The Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) delivers high performance computing, very large working-set data storage, a broad range of applications and development tools, and basic consulting services to the research community at the University of Michigan.

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News

  • News: Follow the CAC on Twitter

    We have a Twitter feed on which we'll make occasional announcements (among the other places) about system outages, updates, and other news.

    To follow us: http://twitter.com/UMCoECAC


  • News: New Intel Compilers (11.0) and MPI Available

    New Intel C, C++, and Fortran compilers are now available on nyx. These compilers also have a matching OpenMPI MPI library available. These new compilers support the new Nehalem (Core i7) CPU's.

    module load intel-comp/c-11.0.074
    module load intel-comp/fortran-11.0.074
    module load openmpi/1.3.2-intel


  • News: New Intel MKL Available

    The new Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) which provides optimized BLAS, LAPACK, FFT and Sparse solvers for intel cpus, both serial and parallel is now available on nyx.

    module load mkl/10.1
    module show mkl/10.1

    ifort source.f90 -L $MKL_LINK -lmkl -lgiomp5 -lpthread
    #run on two cpus
    export OMP_NUM_THREADS=2
    ./a.out


  • News: CAC Offering TeraGrid Support

    The Center for Advanced Computing, with support from the Office of the Associate Vice President for Research CyberInfrastructure and via the TeraGrid Campus Champion Program, is now your local source of information and support about high performance computing opportunities and resources available via the TeraGrid.

    On an appointment basis, we can help you use TeraGrid resources by:

    • Providing you with information about high performance computing resources to researchers and educators, including resources available from the TeraGrid
    • Assisting you to quickly get access to allocations of high performance computing resources
    • Facilitating awareness and training workshops for you about the use of high performance computing resources and services
    • Providing you with contacts within the high performance computing community for quick problem resolution
    • Providing you with timely information on new resources, services, and offerings

     

    For more information or to make an appointment please see http://cac.engin.umich.edu/teragrid


  • News: HPC Programming Class, Fall 2009: Math 671

    Scientific Computing Using Software and Algorithms

    MATH 671, Fall 2009, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00–2:30 p.m.

    Instructor: D. Viswanath (divakar@umich.edu)

    As the speed of computing hardware has improved remarkably over the past two decades, the need for skillful use and creation of scientific software has greatly increased. The use and creation of scientific software are the main topics of this class.

    Topic covered include:

    • compilation units and linking conventions
    • symbol tables and naming conventions using mixed Fortran-C/C++ programming as the example
    • discrete Fourier transform and nonlinear least squares
    • stacks, trees, hash tables and graphs
    • Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods
    • OpenMP and shared memory parallelism
    • MPI and distributed memory parallelism
    • etc.

    For more information, please see the complete flyer.