Scientific Computing Services continues to make improvements to the batch service. The production LSF configuration now supports the NVIDIA GPUs in the SUNCAT Photon Science cluster. The job scheduler will now track GPU and CPU usage independently, increasing the overall utilization of the cluster.
Scientific Computing Services installed a recompiled OpenMPI package on the PPA "bullet" and "orange" clusters. This upgrade provides tighter integration with the OpenMPI runtime environment and makes it easier to run parallel compute jobs with LSF.
Scientific Computing Services held its first Town Hall meeting on Unix Services on Thursday, December 12. The meeting was attended by approximately 30 people from around the Lab. The agenda included an overview of SCS organization, recent activities, plans for the next 1-3 months, and a lightning talk on "Serf - A lightweight ad-hoc event system for batch job coordination". This event was held to promote communication, cooperation and collaboration among scientific computing professionals at SLAC.