Developers from the Early Science projects (and Tools & Libraries project) are eligible for accounts on the ALCF’s new one-rack BG/Q system, in its current form as the Very Early Access System (VEAS). If you would like to get access, please email [email protected] or follow the new instructions for requesting the VEAS resource.. The VEAS is currently living on the test & development rack named cetus.

(The system software and compilers on the VEAS are pre-production. There have been, are, and will continue to be glitches, unplanned downtimes, and software updates. In exchange for early access, you must agree to be tolerant of this environment.)

The ESP March 2012 Workshop, “Code for Q,” was held at the ALCF. We had 57 attendees, with representatives from 13 of the 16 ESP projects and several teams under the Tools and Libraries project. After an afternoon of formal presentations on Monday March 19th, we had two days of mostly hands-on work. By the end of the workshop, several ESP scientific applications and several tools/libraries packages were running on our one-rack BG/Q system, the VEAS (Very Early Access System).

If you plan to attend the March ESP workshop, please register using instructions emailed to you (if you lost or didn’t receive instructions email [email protected] or [email protected] and we’ll send them to you). Registration deadlines:

• March 5 – Non US citizens (who are not ANL employees)
• March 12 – US citizens and ANL employees

If you are a non-US citizen and not an Argonne employee, the registration deadline has passed. You should consider coming to the 2nd workshop, whose dates are now set as April 30 – May 2.