High Performance Computing: Inside Waikato University's Symphony Cluster

Symphony is a cluster of computers, allowing researchers within The University of Waikato to explore uses for parallel computing without needing to find a lot of money up front.  Its primary use is as a computing resource, with 92 computers of varying sizes available for a range of research computing tasks.

Symphony also offers a high-resolution display wall on level 1 of S block. This is used by researchers working with new ways of handling computer graphics, and by staff or students looking for a seriously high-resolution display for still or video images.

In this fascinating presentation Donald Neal will give an overview of Symphony and how it works.

Symphony is one part of the national BestGRID research computing resource.

Includes a light lunch.

Due to the shorter time allocated to this presentation, the speaker will begin at exactly 12:15.  Please arrive at 12pm sharp so you have an opportunity to enjoy lunch before the presentation starts. 

Directly following this event, Hoare Research Software are running a free seminar on parallel computing, with a focus on the MatLab mathematical programming environment. Click Here for info.

About The Speaker

Donald Neal is the high-performance computing staff of The University of Waikato.

His job includes keeping Symphony running, making it do new things, and in some cases thinking up new things for Symphony to do. With a background in both network engineering and systems administration, he is ideally placed to explain why what he just did stopped your job from running.

Registration Details:

You can register for this event via Credit Card online now by using the link below, or alternatively call 0800 252 255 with your Credit Card details.

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Please note that this session may be video or audio recorded for viewing by other members at a later date. As it is possible that audience members may be incidentally recorded, please let us know if you specifically want to be excluded and we will ensure you are not shown.

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