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Eric Hjort

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Eric L. Hjort , Ph.D.
PDSF Consultant , User Services Group, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Phone: (510) 486-6876 , Fax: (510) 486-4316
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road
Mail Stop 943R0256
Berkeley, CA 94720 US

Biographical Sketch

Eric Hjort is the PDSF Consultant. Previously Eric worked in the Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Group in the Nuclear Science Division at Berkeley Lab.

Presentation/Talks

Eric Hjort, Larry Pezzaglia, Iwona Sakrejda, PDSF at NERSC: Site Report, A talk at the HEPiX Spring 2012 Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, April 24, 2012,

PDSF is a commodity Linux cluster at NERSC which has been in continuous operation since 1996. This talk will provide a status update on the PDSF system and summarize recent changes at NERSC. Highlighted PDSF changes include the conversion to xCAT-managed netboot node images, the ongoing deployment of Scientific Linux 6, and the introduction of XRootD for STAR.