…SEQUOIA SUPERCOMPUTER, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Blue Gene/Q supercomputer built on IBM Power architecture at the
Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has taken pole position in the Top500.org of supercomputers in the world. The "SEQUOIA SUPERCOMPUTER " has a staggering 1.6 million cpu…
Intel releases new coprocessor aimed at HPC
Intel released its Intel Phi coprocessor yesterday which is specifically aimed at highly parallel applications. The processor boasts a whopping 1 teraflop of compute power contained on a single PCI-E bus. Petascale and Exascale computing is definitely around the …
Important notification – ICTS HPC downtime in July
Notification of downtime NB,
please read this!:
This serves as initial notification of the Sunday 22nd July data
centre shut down in 6 weeks time.
The ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the
22nd of…
Folding software
We've installed two new software packages, NASP-1.5 and UNAfold 3.8.
NASP (Nucleic Acid Structures Predictor) predicts the most probable secondary structures evident within a set of aligned nucleic acid sequences and was written by three UCT researchers, J.Y. Semegni, R.…
CPU hours breakdown
Below is a graph of the CPU hours consumed to date on all of our clusters. We've broken down the usage per department or research group.
Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…
Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…HPC Winter School
The Centre for High Performance Computing will be hosting the 2012 HPC Winter School at the University of Free State and will run from Monday 2 July to Saturday 7 July 2012. Registration ends on the 7 June 2012. More…
First citation
Today we received our first citation. It's taken about 18 months, which is longer than expected, however we're extremely pleased and are hoping for another two citations by end of July. The paper was co-written by Dr Olivier and Dr…