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This page includes a summary of differences to keep in mind when migrating jobs from other clusters to Ascend.
Ascend
We use Slurm syntax for all the discussions on this page. Please check how to prepare slurm job script if your script is prepared in PBS syntax.
Memory limit
Ascend
oneAPI is an open, cross-industry, standards-based, unified, multiarchitecture, multi-vendor programming model that delivers a common developer experience across accelerator architectures – for faster application performance, more productivity, and greater innovation. The oneAPI initiative encourages collaboration on the oneAPI specification and compatible oneAPI implementations across the ecosystem.
Ascend, Owens, Pitzer
GSL is a library of mathematical methods for C and C++ languages.
Ascend, Owens, Pitzer
Miniconda3 is a free minimal installer for conda. It is a small, bootstrap version of Anaconda that includes only conda, Python, the packages they depend on, and a small number of other useful packages, including pip, zlib and a few others.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
Miniconda is available on the Ascend Cluster. The versions currently available at OSC are:
Owens, Pitzer
Clara Parabricks is a powerful toolkit designed for genomic analysis. It is primarily designed for GPU computation.
Ascend, Owens, Pitzer
In October 2022, OSC retires the Data Direct Networks (DDN) GRIDScaler system deployed in 2016 and expands the IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) for both Project and global Scratch services. This expands the total capacity of Project and Scratch storage at OSC to ~16 petabytes with better performance.
Owens, Pitzer
CIAO (also known as Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations) is a X-Ray telescope analysis software package for astronomical observation. CIAO focuses on the Chandra X-ray observatory. It contains a toolset used to analyze fits files and is commonly used in conjuction with DS9 and Sherpa, and focuses on data flexibility.
Owens, Pitzer
SAOImageDS9 is a astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 provides support for FITS images, binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and colormaps display options
Availability and Restrictions
The following versions of DS9 are available on OSC clusters:
Owens, Pitzer
WCStools is a program package designed for working with Images and the World Coordinate System. The aim of WCStools is to provide methods for relating pixels taken common astronomical images to sky coordinates.
Availability and Restrictions
The following versions of WCStools are available on OSC clusters:
