Dear colleagues,

This months newsletter on IT @ Bioquant deals with the following topics:

        Cluster News
        Software
        New colleague in IT

Cluster News

        During the last couple of months the biggest change has been the
        introduction of two large machines into the Bioquant Cluster.
        Each machine has 8 Quad Core Processors and 256GB of memory.
        Jobs can be submitted to those machines by requesting the
        appropriate resources in the PBS script or the command line e.g.
        
                qsub -l nodes=1:mem=50gb pbs_script.sh
        
        This example shows a request for one node with 50GB of memory to
        the server. In the case that the requested resources are
        unavailable at the time, the job will be queued and executed as
        soon as the resources are available again.
        
        In the near future we will announce a date for a cluster users
        meeting. We will take the opportunity to inform interested users
        about the available hardware and software on the cluster and
        give an introduction in the cluster usage. Also at this time we
        will outline the next changes in the inhouse computing
        infrastructure. Proposed topics for discussion can be sent to 
        
                bq-cluster@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
        
        For more details on the cluster, check out our IT website at:
                
                http://www.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/about-us/organigram/it/it-services/compute-cluster.html
        
Software

        Mathematica 7 is now available on appl1 and via SSGD.

New colleague in IT

        We are very happy that a new colleague joined our IT group at
        BioQuant on November 1, 2009. Melinda Feucht is located also in
        room 062 (at my former desk). I moved to a new office on the
        first floor, room 144.
        
        In case you are looking for IT support, you can simply send an
        e-mail to support-it@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de or pass by at
        room 062, ground floor.

Greetings,

Marc


PS: Check out our web page at
http://www.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/about_us/organigram/it.html for
any further information on IT at BioQuant.

-- 
Dr. Marc Hemberger
Leiter der EDV / Head of IT                   Fon: +49 6221/54-51-300
BioQuant / INF 267                    marc.hemberger@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg         Fax: +49 6221/54-51-480
69120 Heidelberg                        http://www.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**