Software

Matlab on fimm now has spm toolbox

lsz075 • August 24, 2005

The matlab toolbox spm version 5b is now installed on fimm

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm5b/

Totalview and Matlab upgrade

lsz075 • July 15, 2005

Totalview upgraded to version 7.0 on tre and fimm (version 6.7 still available)
Matlab upgraded to R14sp2 (7.0.4) on fimm and fire (with updated Bioinformatics toolbox-2.1 and Simulink-6.2.1)

Intel compilers upgraded on fimm

lsz075 • April 20, 2005

The intel fortran and C/C++ compilers were upgraded from v8.1.023 to v8.1.027. This should fix a couple of internal compiler-errors we've been triggering.

PGI compilers upgraded on fimm

lsz075 • April 6, 2005

The Portland Group compilers were upgraded from v5.2 to v6.0.

portland compiler on fire + mpich

lsz075 • April 5, 2005

The portland group compilers v6.0 was installed on fire. Also mpich for the portland compilers was installed under /local/mpich/pgi/.

Amber8 installed on fimm

lsz075 • March 15, 2005

Amber8 was installed on fimm /local/amber8/.

Information on failed tests are in /local/amber8/MakeTestResults.txt,
but they mostly look like minor round-off errors in the last digit. A qualified
evaluation from a user understanding the results would be much appreciated.

Totalview debugger installed on fimm

lsz075 • February 16, 2005

Totalview v6.6.0-2 was installed on fimm. The license covers 2 simultaneous users, on max 2 nodes.

Totalview is an advanced debugger. Please check http://www.etnus.com/Documentation/rel6/html/index.html for features and documentation.

Courses on parallel programming at UiB – week 7

lsz075 • February 4, 2005

The Bergen Center for Computational Science (BCCS) at the University of Bergen has planned the following two courses on standard techniques for efficient and portable parallel programming.

* MPI programming (distributed memory, message passing)
Date : Tuesday 15 February 9.30am - 3pm
Speaker : Thierry Matthey

* OpenMP programming (shared memory)
Date : Wednesday 16 February, 10am - 3pm
Speaker : Helge Avlesen

Both are 1-day courses and will consist of

* short introduction to the supercomputer facilities at UiB (morning)

* a 2-3 hour overview of the relevant MPI/OpenMP concepts (morning)

* a hands-on session with exercises (afternoon)

More information about location and registration can be found on

http://www.parallaw.uib.no/courses/mpi-openmp

Deadline for registration is Thursday 10 February.

Participation is FREE but registration is necessary.