Scripting on Supercomputers

Monads are a powerful way of structuring functional programs. They are used in functional languages like haskell or F# to define control flo...

Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashe...

We all know that scripting languages are often used as glueing unix commands together. But the ultimate glueing language is R. By using R yo...

In order to give our users the maximum freedom, we are not installing perl modules systemwide, but the modules have to be installed on a per...

LRZ is giving a course on "Visualisation of Large Data Sets on Supercomputers". Here are some of the slides: Hardware @ LRZ VAPOR...

Today at 12:00 at the International Supercomputing Conference ISC2010 here in Hamburg, Intel announced a new accelerator card featuring 32 c...

Here at LRZ we have a large SGI Altix 4700 Supercomputer . Lately we have compiled an MPI-enabled version of R for this beast . The machine...