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Run Fluent simulation in SERC

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Ansys – Fluent 13.0 is installed in Delta and Tyrone clusters of  SERC.   Pre-processing and post-processing can be done using any of the network-connected terminals or RedHat/Suse linux HPC machines of SERC using 4 CPUs from Tesla cluster.  If you have a good machine in your lab, you can do pre-/post- processing there itself. 1. … Read more Run Fluent simulation in SERC

Set Environment variables and Path in SERC

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There are many environment variables used by programs in Linux. For example, the environment variable HOME points to the home folder of the user. To see the usage, try : username@tyrone-cluster:~$ echo $HOME /home/course/year/username This shows your home directory. PATH is another important environment variable which sets the locations in which programs search for the required … Read more Set Environment variables and Path in SERC

File system structure in SERC

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In this article, we shall see the basic file system structure used in SERC.   You would have known by now that when it comes to scientific computing, the only operating system used is Linux (or some UNIX based variants).  SERC systems generally have some Linux OS (e.g. Tyrone cluster has CentOS) installed in them. … Read more File system structure in SERC

Introduction to computing @ SERC, IISc

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The Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a large computing facility available to the students of the Institute. But many students face the problem of not knowing where to start and how to go about things to perform computations there. Also I found that the SERC website is not … Read more Introduction to computing @ SERC, IISc