Migration Workshop (from SGI to IBM) and Friendly User Access
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We have recently completed the installation of a 96-processor IBM P690 (Regatta)
computer system which is based on the newly available IBM 1.3 GHz Power4 
processor. This is in addition to the 64-processor IBM SP (Hal) which has
been in production since last year. To introduce you to the new systems,
we will be offering a workshop for users and prospective users of the
IBM SP and Regatta. Please note that our SGI machines will eventually be 
phased out, so this is a good opportunity to start porting your codes to the 
IBM systems if you haven't done so already.

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This workshop will be held from 9:00am to 12:00pm, Thursday, June 6, 2002
in Room B25, 111 Cummington Street. The first hour of the workshop will include
information on basic operation, compilers, debuggers, profiling, and running 
parallel codes using both shared and distributed memory models.  The remainder 
of the workshop will be a hands-on session offering help with porting codes, 
profiling, or any other issues of interest. Room B25 is equipped with 
workstations and so space is limited. Advance registration is required and is 
on a first-come, first-served basis.  Please send Kadin Tseng (kadin@bu.edu) 
an email to register.
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As announced earlier, the new Regatta is not yet ready to go into production.
We are looking for a relatively small number of early "friendly users" 
(http://scv.bu.edu/SCV/fug.html) to shake down the system.  If you are 
interested in gaining early access to the Regatta as a "friendly user", or 
simply want an early introduction to the new system, please register and 
come to the workshop for further details.