News (2007 1st Quarter - Archive)

Monday 19 March 2007

WASP Workshop: Introduction to MPI
A/Prof Karen Haines, Director, WASP

4 Days, 19 March 2007 to 22 March 2007 (2pm to 5pm)

Registration has closed.

MPI was developed for high performance computing on both massively parallel machines and on workstation clustres. WASP will hold a 4 day workshop on "Introduction to MPI". Topics such as Non Blocking Communication, Virtual Topologies Timings, MPI Message Point to Point, Derived Data Types, Error Handling Restartm and Visualization - OpenDX will be covered during the workshop.

Wednesday 14 March 2007

WASP Seminar Series
Wednesday 14 March 2007, 4pm

Western Australian Large Scale Data Storage:
Directions and eResearch Implications

Andrew Rohl, CEO iVEC and Ronald Jones, iVEC

Abstract

iVEC is building a petascale data storage facility that will be available to academic researchers. This talk is an open discussion covering what the storage facility will be capable of and what it means to researchers, with a focus on the humanities. Discussed will be the advantages and disadvantages of storing data in a centralised store, basic access mechanisms and typical use cases. At end more complex use cases will be briefly mentioned. Any researcher interested in possibly storing data at the new facility is welcome.

Andrew Rohl is the CEO of iVEC, the hub of advanced computing in Western Australia. Ronald Jones is leading the data group's study of user requirements for the petascale data store in conjunction with APAC.

The WASP is located in the south wing, on the Ground floor of Physics.

27 February - 1 March 2007

WASP Welcome Week

Supercomputing is typically defined as computation that requires greater computing power than is offered by traditional desktop computers. Greater computing power can mean more processor cycles, larger memory, faster I/O, faster network transmission, or more sophisticated visualization capabilities.

Supercomputing resources located at UWA include the Cray XT3 Massively Parallel Computer. These resources offer researchers, faculties and students a total of 164 single-core AMD Opeteron processors delivering .85 peak Tflops of processing power, 330 GB of memory and 32 TB of disk storage. The teaching lab at the WASP hosts 9 workstations, each equipped with nVidia GeForce 7900 Programmable Graphics cards. The Scientific Visualisation Lab offers resources to meet the challenges of visually understanding and presenting results.

WASP Welcome Week provides students and researchers an opportunity to learn more about the WASP. During this week, the WASP will hold seminars & tours aimed to introduce students, researchers, and faculty members to Supercomputing and Visualization Resources available at the WASP as well as to provide the information they need to conduct their computational research project in the most efficient way.

Seminar/Tour Schedule:
Tue 27 Feb 07 10:00am-11:00am
Tue 27 Feb 07 3:00pm- 4:00pm
Wed 28 Feb 07 10:00am-11:00am
Wed 28 Feb 07 3:00pm- 4:00pm
Thu 1 Mar 07 10:00am-11:00am
Thu 1 Mar 07 3:00pm- 4:00pm

The WASP is located in the south wing, on the Ground floor of Physics.