SUG Meeting, May 8, 2001

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SUG Meeting, May 8, 2001

• Al Stutz
• Director of HPC, OSC

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Updates

• Software
• Utilization
• Users Services

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SUG Meeting, May 8, 2001

• Sam Bair
• Eric Stahlberg
• Software Update

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Software Update

• FIDAP 8.6 and FLUENT 5.5.14 arrived and will be
  installed shortly.
• Renewing our annual AVS support license and have
  converted some of our licenses to AVS/Express
  while retaining one each of AVS 5 and
  AVS/Animator
• Two requests for AVS (Windows version) in the
  last couple of months. The download/install
  instructions have been tweaked based on user
  experiences but are still problematic.

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Software Update Continued

• The Portland compilers are a big hit. We have 51
  (of 200) licenses outstanding.
• A problem with Gaussian 98 on the cluster has
  been resolved and it appears to be fully
  functional.
• Sam has requested info from our Ansys users
  describing their research. Hell forward it to
  Ansys to meet the requirements of our agreement.

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Software Update Continued

• Details of deal supporting statewide use of
  LabBook software established. Availability
  pending confirmation of legal issues, securing
  funding from controlling board and product
  delivery schedule.
• Substantial statewide interest in BioNavigator
  (Entigen Corp.) for bioinformatics research.
  Visits made to Wright State, OARDC, Miami
  University, Kenyon College, Capital University,
  and Ohio Wesleyan confirm level of interest.
  Visits very supportive of efforts to secure
  economical statewide access to this software.

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SUG Meeting, May 8, 2001

• Leslie Southern, OSC Science and Technology
  Support Lead

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AG Events

• March 23, Developing NSF Centers (hostEPScOR)
• March 28 29, MPI Parallel Programming (hostOSC)
  
• 8 sites, 96 attendees
• April 30, Gallery on the Grid (HostBoston U)
• A list of sites and a schedule of events are at
  http//www.accessgrid.org/
• If interested in taking advantage of the AG at
  OSC, please contact Leslie Southern,
  leslie_at_osc.edu.

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HPC Training

• April
• 24 25, Designing and Building Clusters
• Doug and Troy provided instruction
• full-house of attendees
• timing right before ClusterOhio Grant Deadline
• 26, Seminar webMathematica for Teaching at BGSU
  (Ken)
• May
• 1 2, Multilevel Parallel Programming
• 14, Forte Advanced Toolset by Sun Microsystems
• 23 24, ksh Programming
• 30 31, AVS/Express

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Summer Schedule

• June
• 5-8, C Programming
• 19-22, C Programming
• 25-27, Linux Revolution Conference at NCSA
• July
• 1011, Improving Performance and Error Handling
  in C
• 15-27, High School Summer Institute (see next
  slide)
• August
• 10-11, Graduate Student Conference

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High School Summer Institutehttp//www.osc.edu/si
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