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High Performance Computing generally uses large arrays of computers connected in clusters or grids.

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Is today's enterprise computing sytem architecture with CPU, GPU and DPU is still Von Neumann architecture?

The current enterprise server rack has, in most cases, more than 1 CPU socket per board and a bunch of graphics card together with a data processing unit on a single board in a node. Several such ...
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Passing in user inputs with mpirun

I am building a quantum circuit simulator using mpi4py. The simulator takes user inputs to build the initial system and quantum gates the system passes through. I can get the code to work if I do not ...
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What is the use of arrayfun if a for loop is faster?

This may not be so much of a scientific computing question but more of a MATLAB question, if that is the case, please feel free to close or migrate the question. Root-finding problems are commonly ...
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How much space store a matrix of numbers?

When we work in numerical analysis, when the matrix is too big the computer runs out of memory (i guess it's ram memory). But how much space does a matrix of numbers (integer, single, double) use? I ...
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MPI_Test not progressing MPI_Isend/MPI_Irecv requests

I am running a CFD simulation with a 200,000-vertex mesh. I've decomposed the mesh into 2 load-balanced sub-domains to test my parallel implementation. In the specific function that I am time-...
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Collaborative coding platform in the style of Google Colab

(I hope this question is fitting for this SE, I couldn't find very relevant tags) I am looking for an online platform in the style of Google Colab with the following requirements: possibility to run ...
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Pricing of HPC resources in terms of power usage

Following the latest trends in linear algebra, power consumption is quickly becoming an important factor to consider when designing and using an algorithm. I've even heard that over time, the ...
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How to begin writing scientific codes in C++ in Trilinos or PETSC style?

My background: I have taken some courses on numerical analysis during my PhD and read a few books on the topic as well. I mostly work on low Reynolds number fluid mechanics and use boundary element ...
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Can Julia be used to create a large-scale CFD software like OpenFOAM?

I have some experience with some programming languages like C/C++, Fortran, Python, etc but recently, I am getting interested in Julia. But, I am wondering if Julia could be used to create some large ...
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what do I need to know to get started in HPC?

I have a huge interest in HPC, cloud computing and quantum computing since years. I'm currently a CS student with bachelor degree and I only have some basic knowledge about HPC from online articles ...
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Distributed computation with computers around me

I know for large amounts of data there are online computation services or supercomputers or Beowulf cluster. For a small quantity of data, a good computer is enough. But sometimes, for medium qty of ...
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How to store a TB size array in C++ on a cluster

I want to do a huge simulation that requires ~ 1 TB of data to describe a bunch of interacting particles (each has different interactions). Is it possible to store this data in an array in C++, so ...
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How to compute the mean 2D slice of a 3D set of data in MPI

I have a 3D set of data v(i,j,k), and I want to compute the mean 2D slice vmean(i,j) summing up the ...
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How to simulate over 1 billion particles?

I want to simulate human erythrocytes in capillaries. I calculated, that for a 1 meter long and 1 mm in diameter capillary there are about 3 billion blood cells. Erythrocytes are actually discs, but ...
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simulation outputs differ across hardware platforms

We've recently ported our Python/Fortran simulation code to a new supercomputer. Some (not all) of the tests (simulations) that we've run on the new platform yield results that are significantly ...
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Regarding Amdahl's balanced system law [closed]

One of the paper titled "Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering" (Jim Gray et. el.) mentions some calculations based on Amdahl's balanced system law. Link to paper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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Relation between IPC and number of cores? Which spec mention theis number?

In multicore architecture, are Instructions Per Second (IPS) and Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) parameters of a single core or the whole CPU? Where to look out for this value? And does it change as the ...
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Computer build for scientific or big data computing [closed]

I'm wanting to build a computer for scientific or big data computing (Python, Fortran, Matlab) and I was hoping to get some advice on the type of processor, memory, graphics, etc I would need. I ...
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Is it Grid/Cluster/Cloud Computing? How are those terms defined?

There are three very connected and widely used terms: Grid and grid computing Cluster and cluster computing Cloud and cloud computing In many situations, it is not obvious which term to use, as I ...
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Super Computer cluster service for students [duplicate]

I would like to ask whether there is a free of charge supercomputer for students, in my current institution they don't have a supercomputer, I am running MD simulations, I would be grateful for ...
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Fast and free server for computing

I have to calculate a huge differential equation. With my laptop, it's going to be computed for several days. Is there a free (I need just for 3 days) fast server for scientific calculations? My ...
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Weak scaling for N-body simulations

I'm going to be doing some weak scaling of an $N$-body integrator on AWS. In the past when I've done weak scaling for this integrator I've fixed the number of particles per core ($N/n = {\rm const}$). ...
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How to implement register blocking for 3D finite-difference stencil computations

I am in need to optimize the performance of the 3D solver that integrates a system of equations for seismic wave propagation. Unsurprisingly, the function that implements the finite-difference stencil ...
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What is the minimum raw FLOPS that supercomputers need to be included in the Green500 list?

The Green500 List lists the top 500 most energy efficient supercomputers. My question is, what is the minimum FLOPS that computers need to be considered for the Green500 list? Do they just take the ...
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Why does sparse linear algebra have a low arithmetic intensity?

