Hello All,
If you are running out of memory for large assemblies or other memory-intensive tasks, you may want to consider requesting compute time on Blacklight (http://blacklight.psc.edu), the world's largest shared memory system, hosted at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (http://www.psc.edu). Blacklight is an SGI Altix UV system with 4096 cores and 32 terabytes of RAM. Up to 16 TB of shared memory can be accessed by a single program running one or more threads. Blacklight also works well with MPI codes, so calculations involving both distributed and large shared memory stages can be readily performed. This resource can be accessed freely by investigators at US institutions and their international collaborators through the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid (http://www.teragrid.org), the world's largest distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.
Researchers at US institutions who are new to TeraGrid can request a Startup allocation for up to 30,000 service units (core hours) on Blacklight. Larger allocations can be obtained through a quarterly peer-review process. US researchers can add their international collaborators to their TeraGrid allocation.
For more information on obtaining access to Blacklight, please see http://blacklight.psc.edu or feel free to contact me directly.
If you are running out of memory for large assemblies or other memory-intensive tasks, you may want to consider requesting compute time on Blacklight (http://blacklight.psc.edu), the world's largest shared memory system, hosted at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (http://www.psc.edu). Blacklight is an SGI Altix UV system with 4096 cores and 32 terabytes of RAM. Up to 16 TB of shared memory can be accessed by a single program running one or more threads. Blacklight also works well with MPI codes, so calculations involving both distributed and large shared memory stages can be readily performed. This resource can be accessed freely by investigators at US institutions and their international collaborators through the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid (http://www.teragrid.org), the world's largest distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.
Researchers at US institutions who are new to TeraGrid can request a Startup allocation for up to 30,000 service units (core hours) on Blacklight. Larger allocations can be obtained through a quarterly peer-review process. US researchers can add their international collaborators to their TeraGrid allocation.
For more information on obtaining access to Blacklight, please see http://blacklight.psc.edu or feel free to contact me directly.