Nov 2012 - UCT HPC

End of year request for acknowledgements

Nov 20, 2012

To the UCT researchers who've been making use of the ICTS HPC cluster we hope it's been a productive and useful resource. Since inception in 2010 the ICTS HPC clusters, hpc.uct and ICTS-grid have completed almost 45 years worth of…

AWS postscript

Nov 6, 2012

hardware

So after waiting 24 hours and then looking at the AWS billing reports a couple of things stand out. At first we were puzzled as to why we were billed for Run Instances as well as Spot Instances. Turns out

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AWS, paying the rent

Nov 5, 2012

application

Below are the comparitave results of some test we ran on various instances of AWS clusters. We also ran identical jobs on our 3 different series. One should keep in mind this these tests were primarily CPU based and there

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AWS and MIT’s StarCluster

Nov 2, 2012

hpc

We've been playing about with Amazon Web Service cloud based infrastructure for the last few weeks and thought we'd share this. Using StarCluster and following this very cool demo we launched a 3 node cluster on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud…

200 series upgrade

Nov 1, 2012

hardware, hpc

Node 200 had become a bit unstable over time so we reinstalled it. Same hardware, just upgraded to SL5.8. We also replaced nodes 216 and 217 with blades with 8GB of RAM to make the 200 series architecture homogeneous. After…

Month: Nov 2012

End of year request for acknowledgements

AWS postscript

AWS, paying the rent

AWS and MIT’s StarCluster

200 series upgrade

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