I often see the terms "low arithmetic intensity" and "memory-bound" associated with sparse matrix operations. However, my intuition is that a sparse matrix operation should be less memory-bound, if ...
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PBS: Using different computational resources on different nodes

I am using an HPC cluster to launch parallel simulations. At the moment, there are 48 free cores over 4 nodes but not each node do not have the same number of free cores. The distribution is something ...
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Where can an undergraduate go to find cores on a budget?

I've may have reached a point in my neural network research that I cannot continue without significant financial investment. I am using neuroevolution to evolve a network on the EMNIST data set. It ...
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Free access to Xeon Phi clusters

Apologies if this is not the right forum to ask, but there has been a somewhat related question here. I am working on a piece of software (nonlinear constrained optimisation, coded in C++11 and ...
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Is there any scalable machine learning tool like molecular dynamics software NAMD?

I work in Molecular dynamics of biomolecules. I am familiar with the software NAMD. We use NAMD in our CPU cluster with the aid of mpirun. Without GPUs can I implement large scale deep learning? ...
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Leveraging scipy for matrix free finite elements

This will be a very general question. I have a 3D finite element code in Python which I would like to extend to handle "large" problems (~10^8 unknowns in the global system). Right now I am using the ...
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Requesting less than a node with SLURM

I am curious if it is possible to request less than a node using SLURM. For example, if I use the commands, ...
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Sun Grid Engine peculiarities

I don't know if anyone is using SGE anymore (what is the world of HPC using nowadays?), but I need to work on version 6.2u3, I believe, from sometime back in '11. I'm using it on a cluster of 64 nodes,...
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Implementing Frechet Distance on pandas data frame [duplicate]

I am working on a trajectory analysis project using python and its data science related libraries. I am planning to implement Frechet Distance algorithm for trajectory analysis, each trajectory has ...
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Python implementation for Frechet Distance

I am working on a trajectory analysis project using python and its data science related libraries. I am planning to implement Frechet Distance algorithm for trajectory analysis, each trajectory has ...
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Python implementation of Quadtree for trajectory analysis

I am working on a trajectory analysis project using python and its data science related libraries. I am planning to implement Quadtrees for for trajectory analysis, each trajectory has sequence of (x,...
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A good, simple book/resource on Parallel Programming in C++ for scientific computing

I am a Mechanical Engineering grad student, currently working on a project which will be scaled up in the new future to require quite some processing power. I am using C++ for the code that I have, ...
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Decrease execution time using openMP

I have this method which computes the Fibonacci function: ...
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Strong scalability plot, HPC

I have to create a strong scalability plot, which measures the execution time for a numberOfThreads =1,2,4,8,16 with size=1024. ...
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Working with large mesh files

I am working on some medium to large scale finite element codes. By using established and available tools I am able to have an algorithm that scales well up to about 10,000 cores. Investigating ...
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Full segmentation of a linear space using a clustering algorithm

Once again, I am not entirely sure how to describe what I am looking for, hence I have a hard time finding answers using Google or any other literal search method. Let's say I have a time series: $$(...
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Pool two computers for MATLAB parfor without MDCS

I have two identical computers, both with 4 dual cores and MATLAB installed on them. They are connected to the same network. Is there anyway I can run a parforloop using the computation power of both ...
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Using two computers to run one parallelized program with intel fortran [closed]

I have two computers, both with 4-cores and I am running some heavy computational stuff in one of them using Intel Parallel Studio Cluster edition. I am coding in fortran and making extensive use of ...
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Need help understanding cluster process managers and MPI

I apologize if this is a relative simple question. I am very new to setting up a cluster computer and I am attempting to make heads and tails of the information. I was reading on setting up a cluster ...
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How to determine MPI compatibility [closed]

I have recently acquired a server that I will be using for distributed simulations. However, I was wondering how do I determine which MPI version the server is compatible with? The reason that I am ...
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MPI support for discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in Python

I am looking for a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) library that can be run with MPI on Python. Usually, in other languages (C, Fortran) FFTW is used. There's a Python wrapper for FFTW called pyFFTW, ...
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Running a script that asks for user input from a pbs file

I am trying to run a pbs file which runs a script on a cluster. The script prompts for a user input. I wish to write this user input in my pbs file, what is a good way to do this?
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HPC reading material

I am an undergraduate, and enthusiastic about HPC. I am currently familiar with the tools OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenCL, thrust libraries etc. But I want to know the core functioning of these tools, I ...
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Beowulf Cluster For MD simulations

What would you recommend as an all-in-one cluster management software for a Beowulf cluster? We have about 7(most of them are 8 core machines and 1 is a 48 core machine) very good compute nodes in our ...
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How does MPI differentiate between two computers?

I am starting to dabble in MPI. I am fairly new to this area and I am currently reading the MPI standard. I would like to write my first MPI program, a simple hello world program, on a cluster that ...
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Communication overhead in supercomputing

I am looking for credible references stating how much resources supercomputers spend on coordinating versus doing actual task-related work. Resources could be available processing power but even Watts ...

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