Document of NCSA Hardware and Software

Resources

• Hardware & Software
• Consultants

Links to Application Team

• Computational Materials Research

NCSA Alliance

• General entry to alliance.
• Intranet, no promises made. [John Wilkins, repurepu]
• Contacts directory ot partners, since there is no intranet yet.
• Access, irregular communication from NCSA; principally news releases.
  Text version

Accounts

1. Applying
2. Quickie account for undergraduate or graduate student. Ignore most of the form; only need some adviser to say you are real.
   Beside personal date and adviser's name, supply only
       project title,
       no of SUs (suggest 1000),
       field of science,
       one sentence abstract (be specific),
       under parallel percent say you are learning MPI/OpenMP,
       don't supply resume.
       If you have difficulties, contact me and
          Barb Fossum, citing my name.
       Put adviser under PI status with SSN and contact info.
3. Established users (us)
4. Adding user form, local postscript version; Secret fax number: 217 265-0460

Visualization
(Good Luck!)

• ChemViz, claims to have rasmol, but link doesn't work (8/14/99)
• DICE
• AVS
• VTK (visualization tookkit)
• March 1999 survey talk on visualization tools

While the Origin2000 (aka k2KBC) is dying

• NCSA Origin2000 page
• BU SG Orign2000 Repository
  • Benchmarks
  • Training
  • Links
  • Benchmarks
  • FAQs
  • CoCo

Accounts: applying and modifying

1. Applyins

Software

• Alliance Software Projects
• Debuggers for C++ on Origin 2000: TotalView (KCC) and BSPLib.
• Scalable Parallel Random Number Generators Library for Parallel Monte Carlo Computations

Hardware

• Alliance Virtual Machine Room (VMR), portal to all alliance hardware
• Overall hardware guide, Alliance partners hardware
• Origin 2000,
  • Web-based Performance Tuning Course, need to follow link above to it.
  • Origin Quick Reference Card
• SGI TechPubs,
• Silicon Graphics CRAY Origin2000 Home page at NCSA,