IMSL is available on the HKUSUB system which has been upgraded from the Sun Enterprise E6000 server to one partition of the Sun Enterprise E10000 server earlier this year. The new HKUSUB system has four 400MHz UltraSPARC processors and 1GB of memory and runs much faster than the old system.
The version of IMSL library installed on the new HKUSUB is Fortran
90 MP Mathematics and Statistics Libraries. In addition to all existing
functions of previous versions of IMSL Mathematics and Statistics libraries,
this new version includes also Fortran 90 subroutines and multi-threaded
subroutines for high-precision numerical analysis and parallel computing.
Detailed information on new features can be found in the webpage
http://www.vni.com/products/imsl/index.html#Fortran
90 MP.
Up-to-date information about IMSL and the procedure for compiling the IMSL library is also available in http://www.itservices.hku.hk/ccsystem/software/imsl/index.html.
Programs written with IMSL often take long computation time. In order to spread the load on the system and for better management of computing resources, jobs which take more than 1 hour of CPU time are required to be submitted through the NQS job queue system in HKUSUB. For more information on the NQS job queue system, please refer to the web page Batch Queue Management on HKUSUB .
For further information about the IMSL library and for any problems encountered in using the library, please contact the undersigned.
Woo Chat Ming
Tel: 2857 8632
E-mail: cmwoo@hkusua.hku.hk