Gary M Jung posted on Feb 20, 2016 HPC Services engineer Michael Jennings gave a talk on the "Node Health Check (NHC)" on Feb 24, 2016 at the Stanford Conference and Exascale Workshop 2016 sponsored by the HPC Advisory Council. NHC, developed by Jennings, provides the framework and … [Read more...]
Linux Foundation OpenHPC project uses LBNL Warewulf
By Gary M Jung on 2015-11-25T05:32:27Z The Linux Foundation the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, has announced an intent to form the OpenHPC Collaborative Project. This project will provide a new, open source framework to … [Read more...]
HPC Services at DellXL this week
Gary M Jung posted on Apr 24, 2015 HPC Services staff members Yong Qin and Michael Jennings gave talks highlighting their respective software tools, wwibcheck and NHC, at the DellXL High Performance Computing (HPC) conference this week, April 21-23, 2015, in Boulder, Colorado … [Read more...]
IT and ESNet Help ALS Researchers Move their Big Data
Gary M Jung posted on Feb 28, 2015 Working at the ALS generates huge amounts of data, and for many years this has caused users to have to carry hard drives and USB drives between the ALS and their home institutions for acquisition and analysis of experimental data. To avoid the physical … [Read more...]
Server Energy Efficiency and Performance Study presented at 2014 Data Center Efficiency Summit
Gary M Jung posted on Nov 05, 2014 Data centers consume approximately 2 percent of the nation’s electrical energy and roughly half of that is consumed by the IT equipment. Berkeley Lab EETD researcher and lead author Henry Coles and co-author, HPCS consultant Yong Qin from IT, recently … [Read more...]
HPCS at SLURM User Group Meeting
Gary M Jung posted on Sep 22, 2014 High Performance Computing Services systems analyst Jackie Scoggins will be giving a talk about how we recently migrated our scheduling environment, which manages the job scheduling for all of our clusters, cluster condo users, and institutional computing at … [Read more...]
HPCS helps researchers set new Microscopy record at the ALS.
Gary M Jung posted on Sep 11, 2014 Researchers at the ALS used “soft” X-rays to image structures only five nanometers in size. This resolution is the highest ever achieved with X-ray microscopy and may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Diffraction data is recorded by a high … [Read more...]
HPCS presenting at GlobusWorld 2014
Gary M Jung posted on Mar 12, 2014 HPC Services consultant Krishna Muriki and systems engineer Karen Fernsler will be presenting at GlobusWorld 2014 on April 15-17, 2014 at Argonne National Laboratory. The main theme of this year's conference is Setting Up a Campus Data Service since many … [Read more...]
HPC Services demos GPU Accelerated Synchrotron Radiation Calculation at GTC 2013
Gary M Jung posted on Mar 18, 2013 An undulator is a periodic structure of magnets through which an electron bunch goes radiating synchrotron light towards the forward direction. It has been widely used at synchrotron light facilities, such as the Advanced Light Source (ALS, US), European … [Read more...]
The Science of Clouds computed on Lawrencium
Gary M Jung posted on Mar 15, 2013 The climate models that scientists use to understand and project climate change are improving constantly, with better representations of the oceans, ice, land surfaces and other factors in the atmosphere. While there is still some degree of uncertainty in … [Read more...]
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