Large memory machine
We have installed a new C class blade with 64GB of RAM to try and address (excuse the pun) a memory space issue one of our users is having. It's a HP BL460 G7 with dual 6 core 2.8GHz CPUs…
Bioconductor and R
We updated our version of R to 2.15.0. Additionally we installed the Bioconductor package which provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. Bioconductor uses the R statistical programming language, and is open source and open
…New worker nodes
We added two new servers to the 400M series today. This brings our CPU complement up to 176 cores. Next week we hope to add another server to this series, however this one will have double the RAM (64GB) and …
GCC 4.7 made available on the ICTS HPC Cluster
GCC 4.7 has been compiled and installed on the ICTS HPC cluster. In order to make use of it execute "module add module-gcc47" from the bash prompt on the HPC headnode and it gets enabled with the correct paths to…
HPC Honours Course at UCT
UCT Computer Science are offering an honours course in Desktop High-Performance Computing: comparative parallel programming languages for multicore and accelerator architectures. This course is open to non-CS and non-UCT people and will run in Room 303 of the CS Building
…BackBlaze test
We've started to test the new BackBlaze disk unit. It's presenting an iSCSI mount but we don't have sufficient switch ports to wire up all our worker nodes. As a compromise we've made the iSCSI mount available to nodes 408…