…Cape Town power failure
Thanks to our data center UPS and generator our cluster remained up during today's city wide power failure. No jobs lost or data compromised.
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…Poking the Amazon Coud with a stick
We thought it would be interesting to mint ourselves some Amazon Cloud servers and put them to the test. The results were quite interesting when compared to our home grown cluster.
First order of business was to create 3 t1.micro
…Amazon Web Services
We're currently looking at running some tests on Amazon Web Services to quantify the price difference between running jobs locally vs running them in a production cloud. Applicants would be researchers who are currently using ICTS HPC services and non-proprietary
…Dropbox free space
For those who have Dropbox space (and even those who don't) take a look at the Dropbox Spacerace. If you sign up with your UCT email address you earn free space and the more people that sign up the…
New 400 series servers
Today we installed 4 more 400 series servers. These are 8 core machines, two with 48GB and two with 32GB RAM respectively. This brings our cluster up to 260 available cores. We're keeping 2 8 core 200 series servers off-line…
New toys – GPU server and Ganglia
Dr Bruce Merry from Computer Science has been testing our new GPU server. The system has 16 CPU cores, 64GB RAM and 4 x Tesla 2090M Nvidia cards with 512 cores and 6GB RAM each. Initial testing looks promising, the…
Scientific Frontiers Symposium
Timothy, Heine and I attended the Frontiers in Scientific Computing Symposium. This two day gathering organised by Professor Kevin Naidoo of UCT's Chemistry department attracted some big names in scientific computing, both locally and internationally.
While many of the lectures…