Archive for July, 2008

VPAC Users Mailing List

Monday, July 28th, 2008

We now have a VPAC users mailing list up and running for people who want a forum for informal discussions about the clusters and software here at VPAC. If you are a VPAC user please feel free to subscribe and join in the conversation!

Grid Systems Adminstrator/Programmer wanted

Monday, July 28th, 2008

We are looking for someone to join the systems team here to work on grid computing, including things like Shibboleth, SSL certificates, Globus and the like.
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VPAC software updates

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

After too long a break on the blog, here’s a quick update on software packages that have arrived at VPAC over the past few months, and some information on how to access them.

A sample of the new and updated packages are:

  • Gaussian 03 with Linda (Tango)
  • Gaussian 03 SMP, single node only (Edda)
  • Amber 10 (Tango)
  • MATLAB Distributed Computing Server (Tango)
  • GAMESS-US (Tango)
  • MrBayes (Tango, already on Edda)
  • Dock v6 (Tango and Edda)
  • Schrodinger (Tango)
  • MOPAC 2007 (Tango)
  • AMD Core Maths Libraries - ACML (Tango)
  • Wine 1.0 and 1.1.1 (Tango)

We are introducing controls to licensed commercial software to ensure that users are aware of their rights and obligations when using such packages. To get access to such a package just login to the VPAC website at www.vpac.org with your cluster user name and password and click the “Add Software” button.