From djac at stanford.edu Fri Sep 21 09:12:20 2012 From: djac at stanford.edu (Technology Training) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:12:20 -0700 Subject: [opensource] Today's free Tech Briefing: FarmShare - Shared Computing Environment Message-ID: <17C304AB-59EC-4BC2-A5C2-CDCEEDBFCE75@stanford.edu> Good morning, Please join us for today's Tech Briefing on FarmShare - Shared Computing Environment in Turing Auditorium from 2-3:30 p.m. Note: Although this topic is more for the technical crowd, all are welcome to learn more about Stanford's free shared research computing environment. Feel free to forward this email to those who will benefit from today's session. ------------------------------ Trouble viewing? View at http://bit.ly/tb-farmshare Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. Please forward this email to those who may benefit from this session. This week's free Tech Briefing FarmShare - Shared Computing Environment TODAY 2 - 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111) PRESENTER: Alex Chekholko, IT Services FarmShare is Stanford's free shared research computing environment, available to anyone with a fully-sponsored SUNetID. In this session, learn how to get started with FarmShare, see examples of the format, and learn about FarmShare features, including how it: - Supports different types of computing tasks - Maintains locally installed software on each machine - Provides a selection of software, including popular licensed applications - Supports long-running, multi-day jobs, as well as parallel processing (via MPI or OpenMP). - Includes a resource management and scheduling system (Grid Engine) More information at http://farmshare.stanford.edu. Miss a Tech Briefing? Session Videos are now available! To see the latest filmed Tech Briefings, visit the new Video Series site at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ttsdocs/cgi-bin/techbriefingvideos To subscribe to the Tech Briefings RSS feed via Stanford Events, point your RSS reader/browser/catcher to: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml. QUESTIONS? Call Technology Training at 723-4391 or send email to techtraining at stanford.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: