[LA-SiGMA] HPC/LONI SYSTEM UPDATES

[Wei P Feinstein]

********** HPC/LONI SYSTEM UPDATES<http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/sysnews/index.php> (January 2017) ********

CONTENTS:

    LONI HPC
        QB2
        Eric
    LSU HPC
        SuperMIC
        SuperMike2
        Philip

The latest information of software stack can be found at HPC at LSU<http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/docs/guides/index.php><http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/docs/guides/index.php>

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I            LONI QB2--Nvidia GPU

    OS Update
      Upgraded to RHEL 6.8 with the latest security patches

    Software
        Newly installed packages
            Key: bazel/0.4.0
            Description: Bazel is Google's own build tool, now publicly available in Beta. Bazel has built-in support for building both client and server software, including client applications for both Android and iOS platforms. It also provides an extensible framework that you can use to develop your own build rules.

        Key: java/1.8.0
            Description: Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as in today's demanding embedded environments. Java offers the rich user interface, performance, versatility, portability, and security that today's applications require. setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/packages/java/jdk1.8.0_101

        Key: visit/2.10.2
            Description: VisIt is an Open Source, interactive, scalable, visualization, animation and analysis tool. users can interactively visualize and analyze data ranging in scale from small (<101 core) desktop-sized projects to large (>105 core) leadership-class computing facility simulation campaigns. Users can quickly generate visualizations, animate them through time, manipulate them with a variety of operators and mathematical expressions, and save the resulting images and animations for presentations. VisIt contains a rich set of visualization features to enable users to view a wide variety of data including scalar and vector fields defined on two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) structured, adaptive and unstructured meshes. Owing to its customizeable plugin design, VisIt is capabable of visualizing data from over 120 different scientific data formats (see this partial list).

    Updated packages
            Key: cuda/7.5
            Description: Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia for graphics processing

          Key: gcc/4.8.2
            Description: The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).

          Key: matlab/r2015b
            Description: MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran. Users need to provide their own license file, which should have a .lic extension and be located under /home/$U SER/.matlab/R2015b_licenses.

            Key: python/2.7.12-anaconda-tensorflow
            Description: Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.

            Key: python/3.5.2-anaconda-tensorflow
            Description: Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.

    Maintenance Scheduled
        Not scheduled

    Known Problems
        No impact on users

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II            LONI Eric

    Hardware
        System is offline for an upgrade
    Maintenance Scheduled
        Ongoing

    Known Problems
        No impact on users

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III        LSU HPC SuperMIC--Intel Xeon Phi

    OS Update
        Upgraded to RHEL 6.8 with the latest security patches

    Hardware
        Bigmem Queue (3 big memory nodes) is added: Each node has 28 cores, 256GB Ram, 1TB HD

    Software
        No Change

    Maintenance Scheduled
        Downtime to replace batteries on Tuesday Jan 31

    Known Problems
        At the moment, Intel Xeon Phi cards support native and offload mode, but the symmetric mode is not working properly.

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IV            LSU HPC SuperMike2

    OS Update
      Upgraded to RHEL 6.8 with the latest security patches

    Software
        Newly installed packages
            Key: +CP2K-3.0-impi-4.1.3-Intel-13.0.0
            Description: quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package that can perform atomistic simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular, periodic, material, crystal, and biological systems

            Key: +CP2K-3.0-mvapich2-2.0.1-Intel-14.0.2
            Description: quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package that can perform atomistic simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular, periodic, material, crystal, and biological systems

            Key: +gnuparallel-20161022-gcc-4.4.6
            Description: GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers.

            Key: +lsuhpctools
            Description: The jobc is a bash utility that allows users and sysadmins to track all job charge information on the LSU HPC and LONI clusters. This tool is still under internal testing and will be made available to users soon.

        Key: +swift-0.96.2
            Description: Swift is a simple scripting language for executing many instances of ordinary application programs on distributed and parallel resources.

            Key: +wannier90-2.0.1-Intel-13.0.0
            Description: program for calculating maximally-localised Wannier functions

    Maintenance Scheduled
        Not scheduled

    Known Problems
        No impact on users


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V            LSU HPC Philip

    OS Update
        Upgraded to RHEL 6.8 with the latest security patches
    Software
        Updated packages
            Key: ansys/17.2
        Description: The ANSYS software suites include Fluent and ANSYS Mechanical. It's only available to LSU users.

    Maintenance Scheduled
        Not scheduled

    Known Problems
        No impact on users

For information about HPC weekly training and XSEDE site training, check it out here<http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php#upcoming>.


Thank you,

Wei


Wei Feinstein, Ph.D.
High Performance Computing
Information Technology Services
Louisiana State University
337 Frey Computing Services Center
Baton Rouge, LA  70803
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