Parallel DynaMIT runs on Athena
For a long time I've been searching for more machines to do experiments on parallel simulation for my case studies. Our lab does not have that much PCs, and some of them are heavily used by other researchers. I tried to contact MIT academic computing for help, but my emails have been ignored by far. I keep looking, and finally here comes a chance: the Athena clusters.
Athena clusters have many unused machines during this week, the spring
break. On Monday, after some trial-and-error efforts, I managed
to make my
parallel DynaMIT run on Athena. If the results are good, I might be able to finish my case studies in time. It is not as convenient as doing experiments in the lab -- one cannot do this remotely; I need to keep an eye on the machines while DynaMIT's running. Anyway, this is better than nothing.