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C3SE is a center for scientific and technical computing at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden. C3SE is one of six centers in the national metacenter Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing:SNIC logo.

Current and upcoming events

2012-05-15:NOTE: We are currently experiencing some issues with the Glenn file system. It is at the moment not possible to log in.
2012-05-21: There will be a NGSSC summer school in Computational Chemical Dynamics held here in Gothenburg between May 21 and May 25. More information and how to register can be found here. A number of grants for travelling and housing for students from Swedish universities are also available. Deadline for registration is on May 11.
2012-05-15: The next seminar in the C3SE spring series will be given. The subject is software development and the seminar will take place on Tuesday May 15:th between 13:00 and 15:00 in room Pascal. See our flyer!
2012-04-18: PRACE: Call for proposals to access European supercomputers now open. The PRACE Research Infrastructure now invites applications for access to high-end computing resources (Tier-0 and Tier-1). Full information is available here. C3SE can provide assistance in preparing proposals. Please contact C3SE support for more information. Deadline for proposals is May 30, 2012.
2012-03-20: Do you want your code to run faster and more efficiently? Chalmers e-science centre announced CHALMERS E-SCIENCE APPLICATIONS CONSULTANCY to provide support and advice on e.g. code profiling and choice of algorithms.
2012-02-01: C3SE will give 5 seminars during spring 2012 aimed at all of our users. The seminars are independent of each other. More information (date, topic etc) about the different seminars can be found on this flyer. The next seminar will take place on Tuesday March 20:th between 13:00 and 15:00.

Past events

2012-04-17: The fourth in the series of 5 seminars given by C3SE this spring, "Job monitoring, understanding the queue and the scheduler", was held today. The slides from the seminar can be found here.
2012-03-21: C3SE will host a 3 day AMD workshop for agenda and information see AMD workshop
2012-03-21: The login-node on Beda crashed due to users using it incorrectly. System is now up and running again.
2012-03-20: The third in the series of 5 seminars given by C3SE this spring, "Using BASH for scripting and interactive work", was held today. The slides from the seminar can be found here.
2012-01-16 to 2012-03-09 C3SE Graduate student course: Python and High Performance Computing for information and registration see the Course Page
2012-02-28: The second in the series of 5 seminars given by C3SE this spring, Introduction to the Glenn HPC cluster, was held today. The slides from the seminar can be found here.
2012-02-14: The first in the series of 5 seminars given by C3SE this spring, Introduction to HPC clusters at C3SE, was held today. The slides from the seminar can be found here.
2012-02-10: Update: The storage problems earlier today have now been resolved. OLD INFO: Storage problems! We are currently experiencing problems with our storage system. Files on $SNIC_BACKUP and $SNIC_NOBACKUP (under /c3se) are not available.
2011-12-12: Full systems stop! Beda and Svea will be stopped for maintenance on the 12th and 13th December, no jobs will be allowed to run.
2011-11-28: Due to power-failures on the evening of the 27th, the systems were down or unable to start jobs. Beda was up at lunch-time, and Svea in the afternoon of the 29th.
2011-11-16: PRACE: Call for proposals to access European supercomputers now open. The PRACE Research Infrastructure now invites applications for access to high-end computing resources (Tier-0 and Tier-1). Full information is available here. C3SE can provide assistance in preparing proposals. Please contact C3SE support for more information. Deadline for proposals is January 10, 2012.
2011-10-10:Center storage, planned maintenance stop. Due to a required upgrade of our center storage ($SNIC_BACKUP, $SNIC_NOBACKUP and private areas), it will be unavailable during Monday the 10th. The upgrade will address some software bugs, and is also a prerequisite for future fixes. Further information about available storage areas can be found here.
2011-09-05: The National Graduate School in Scientific Computing (NGSSC) will give the course Computational Methods in Statistics with Applications. The course is open to all PhD students in Swedish Academia. For further info see the course page.
2011-09-06: svea, the Svea front-end was rebooted for updates.
2011-07-25:Problem with C3SE's server room infrastructure has caused a disruption on our compute resources.

A problem with the cooling system forced us to shut down almost all servers in our computer rooms.

Older events

Current systems

  • PC-cluster Glenn for national and local users.
  • PC-cluster Beda for national and local users.
  • PC-cluster Svea for national and local users.

Courses and Seminars

External Courses

Misc

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If you have any problems with our systems or if you have suggestions or wishes, please send an e-mail to Image:support.png

Acknowledgment suggestion

If the results you get from using the resources at C3SE end up in a paper or are presented at a workshop or conference, C3SE kindly asks you to acknowledge C3SE. Here is a suggestion on how such an acknowledgment could be formulated:

The computations were performed on C3SE computing resources.

If applicable, also add:

NN at C3SE is acknowledged for assistance concerning technical aspects and implementation in making the code run on the C3SE resources.

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