Hi All, Should we actually build a small cluster specifically for projects? This needn't be very large or very powerful but good enough to perform project simulations. The College HPC is in high demand and it seems a shame to use the resources on UG projects when there are (in research terms) more important things to be doing with them. Best, david On 29/05/14 17:44, Mannall, Adrian B wrote:
I'm on leave but Mike Mussard can probably make a cluster machine available for Victoria to use without the log off and power saving issues.
Regards Adrian
Sent from Samsung Mobile
-------- Original message -------- From: j.spencer@imperial.ac.uk Date:29/05/2014 13:57 (GMT+00:00) To: "Colling, David J" Cc: "Carter-Cortez, Victoria" ,physics-departmental-computing Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] IT Facilities in Physics
Hi Victoria, David,
I frequently hit the same issue. The undergraduate labs are not suitable for running research simulations.
In the past I have got my MSci and UROP students access to the College's HPC resources (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ict/services/hpc). This might be suitable if the code is C/C++/Fortran/etc and the student has the support of their supervisor and has some experience with Linux (or guidance from someone who does).
Best wishes,
--James
On Thu, 29 May 2014, David Colling wrote:
Hi Victoria,
Not that I know of. I am forwarding this to the Departmental Computing list because there are helpful and friendly people from ICT on it and because I would be curious to know if this situation occurs with project students in other groups. We have spoken about a project cluster several times but decided that it would hardly be used.
Comments welcome, david
On 28/05/14 14:04, Carter-Cortez, Victoria wrote:
Hi Dr Colling,
I am and undergraduate student currently undertaking a computational project and have been trying to run my code in the Department's lab. I have attempted this a couple of times and have been signed of by the computers on every occasion. Unfortunately, the code takes a very long time to run and I expect it will take a good number of days to complete.
I was wondering if there are any other IT facilities that I could access to make this process faster?
I hope this is the correct means for making such an enquiry.
Kind regards,
Victoria
_______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing
-- James Spencer Computational Science Support Specialist Thomas Young Centre/Condensed Matter Theory Imperial College http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/people/j.spencer/ http://www.github.com/jsspencer
_______________________________________________ Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list Physics-Departmental-Computing@imperial.ac.uk https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing