High-Performance Computing and Communications
Among supercomputers in an academic setting, HPCC's supercomputer cluster is the 7th fastest in the United States. Among all supercomputers in the world, it is ranked
79th. It claimed this distinction by achieving a benchmark in Fall 2011 of 149.9 teraflops, or 149.9 trillion floating-point calculations per second, on its 2,225-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 and PCs in USC's general-access computing rooms.
Upcoming HPCC Downtimes
In March, HPCC will have two major scheduled downtimes. During the first
downtime, on March 12, we will be applying security and operating system
patches to Almaak and file servers. During the second downtime, from
March 12 to March 19, we will be upgrading the operating system for all
our Linux head nodes, administrative nodes, and compute nodes from Centos 5
to Centos 6. After the Centos 6 upgrade, you may need to recompile some of
your programs. All Linux systems will be unavailable during this second
downtime.
1) Scheduled Downtime for Almaak and File Servers (March 12, 2012)
From 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Monday, March 12, Almaak and file servers for
the 2-GB and 10-GB clusters will be unavailable. During this time, security
and operating system patches will be applied. Services will be restored as
they become available.
2) Scheduled Downtime for the 2-GB and 10-GB Cluster (March 12 to March 19, 2012)
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From 8:00 a.m. on Monday, March 12, to 8:00 a.m. on Monday, March 19, all head
nodes and compute nodes on the 2-GB and 10-GB Linux cluster will be unavailable
due to the operating system upgrade to Centos 6. We anticipate that the head nodes
will be brought online on Wednesday, March 14th.
Thank you for your patience while we upgrade HPCC resources to better serve your needs.
Adventures in Technology
A series of informational presentations hosted by Information Technology Services (ITS)
Customer Support Center (CSC). Presentations are designed to help
USC students, staff and faculty get the most out of the
computing resources provided by ITS. The
site is regularly updated with new session information, so check back often.
adventure
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Theodore W. Berger
Large-Scale Hippocampal Model
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David Conti
Statistical Methods Development in Genetic Epidemiology
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Ken-ichi Nomura and Weiqiang Wang
Applying Parallel Molecular Dynamics Algorithms to Million-to-Billion Atom Simulations
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Michelle Povinelli
Slow Light in Photonic Crystals
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Thieo Hogen-Esch
Elucidation of the mechanisms of the Yamamoto polymerizations
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James Knowles and Peter Laird
Analysis of DNA sequences generated with next-gen technology
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John O'Brien
Active and passive nanophtonic integrated circuit components
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Thomas Jordan
Using seismic tomography to help reduce earthquake risks
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Carl Kesselman
Middleware guru and grid pioneer
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Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu
Statistical approach to natural language translation
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Aiichiro Nakano and Ashish Sharma
Large-scale scientific visualization
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Priya Vashishta
Multi-teraflop supercomputing
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Arieh Warshel
Computer simulation of biological processes
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Richard Weinberg
Computer animation and visual effects
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