When we have news to announce about the cluster,
you'll find it here. If you're not also on the COPS mailing list, you should
ask to be added.
Availability of the cluster
The cluster was opened for use in mid-October 2010.
Matlab 2010b is on the Linux nodes.
Matlab 2010a is on the Windows nodes.
Intel development suite is on all nodes.
October 2011: Node 12 is down with apparent hardware problems.
Motherboard has been replaced; we have a bit of reconfiguration to do though.
Requested software not yet installed
The list of requested software that's not yet installed includes:
The compiler toolbox for Matlab seems to be missing from the Windows nodes.
The "sgisolve" package of well-tuned numerical libraries is
missing. This arises from a problem with declared dependencies. We'll need to
switch from ProPack 7 to its newer version, renamed Performance Suite.
(RT#76507)
Installed software not yet working properly
The list of software that's installed but either has some problems to fix
or awaits configuration includes:
Matlab Distributed Computing Server for parallelization of Matlab
across nodes is not yet working on the Windows nodes.
Recently added or fixed software
August 9/12: Matlab has been updated to R2012a.
September 27/11: The R statistical software package,
as well as the Python libraries SciPy and Numpy,
plus dependencies such as Cython, gfortran, GSL, BLAS, LAPACK, ATLAS, and
FFTW3 have been installed. (RT#79222)
March 4/11: The Matlab Distributed Computing Server
is now working on all the Linux nodes. This enables you to run Matlab
in parallel not only across the CPUs in one machine (like the parallel
toolbox), but across multiple machines.
March 4/11: SGI MPT is now working on all the Linux nodes.
February 23/11: The Intel development suite on the Linux
nodes has been completely replaced with a newer suite that includes the MPI
tools we were missing.
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