High Performance Computing - HPC
Impact of Greek forest fires on near-surface ozone concentrations during the hot summer of 2007, using WRF-Chem. Illustration: Øyvind Hodnebrog, UiO.
HPC is an important part of the department's activity.
HPC nodes
The Department owns computing nodes for its own internal use (supporting Master's theses etc.), and for parts of our external projects. UiO has a spare pool of nodes which can be used. Projects with needs exceeding these usually use NOTUR quotes. At present (2011), we own 224 CPUs on the UiO Titan cluster.
Geofag HPC staff
All IT group members will be able to assist you in obtaining a Titan account, and can also assist you with simpler problems. Gunnar Wollan (also a member of the IT group at Geofag) has HPC support as one of his main tasks along with programming and teaching courses.
This is a cookbook for compiling WRF (the Weather Researching and Forecasting model). The WRF model underlies some of our research done on the Abel High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster.
Matlab is a data-manipulation software package that allows data to be analyzed and visualized using existing functions and user-designed programs. It is an important tool for many of our scientists and students. It is also somewhat expensive.
We have our HPC resources on the UiO Titan cluster. It is somewhat expensive, and there is of course never enough resources for everyone to run as big models as they would like.
This is an example of a Matlab submit script for use on the Abel cluster. Abel usage is documented at UiOs HPC pages