Rocks Cluster Management Toolkit receives 2 new awards

HPCwire, the publication of record for high performance computing, has announced the winners of the 2005 Reader's and Editors Choice Awards.

NPACI-Rocks the Cluster Management toolkit developed by UCSD and where UiT is a contributor and responsible for the PBS-roll received two new awards.

Snowstorm Upgraded

Tuesday, September 20th, the Snowstorm cluster was upgraded from 1 Teraflop to 2 Teraflops by doubling the number of nodes from 49 to 99 nodes.

SCI Interconnect Installed

February 21th, 2005
Thursday, February 17th, a high speed interconnect was installed on 25 of the Snowstorm cluster nodes in Tromsø. This means that 100 Itanium2-processors are interconnected through Dolphin SCI, while the rest of the system will be connected through Infiniband.

New Teraflop Supercomputer to Tromsø

November 7th, 2004
At 14:00 on Wednesday November 10th, Norway`s first 64-bit Teraflop cluster was installed at the University of Tromsø. In less than 4 hours the HPC-group at UiT had upgraded the system from 100 Gigaflop to 1 Teraflop. The installation was broadcasted live on the Internet, and was watched by over 750 people

Rocks Cluster Management Toolkit recieves 3 awards

HPCwire, the publication of record for high performance computing, has announced the winners of the 2004 Reader's Choice Awards.

NPACI-Rocks the Cluster Management toolktit developed by UCSD and where UiT is a contributor and responsible for the PBS-roll recieved three awards.

System Maintenance on Snowstorm

November 2, 2004

Snowstorm will be taken down for system maintenance on Friday November 5th at 10:00 AM.

NOTUR 2004 conference

March 10th, 2004



The NOTUR 2004 Gathering will be held at the University of Tromsø June 9.-11.

Apply for HPC time 1. period 2004

February 11th, 2004

The current computer grants period expires March 28., 2004. Submission deadline for next period (April - September) is March 1. 2004.

Supercomputer Day

September 29th, 2003

Legorobots

A national Supercomputer day was held during Forskningsdagene on September 26th. A number of activites at the HPC-centers were aimed at pupils from videregående skoler all over the country.

Apply for HPC time 2. period 2003

August 27th, 2003

The current computer grants period expires September 28., 2003. Submission deadline for next period (September 29. 2003 - March 27. 2004) is September 1. 2003.