Invited Talk at Hope College

Fri 15 April 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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This week I was invited by Dr. Ryan McFall in the Hope College CSE department to give a seminar talk about using advanced computational hardware. This time I reordered my slides to be more example focused and I think it …

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Condor compile of Avida

Fri 11 March 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Today I figured got a condor_compile version of Avida working on TeraGrid. First, I downloaded Avida to my Teragrid account:

> svn checkout https://avida.devosoft.org/svn/stable

Then I modified the build_avida script …

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Simple Matlab Script Wrapper

Mon 30 August 2010 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Sometimes you have four or five variations on the same MATLAB script. You could write a different submissions script for each variation, or you can constantly edit the submission script every time you need …

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Using mpi pernode option

Wed 25 August 2010 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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The mpiexec (mvapich) pernode option will run a single process for on every machine with the same host name. For example, if you run a job with nodes=16:ppn=2, the job's PBS_NODEFILE …

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Reordering the Eligible Jobs in Your Queue

Tue 17 August 2010 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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I run a lot of different types of jobs with many different resource requirements. Back when we could have up to 144 eligible jobs in the queue this was not a problem. However …

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