Dear Discovery Cluster Users:

Please welcome the following new members into the ITS-RC team:

- Dr. Handan Liu (Research Computing Associate): Handan holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, '09) with experience in developing, modeling and simulation in fluid/solid mechanics by CFD and FEA for larger-scale commercial code and open-source code in standalone and parallel modes. She is proficient in numerical methods and algorithms, parallel developing and computing with MPI and OpenMP on CPU, and Intel-MIC on Intel Xeon Phi Co-processors.

- Boris Yazlovitsky (HPC Sys. Admin): Boris holds a B.S. in Mathematics (St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, '97) with 10+ years of experience as a Linux/Unix systems administrator.  He is proficient with opensource tools (build and deployment), automation by scripting (Perl, Bash, PHP), and system maintenance of HPC clusters having worked on clusters at Harvard Medical School, Pfizer, EMC and AMD.

- Paurav Patel (Grad. Assistant): Paurav is currently a Candidate for Master of Science in Computer Science (Northeastern University, Boston, '17). He has command over the ‘Database Management’ and ‘Data structures and Algorithms’ concepts. He also has acquaintance with programming language like C, Java and Python, as well as web technologies like HTMl, JavaScript, CSS and PHP.

- Chenxi Shi (Grad. Assistant): Chenxi is currently a Candidate for Master of Science in Telecommunication System Management (Northeastern University, Boston, '16). She has knowledge of networking, OSI model, routers, and switches, in addition to experience in C#, C/C++, and Python, as well software like Unity, and Cisco Package Tracer.

Office Hours of the ITS-RC team are here - http://nuweb12.neu.edu/rc/?page_id=24

Two new queues are also now available for general use on Discovery Cluster - ser-par-10g-4 (184 compute nodes) and par-gpu-2 (16 compute nodes, each with a single NVIDIA K40m GPU), both with 24 hour job time limits. These 200 new compute nodes have 48 compute cores and 128GB of RAM.  

More details are here - http://nuweb12.neu.edu/rc/?page_id=14

Please note that when submitting interactive jobs ensure that you use "-R span[ptile=48]" as shown below to ensure you lock the node down from these queues. That way you will have the resources on the node exclusively for yourself for 24 hours.

>>bsub -Is -XF -n 48 -q ser-par-10g-4 -R span[ptile=48] /bin/bash

For batch jobs replace -q in "#BSUB -q" with either "ser-par-10g-4" or "par-gpu-2" and remember to add or change -R in "#BSUB -R" to "#BSUB -R span[ptile=48]".

Thanks,
Best
Nilay

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