Month: May 2011

Odd queuing behaviour in Grid cluster

gLite, torque
This evening we observed some weirdness on our Grid cluster.  Users could submit jobs but they were immediately queued.  Initially it was suspected that only one worker node was affected, however we soon realized that all three worker nodes were…
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Parallel poison solution

application, MPI
Having installed Gromacs last week we decided to run some tests to see how well it performed on our cluster.  We downloaded a tutorial which analysed solutions of funnel web spider venom in water.  Given the bounding block size of…
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6 million monkeys

application, MPI
In order to test the parallel version of MrBayes we ran several simulations of the primates.nex tutorial provided with the installation.  This compares the evolutionary species change and divergence between various primates. Primates Running the parallel version produced predictable results.  "Distributing"…
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Introducing Mr Bayes

application, MPI
One of our students requested that we install MrBayes, software for the estimation of phylogeny on a genetic level.  This is a fairly popular package which has been ported to numerous platforms so we thought we'd have a crack…
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