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What is the National Facility?

What is the National Facility?
National Facility
National Facility Resources
The VU (vayu) at the National Facility
The XE Architecture
Sun Constellation Cluster - 'vayu'

Applying for accounts on VU

Accessing the VU
Edit Your Environment Settings
Summary - Logging in and Getting Information
Editors on the XE
Xterm under Windows or Macintosh

Compiling, Optimising, using Libraries
Compiling and Optimising
Using Compiler Options
Compiler optimisation
Libraries
Libraries

Batch Queueing System
Batch Queueing System
Using the Queueing System
Scheduling and Job Suspension
Batch queue structure
Long running jobs?
Submit a job to the batch queue
runjob script

Filesystems
Filesystems Overview
Global File Systems
Writing to /short
Input/Output Warning
Using the MDSS
Using the MDSS - Example
Using /jobfs
Managing Files between /short, /jobfs and MDSS
Example job script using /jobfs

Parallelisation
Parallelism
An Accountant's View of the Parallel Economy
Writing parallel code
OpenMP Advantages
OpenMP Disdvantages
Running OpenMP code
Automatic parallelisation
MPI
Running MPI code
MPI vs OpenMP - which should I use?

Debugging
idb
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