2012-01-23 Engineering Graduate Students iCER presentation

Mon 23 January 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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The following are slides from the presentation I gave to Engineering Graduate Students for their by-monthly professional development workshop.

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2012-01-11 XSEDE - Accessing and Using Advanced Computational Hardware to Make Your Research Go Faster

Fri 13 January 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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I gave this talk to BEACON. The talk was broadcast to all of the BEACON centers across the US and when it is posted to YouTube I will add a link here. For now, here are a copy of my …

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Research and Instructional Technology Seminars for Faculty - Introduction to MATLAB, HPCC and Advanced HPCC

Thu 05 January 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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I presented a three, three hour classes as part of the MSU Research and Instructional Technology Seminars for Faculty. Although attendence as low comparied to the fall we had a great discussion in all of the classes. Below are copies of my slides:

2012-01-04 Introduction …

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On Demand MakeFlow PBS script

Fri 11 November 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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We just installed MakeFlow on our system as an easy to use workflow manager that uses the familiar "makefile" syntax. MakeFlow uses a master node and schedules all of the work off to worker …

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New Powertool to help checkpoint jobs

Thu 06 October 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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In a previous blog post I posted my script for automatically checkpointing jobs using BLCR which enables us to run jobs longer than a week:

http://wiki.hpcc.msu.edu/x/eIHT

I didn't like the complexity of the script so I created a …

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Presentation to Fulbright faculty Visitors from Iraq

Fri 19 August 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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This week I had a unique oportunity to talk with a group of Fulbright faculty from Iraq. I gave them a short presentation on how advanced computation is used in research at MSU and then I gave them a tour …

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New Faculty Orientation

Wed 17 August 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Here are the slides from my "What is ICER" talk that I put together for new faculty. I gave the talk yesterday and I will be giving it again in a week.

2011-08-16 Faculty Orientation.pdf

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HFSS script

Wed 08 June 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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HFSS is available on the MSU HPCC. You can run interactively or in batch mode.

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Monitoring Job overutilization

Thu 28 April 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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This week I was debugging some user code that was over-utilizing a compute node. The job was intended to use only 1 cpu but one of the job's libraries ended up using all the …

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Running jobs longer than one week using BLCR

Thu 21 April 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Our submission system is set up with a maximum walltime of one week. This works fine for most users but sometimes it is nice to be able to run a job even longer. The …

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