [all-grad] Computational Resources available at UCSB through the CSC for Graduate Student Research

[Matthew Turk]

I assume you all received this email, but I wanted to be sure....

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From: Coms-grad [mailto:coms-grad-bounces at engineering.ucsb.edu] On Behalf Of Fuzzy Rogers
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 3:05 PM
To: Fuzzy Rogers <fuz at mrl.ucsb.edu>
Subject: [coms-grad] [all-grad] Computational Resources available at UCSB through the CSC for Graduate Student Research


The Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) offers UCSB graduate students access to the campus cluster Knot and national XSEDE resources for your research needs.  If you have calculations that can take advantage of parallel computing, long running calculations, large memory calculations, or large disk calculations your research may benefit from using the available clusters.  Access to Knot is free for UCSB researchers.

( see http://csc.cnsi.ucsb.edu/resources )

We are continuing last year's seminar series to introduce researchers and students to several topics in scientific and high performance computing (HPC). Below is a tentative list of seminars and their dates:

Wed Oct 11, 11:30 am  - R for Scientific and Data Intensive Computing Tues Oct 17, 11:30 am - Python for Scientific Computing Thurs Oct 26, 11:30 am - Software Containers with Singularity Tues Nov 7, 11:30 am - Basic Linux and HPC on CSC and XSEDE clusters Tues Nov 11, 11:30 am - Using Matlab Wed Dec 6, 11:30 am - Basic Linux and HPC on CSC and XSEDE clusters  

The first seminar will be held next Wednesday (Oct 11) in Elings Hall Room 1601. 
Details and links for registering can be accessed from:
http://csc.cnsi.ucsb.edu/news/855

Pizza will be provided in the seminars!

What is a cluster? It’s a collection of individual computers (nodes) connected together with high-speed networking.  What makes Knot a little more unique is that it contains a few different types of nodes - 12 core and 20 core nodes with 48-128GB RAM each, fat nodes with 32 cores and 1TB RAM, GPU nodes with 2 NVIDIA Tesla M2050s each, and a Xeon Phi node with 8 Phi co-processors.  The CSC has collected a library of software that can be used for your research- Gaussian, Lumerical, MatLab, Mathematica, R, python and anaconda, and many others.

What is XSEDE? The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is a single virtual computing system that scientists can use to interactively share resources, data and expertise. Scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanities experts around the world — many of them at colleges and universities — use advanced digital resources and services every day. Supercomputers, collections of data, and new tools are critical to the success of those researchers, who use them to make our lives healthier, safer, and better. XSEDE integrates these resources and services, makes them easier to use, and helps more people use them. As a member of XSEDE's Campus Champions program, UCSB has an annual allocation totaling about 250,000 hours on different supercomputers and direct access to XSEDE's staff. Individual research groups can obtain their own allocations through XSEDE (either startup and/or research allocations) and CSC provides support for writing allocation grants.  Burak Himmetoglu ( bhemmetoglu at ucsb.edu ) is our campus champion and resident XSEDE expert.

Thanks-

Fuzzy Rogers ( fuz at mrl.ucsb.edu )
Paul Weakliem ( weakliem at cnsi.ucsb.edu ) Burak Himmetoglu ( bhimmetoglu at ucsb.edu )
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