LECTURE: Introduction to Unicos (Thu, 30-Aug)

[Dr. Edmund West]

                         OCLSC Presents

                     INTRODUCTION TO UNICOS

                     1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
                     Thursday, August 30, 1990

                     Room 1105, Sanford Fleming Building
                     10 King's College Road
                     University of Toronto

      The staff of the Ontario Centre for Large Scale Computation
  Technical Support Group will discuss UNICOS, the implementation of
  UNIX which is now running on the Centre's Cray X-MP/24. The
  presentation is intended to familiarize users of the Cray system
  with this new operating system. The presentation will consist of
  four 40-minute sessions.


1. UNICOS overview (John Ross)

   * Unicos -- what it is, why we moved from COS to UNICOS, extensions
     to UNIX, correspondence between COS verbs and unicos commands.
   * general--getting an account, documentation, help
   * accessing the CRAY--various methods, direct, stations, VMS/RSCS.
   * Working under Unicos--overview, run in batch or interactive, use
     nqs, stations, etc.  Use of shell scripts.


2. Batch programming (Paul Masiar)

   * submitting and controlling jobs on newton
   * using nqs, the directives, queue structure and all parameters
     associated with it, seeing status etc.
   * working through the VAX station
   * working through CLS-UX station, proxy auth files, etc.
   * using temporary directories on the CRAY
   * monitoring and controlling jobs.


3. Programming under UNICOS (Jim stacey)

   * compilers available, cft77 vs cft, compiling options.
   * using files -- file structure, differences from COS, associating
     to unit numbers, assign, etc.
   * staging files
   * segldr and libraries
   * Optimization tools -- measuring performance, identifying slow routines.
   * using the cf77 compiling system
   * programming for error recovery -- checkpointing.


4. Graphics under UNICOS (David Blythe)

   * The NCAR GKS library -- accessing the library, graphics metafiles,
     file formats.
   * GPLOT on the Cray -- converting CGM files to Postscript, etc.
   * OCLSC visualisation facility: available tools, how to do 3-D
     visualization, animation.

5. Tentative session: UNICOS Tapes (time and interest permitting).