Spring 2006 Newsletter
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Letter From the Editor
Welcome to the Chemistry Computer Center's quarterly newsletter. In this newsletter, you will find information regarding:
- How to participate in the Shain Chemistry Research Tower dedication celebrations
- Gradlin
- The new Curie cluster file server
New Computer Center Poster
A new poster highlighting the Computer Center and its capabilities was created for the upcoming Chemistry Research Tower Dedication. The poster will be framed and hung on the wall of the Computer Center. Thank you, Kara Hartmann, for the design and layout.
New Face at the Computer Center
Please join us in welcoming John Rayho as our new 'comphelp' student. John will assist our current CompHelp students with troubleshooting and computer-related problems in the Chemistry Department.
Need Computer Support?
Our Chemistry Network support staff are here to help the faculty, staff, and graduate students in the department with computer support.
Contact Us!
- E-mail comphelp{at}chem.wisc.edu
- Call the computer center at 262-0536
- Stop by room 9311a in person. A schedule stating our availability is posted outside the door.
Participate in the Irving Shain Chemistry Addition Dedication!
On May 5-6, there will be celebrations in honor of the dedication of the Irving Shain Chemistry Research Tower. We at the Chemistry Computer Center encourage all graduate students and research groups in the department to participate in the event by showing visitors the results of your research using computing tools (software, parallel computing, etc.). You can participate through posters, "live" software demonstrations, or Q&A sessions.
We at the Computer Center will have an open-house tour of the Computer Center (Room 9311) on May 6 from 1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. We will also have a computing software demonstration, called Visualizing the Invisible, for high school students and adults in the Gradlab (Room 1381) from 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Please contact Hieu Tran for details.
Gradlin a Success
We are pleased to announce that Gradlin has been effective in helping students in Chemistry 775 with their homework assignments.
Gradlin is a new computer built by the CCC available for graduate students in chemistry computing courses. Currently, the computer is configured to allow students to access it from both inside the Computer Classroom and from outside the Chemistry Department Network. Graduate students are able to access Gradlin remotely to complete their homework assignments and store their files on the fileserver throughout the semester they are enrolled.
Gradlin is running Gentoo Linux. It has a Pentium 4 Processor 3GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. Gradlin, which is separate from the research clusters, serves as a new model that the CCC is testing to expand computing resources to both chemistry and non chemistry students on campus.
New Curie Cluster Fileserver
The new fileserver for the Curie cluster is now up and running. Several test runs with parallel Gaussian03 have completed successfully. Services on Curie should be back to normal. Please contact Hieu Tran with questions.