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Pitzer
Login Specifications
4 Intel Xeon Gold 6148 (Skylake) CPUs
  • 40 cores/node and 384 GB of memory/node

Technical specifications for 2018 Pitzer:  

Number of Nodes

260 nodes

Number of CPU Sockets

528 (2 sockets/node for standard node)

Number of CPU Cores

10,560 (40 cores/node for standard node)

Owens

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

Owens, Pitzer

Wine is a open-source compatibility layer that allows Windows applications  to run on Unix-like operating system without a copy of Microsoft Windows.

OSC is refreshing the software stack for Owens and Ruby on September 4, 2018. This will be done by a rolling reboot. During the software refresh, some default versions are updated to be more up-to-date. Information about the old and new default versions, as well as all available versions of each software package will be included on the corresponding OSC software webpage.

Owens

Microbial Genomes is a database of prokaryotic genome sequencing project data. 

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

Microbial Genomes is available on the Owens cluster. The versions currently available at OSC are:

Owens, Pitzer

 

OSC periodically updates The NCBI BLAST database. 

Versions

BLAST database is available on the Owens and Pitzer clusters. The versions currently available at OSC are:

Ascend, Owens, Pitzer

CMake is a family of compilation tools that can be used to build, test and package software.

Availability and Restrictions

Versions

The current versions of CMake available at OSC are:

A total of 23 different institutions participated in the course over the two offerings.  Eight institutions participated in both years.  A total of 328 students participated in the courses over the two offerings.  Of those, 301 or 92% successfully completed the course.  This is one measure of the success of the program.

 

Owens, Pitzer
Initial account consolidation took place during the July 17th, 2018 downtime
Please contact OSC Help if you need further information. 

Single Account / Multiple Projects

Structuring the course in this way provided several benefits to the participating institutions.  The nature of their experience varied based on the status of HPC and parallel computing courses within their curriculum.  Based on conversations with the participating faculty these are the variety of benefits that they derived from their participation:

 

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