High-Performance Computing and Communications
Among supercomputers in an academic setting, HPCC's new
supercomputer cluster is the 7th fastest in the United States. Among
all supercomputers in the world, it is ranked 61st. It claimed this
distinction by achieving a benchmark in fall 2008 of 44.19 teraflops,
or 44.19 trillion floating-point calculations per second, on its
768-node, 10-gigabit backbone cluster.
HPCC comprises a diverse mix of computing and data resources. Two Linux
clusters constitute the principal computing resource. In addition, HPCC has a
central facility that provides more than 400 terabytes of combined disk
storage and potential access to nearly a petabyte of tape storage, as well
as a Condor cluster that uses spare cycles on UNIX workstations in USC's
general-access computing rooms.
Upcoming HPCC Downtimes
Solaris Cluster Decommissioning
On July 1st, the small Solaris Netra cluster will be
decommissioned. Those accounts that had access to the
Solaris cluster will be able to run their jobs on
Almaak, following the cluster guidelines.
| HPCC Research | | HPCC System Updates |
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Thieo Hogen-Esch Elucidation of the mechanisms of the Yamamoto polymerizations More...
James Knowles and Peter Laird Analysis of DNA sequences generated with next-gen technology More...
John O'Brien Active and passive nanophtonic integrated circuit components More...
Thomas Jordan Using seismic tomography to help reduce earthquake risks More...
Carl Kesselman Middleware guru and grid pioneer More...
Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu Statistical approach to natural language translation More...
Aiichiro Nakano and Ashish Sharma Large-scale scientific visualization More...
Priya Vashishta Multi-teraflop supercomputing More...
Arieh Warshel Computer simulation of biological processes More...
Richard Weinberg Computer animation and visual effects More... | |
Mpic-mx build The cluster is currently running Mpich-mx. MPI programs compiled with mpic-bm must be recompiled with updated mpich-mx build. To see if you binaries are affected, run 'ldd $executable|grep libgm'. If "libgm" is printed, then the binary will not work without recompiling.
/usr/usc/mpich/default/mx-gnu34 /usr/usc/mpich/default/mx-intel
/usr/usc/mpich/default/mx-gnu4 /usr/usc/mpich/default/mx-pgi
pbstop Pbstop is installed on hpc headnodes, hpc-login1 and hpc-login2 (/usr/bin/pbstop). To learn about its features, visit the manpage or help screen (type h). |