HPC Technical Updates

HPC TECHNICAL UPDATES

» Overview of Usage of NSCC Supercomputer in the First Year

By Wang Junhong, Research Computing, NUS Computer Centre on 24 Feb, 2017
The National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC) has introduced the first-ever 1 PFlops high-performance computing (HPC) system (named Aspire01) in Singapore to …

» Strategic HPC Development in 2016

By Tan Chee Chiang, Research Computing, NUS Computer Centre on 24 Feb, 2017
Significant milestones were achieved and new developments were initiated in areas such as HPC resource provisioning, research network development and Big …

» Five Most Popular Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Software

By Zhang Xinhuai, Research Computing, Computer Centre on 20 Oct, 2016
VASP, Quantum Espresso, CASTEP, CPMD and ABINIT are the most popular ab initio molecular dynamics software used for calculating and simulating …

» Open Source CFD Solver OpenFOAM 3.0 in HPC Clusters

By Wang Junhong (Research Computing, Computer Centre) on 20 Oct, 2016
About OpenFOAM OpenFOAM is a multiphysics CFD open source code that is under active development. It is derived from an early …

» Cheaper Cloud Resources with AWS Spot Instances

By Yeo Eng Hee | Research Computing, NUS Computer Centre on 20 Oct, 2016
In my previous article, I wrote about the massive size of the resources currently available in the public cloud service providers …

» Can HPC and Big-Data Analytics Co-exist?

By Tan Chee Chiang, Computer Centre on 20 Oct, 2016
Traditional HPC and emerging Big-Data applications are both compute and data intensive. We will examine whether they have common requirements that …

» High Performance Computing in the Cloud

By Yeo Eng Hee (Research Computing, Computer Centre) on 20 Jun, 2016
Introduction There is a relatively new class of players in the high performance computing arena, in the likes of Amazon, Microsoft …

» How Well Are We Doing HPC?

By Tan Chee Chiang (Research Computing, Computer Centre) on 20 Jun, 2016
The current HPC clusters provided by Computer Centre allow the use of up to 48 CPU cores to run parallel jobs. …

» Large-Scale Parallel Computations Using NSCC Supercomputer

By Wang Junhong (Research Computing, Computer Centre) on 20 Jun, 2016
About NSCC The NSCC supercomputer, provided by the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC), is a state-of-the-art national facility with petascale-standard computing …

» Running Gaussian 09 Jobs More Efficiently

By Zhang Xinhuai, Research Computing, Computer Centre on 25 Feb, 2016
Gaussian 09 Revision D.01 is now available in the HPC systems. With the current LSF job scheduler configuration and the hardware …