Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Monash University e-Research Centre is holding a three day exhibition, from 25-27 August, which will highlight how innovative eResearch technologies are transforming both research and academia.

Researchers, staff, students and external visitors to Monash University are welcome to attend this event which will feature a range of live eResearch demonstrations and talks by VPAC and Monash staff on the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) and visualisation services, eResearch support services and effective data storage and management.

VPAC technical experts will present the following seminars and live demonstrations:

26 August at Booth 4:

10.00am-10.30am Patrick Sunter & Andrew Underwood
VPAC: full-spectrum computational E-Research support

This talk will provide an overview of E-Research support capabilities VPAC provides to Monash University and MeRC, focusing on the the Monash node of the AuScope National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy. Research support is provided through VPAC scientific applications development, supercomputer services, on-site High Performance Computing services, middleware, tools, and grid-computing through to workflow tools and project management assistance.

27 August in Room G19:

9:30am to 9:50am Patrick Sunter
VPAC: full-spectrum computational E-Research support

9:50am to 10:15am Enzo Reyes
Live Demonstration: GPU Programming

2:30pm to 2:50pm Dr Paul McIntosh
Live Demonstration: HPC Visualisation

3:00pm to 3:20pm Keith Liow
Computational Engineering

4:15pm to 4:35pm Lev Lafayette
Drupal for eResearchers

For further information including a detailed list of seminars by VPAC and Monash collaborators please visit http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/events/e-xpo/2010/index.html

VPAC is now accepting applications from students at member universities for this years summer internship. The intern program provides the opportunity to participate in specific projects that vary from year to year, promoting specific research, developing pilot or proof of concept software, and improving technical skills.

Students at member universities can contact their employment and intern office for details on how to apply.

For more information please visit our Internships webpage.

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are highly parallelised processors which, when used heterogeneously with a CPU, can provide advanced computing applications with speed ups of up to 100x.

The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing is inviting members and industry to attend a GPU computing workshop co-hosted by Swinburne University of Technology with sponsorship from Xenon Systems on the 28th July.

Attendees will be provided with demonstrations and talks from industry developers NVIDIA and local researchers who hold first hand experience in using GPU technologies.

To learn more, or to register for this event please visit http://www.vpac.org/gpuworkshop

The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) is scheduling a Windows CE 6 R2 Training course from Wed 21st July to Fri 23rd.

Building Solutions Using Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2

Course duration is 3 days

Course Instructor; David Jones

Location is 110 Victoria St, Carlton South, Victoria , Australia.

Time: 8.30AM to 5PM

Course fee: $2000 + GST per participant

Requirements: Course labs will use participant’s laptops. The required software will be supplied and will need to be installed. Details upon registration.

Payment: A deposit of $200 is required by July 1 via Bank Transfer. Participants will receive an invoice for the balance after the course.

Alternatively, the full amount can be paid in advance.

Course Content to the attached document

Contact: davidj@vpac.org

If interested please send a reply with the following contact information:

• Name :
• Company :
• Address :
• Phone :
• Fax :
• Mobile :

We will then send you back an invoice for the deposit with banking details.

VPAC will be having a planning outage on June 29. Systems affected include the following clusters; Tango, Wexstan, Edda

VPAC will be re-distributing some of the home storage. Updating the user authentication system. Upgrade the operating system on Tango to CentOS 5.5. and conducting general systems upgrades. The outage will be in force for 9 hours.

The impact will result in no change in use, but there will be better access to home partition.
Some applications may need to be recompiled (due to the OS upgrade).

Jobs submitted to the queues that would run longer than the start of the outage will be held in the queue until after the cluster resumes service.

For further information email help@vpac.org or telephone (03) 9925 4410