Word from User Support

Thanks for visiting SDSC's Thread User Newsletter! This issue features information on a new software offering at SDSC - "Star-P" - that provides a parallel computational client-server solution for products such as MatLab. We are also pleased to offer several upcoming outreach/training opportunities:

On the Allocations front, the Allocation Committee met the first week of March to review proposals and recommend awards for TeraGrid resources to start April 1. Total requests for SUs doubled since the last review cycle (from 74 million SUs to 133 million SUs). For SDSC's resources, DataStar was heavily requested with more than 17 million SUs, resulting in 13.6 million SUs awarded (DataStar had only 5.75 million SUs available so many allocations were split across other resources with available cycles).

I hope you enjoy this Spring Issue of Thread.

Best Regards,
Anke Kamrath
Division Director, SDSC User Support and Development

Anke Kamrath is reachable via e-mail at kamratha@sdsc.edu

Did you know ..?

that SDSC has limited the core file size to 32MB.
To make good use of the core file size it is recommneded using the MP_COREFILE_FORMAT environment variable (or its associated command-line flag -corefile_format) to set the format of corefiles to lightweight corefiles.
See Thread article Issue 4, February 2006 for more details.