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OSC is refreshing the software stack for Owens and Ruby on September 4, 2018. This will be done by a rolling reboot. During the software refresh, some default versions are updated to be more up-to-date. Information about the old and new default versions, as well as all available versions of each software package will be included on the corresponding OSC software webpage.
Owens
Microbial Genomes is a database of prokaryotic genome sequencing project data.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
Microbial Genomes is available on the Owens cluster. The versions currently available at OSC are:
Cardinal, Pitzer
OSC periodically updates The NCBI BLAST database.
Versions
BLAST database is available on the Pitzer and Cardinal clusters. The versions currently available at OSC are:
Ascend, Cardinal, Pitzer
CMake is a family of compilation tools that can be used to build, test and package software.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
The current versions of CMake available at OSC are:
A total of 23 different institutions participated in the course over the two offerings. Eight institutions participated in both years. A total of 328 students participated in the courses over the two offerings. Of those, 301 or 92% successfully completed the course. This is one measure of the success of the program.
Owens, Pitzer
Initial account consolidation took place during the July 17th, 2018 downtime.
Please contact OSC Help if you need further information.
Single Account / Multiple Projects
Structuring the course in this way provided several benefits to the participating institutions. The nature of their experience varied based on the status of HPC and parallel computing courses within their curriculum. Based on conversations with the participating faculty these are the variety of benefits that they derived from their participation:
| Institutions and Students Participating in the Workshops | |||
| 2017 Participating Institutions | No. of Students | 2018 Participating Institutions | No. of Students |
Participating institutions were solicited via newsletter posts by XSEDE and through several mailing lists of faculty interested in computational science and parallel computing. Participating institutions have a lead faculty member responsible for local course administration. Those faculty:
The project coordination role for the collaborative course was played by Steven Gordon at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). The first task for this role was the recruitment of collaborating universities. This was done through a variety of email lists, XSEDE newsletters, and personal emails sent to previous participants.
