Computational Science Research Cluster

The CSRC lab now has its own XMPP communication server for use amongst those utilizing the lab.

You may register an account here and the recommended client can be downloaded from here. Once you have an account your log in username will be [username]@csrc.tamu-commerce.edu.

Note: At this time, it is necessary to connect to the VPN or access the service through the school’s network.

Gaussian09 and Gaussview5 has been installed on the Lion HPC for the chemistry department.

A new single user key has been installed into the Lion HPC cluster for the Spartan 08 where only a single terminal can be launched. Any attempt to open multiple windows of the Spartan will result in an activation expiration page.

A non-commercial Intel® Fortran Compiler Professional Edition for Linux (IFORT version: 11.1-072) has been installed on the head node of LionHPC in the directory “/opt/intel”.  It is tested by compiling and running the sample program “int\_sin.f90” in the sample programs directory. Please let us know if you get any questions.

We are exchanging the hardware key now due to the wrong license. Temporarily you need the activation code to run spartan. You may find the code from the welcome message when you log into LionHPC.

We change and add some new pages on this website as the following:

• the new LionHPC tab for the Lion cluster:

1. Introduction for LionHPC, including overview, architecture and configuration.
2. Support page for LionHPC, including some FAQs about using the Lion cluster.

• the new resources tab shows all available computing resources available from CSRC, including hardware configurations for Lion, Cub, Cheetah and currently installed software packages.

Due to security problems, we are initiating following precautions which include

• present account backups
• Servers Re installations
• Manual Account Creations and Restorations.

Cub HPC and Lion HPC will be down for couple of days. We will notify you once we are done the restoration.

Sorry for inconvenience.

We have finally gotten all of the external network connections installed in Science 355, and have set up all of the host names and static IP’s for the TAMUC computational sciences computing resources.  Unfortunately, a library server already has and uses the name lion, so we had to use a slight alternative nameing scheme for our machines.  The full and official list of computing resource information:

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Lion: 1024 core Dell commodity computing cluster

Name: lionhpc.tamu-commerce.edu

Aliases: lionhpc

Internal static IP: 10.19.0.116

External static IP: 165.95.92.116

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Cub: L3 donated 16 core commodity computing cluster, used for prototyping and configuration

Name: cubhpc.tamu-commerce.edu

Aliases: cub.tamu-commerce.edu, cub

Internal static IP: 10.19.0.114

External static IP: 165.95.92.114

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Cheetah: L3 donated GPGPU Nvidia Personal Supercomputer

Name: cheetahhpc.tamu-commerce.edu

Aliases: cheetah.tamu-commerce.edu, cheetah

Internal static IP: 10.19.0.113

External static IP: 165.95.92.113

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Also, CTIS has agreed to open SSH access to these HPC resources through the external firewall.  Thus, you are able to SSH into your account from an external ISP connection, without the need to use VPN.  This should make external access to your HPC accounts much easier.  You should be able to also perform sftp, X forwarding and VNC over the SSH connection as well, giving full access to file transfer and graphical applications externally.  In addition, http and https services are also accessible on these machines, as well as the csrc.tamu-commerce.edu server.  This means that you can externally access the web based services on the HPC and server machines, including the ganglia cluster monitors, and the tracks and subversion project management tools available on the csrc server.

Hello all,

we have new Domain Names and Static IP’s available for the machines.

Corvus Cluster will be called as CubHPC and its URL: http://cubhpc.tamu-commerce.edu ( IP : 10.19.0.114)

Computational Science Research Cluster Website: http://csrc.tamu-commerce.edu ( IP: 10.19.0.154)

LION Cluster will be called as LionHPC , and its URL: http://lionhpc.tamu-commerce.edu ( IP:10.19.0.116)

GPU Cluster will be called as Cheetah , and its URL: http://cheetah.tamu-commerce.edu ( IP: 10.19.0.113)

Thank you,

CSRC Admin Team

Texas A&M University – Commerce

Here is the current and planned schedule of meetings of the Computational Sciences Research Cluster group on High Performance Computing using the lion and cheetah cluster computers.  It looks like we may be meeting every other Week for 3 or 4 initial meetings, to create accounts and introduce researchers to the new computing cluster instruments.  The schedule of past and future meetings includes:

• Wednesday March 31, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Sci 123: Introduction to HPC and cluster computing facilities and accounts at TAMUC
• Wednesday April 14, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Sci 123: Examples of parallel applications using MPI and other tools on the TAMUC clusters
• Wednesday April 28, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Sci 123: Monitoring and submitting jobs using Rocks cluster tools.

We have created a HPC Resource page where we will post all handouts, slides and instructions that we give out at these meetings, as a first start at a location people should go to to find help and information on using the TAMUC cluster computers.