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Center for
Computation & Visualization

Brown University
Box 1824
Providence, RI 02912

224 Thayer Street
94 Waterman Street

Phone: (401) 863-7557
Fax: (401) 863-9265

Documentation

NOTE: some of the information on this page is outdated, and the most current source of documentation is now the CCV User Manual available at http://ccv.brown.edu/doc.

Oscar Compute Cluster

Specifications
Accessing with SSH

Managing files

File systems
Restoring files
Data management
I/O strategies
Revision control with Git

Software

Available software
Software modules
Compiling
Linking
GUI software
Bioinformatics in BioMed@Brown
MATLAB

Running jobs

Interactive jobs
Queue overview and policies
Submitting jobs
Managing jobs
Job arrays

GPU computing

Accessing GPU nodes
Getting started with GPUs
Introduction to CUDA
Compiling with CUDA
Mixing MPI and CUDA

 

 

Workshop Slides

PDF Overview of CCV Services
PDF Getting Started with CCV
PDF Getting Started with the New Oscar Cluster
PDF Automating Tasks through Scripting
PDF Profiling and Performance Analysis
PDF Programming with OpenMP and MPI
PDF Parallel I/O Libraries and Techniques 

Bioinformatics Workshop 2011
Summer Multi-day Workshop 2011

RData

Rdata/CIFS setup
Modifying permissions

Tivoli Storage Manager

TSM download
TSM install guide
IBM docs

TeraGrid

Login
TACC Course materials

Getting Started PDFs

(Printable 1-page references.)

PDF What is HPC?
PDF Basic UNIX Commands
PDF Logging In
PDF Software Modules