User support

In order to ease the burden of the system adminstrators that are responsible for operating UNICC's equipment, we expect that UNICC users are familiar with the UNIX environment and that they know how to compile programs and perform basic debugging. If not, they should contact the local computer support, or read one of many UNIX novice books that are available. Also note that UNICC does not provide user support for any kind of software besides system software (operating system and compilers.)

• If you have a question regarding the system software (OS, development tools, queue system etc) , of if you want to report that something does not work as it should, send e-mail to help@unicc.chalmers.se
• If you want to install a software package locally at unicorn, you should talk to your local system administrator first. Licence costs are paid by the users, and your group should elect a contact person which is responsible for the user support.
• The HPDR lecturer Rumjana Chakarova may provide user support in the field of parallel computing.
• Finally, don't forget to check out the software pages and the latest news.

Courses of interest for UNICC users

• SGI provides a set of on-line presentations about high-performance computing, computer graphics, chemistry software and other areas. The presentations available may vary from time to time.
• There is an on-line course in performance tuning available that is well worth study if you are writing or porting programs to the Origin server. For those of you who followed the courses above this material is also a good source of reference information.
  Local copy (handy if the network connection to SGI is slow)
• Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) gives courses in MPI and HPF programming. The course material is available on-line.

Last modified 1998-01-10, Lennart Bengtsson