Parallel GENESIS at PSC


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Parallel GENESIS was developed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to enable the well-known GENESIS neural simulator to run on a variety of parallel machines. It can be used on any platform that supports PVM, from workstation clusters to supercomputers.

Parallel GENESIS is installed on supercomputers at PSC where it may be used by U.S. based researchers free of charge, subject to approval of a submitted application. Currently a few selected projects may have this formal application process waived. The primary production platform is the Cray T3E supercomputer with 512 DEC Alpha processors. The development and secondary production platform is the Supercluster comprising a number of DEC Alpha workstations networked by a high speed switch. It is also easy to install parallel GENESIS on most Unix workstation platforms.

  • Suitable models for PGENESIS
  • Developing PGENESIS scripts
  • Running debugged scripts on the T3E
  • Overview of PGENESIS functionality
  • Reference Manual
  • Examples
  • Retrieval and Installation Guide
  • Online lectures and exercises