ANSYS Fluent
We recently installed ANSYS Fluent 13.0, which allows users to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications.
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…AWS’s pursuit for cloud storage domination
Amazon Web Services rolled out a very attractive storage offering which will see it become, in my personal opinion, the custodian in cloud storage and "big data" solutions. Not only does AWS have a reliable and well crafted network infrastructure…
Molecular visualization
Why is molecular visualization cool? Take a look at this animation from WEHI:
One of the molecular visualization tools we support is NAMD. We recently updated our version from 2.7 to 2.9 and compiled it to run with OpenMPI…
One of the molecular visualization tools we support is NAMD. We recently updated our version from 2.7 to 2.9 and compiled it to run with OpenMPI…
Rough week
On Monday the 13th of August at about 19:10 we had a power failure in one of our racks. All the servers in the 4 right most columns in all enclosures lost power. We're still not sure exactly how this
…Single particle reconstruction of Malarial gene Glutamine Synthetase
EMAN2 is a greyscale scientific image processing suite with a primary focus on processing data from transmission electron microscopes. Satish Patel, a masters student from the Structural Biology department is making use of the ICTS High Performance Computing cluster to…
Identification of novel genetic variants in individuals with Bipolar Disorder
UCT's Computational Biology group has been using the ICTS HPC cluster to investigate Bipolar Disorder predisposition. Below Gerrit Botha gives a summary of the methods used.
Bipolar Disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric illness, characterised by extremes in mood whereby
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