This
week we installed five new servers bringing our core count to 208.
In 2009 we were asked to develop a five year road map of HPC at UCT. Given our inexperience we focused on the two most obvious resources,
HPC School 2012
The CHPC invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to attend the above HPC school and enter the competition. Its purpose is to introduce South African students to fundamental knowledge of high performance computing techniques and select regional teams for the
…HyPhy in hi-fidelity
HyPhy is an open-source software package for the analysis of genetic sequences using techniques in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and machine learning. We installed HiPhy a while back but could not get it to run correctly in MPI mode. It took…
Autodock
We've installed Autodock4.2 on the cluster. It's a popular molecular modeling simulation package and is one of the most cited docking packages in the research community. We've installed both the 32 and 64 bit versions.
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…Crux beta patches
One of our researchers has been making use of the HPC cluster to assist the Crux development team with bug fixing. The very latest version of Crux is now installed on our cluster.
The bug resulted in an incorrectly 'trained'…
100,000 CPU hours
Today our HPC cluster reached just over 100,000 computational hours. 99.993% of these jobs were real work, not testing by support staff. It took only 7064 jobs to reach this total, averaging about 14 hours per job.
In 12 months…
In 12 months…
Head node reboot
This weekend the head node suffered an unexpected reboot. We're still not sure what the cause of this was. However it looks as if the running jobs were not effected.…
Honours course assistance
The ICTS HPC cluster was used as a teaching and demonstration system for the computer science honours course in Desktop High-Performance Computing. The course coverd comparative parallel programming languages for multicore and accelerator architectures.…