Some of our users ran into problems when trying to download data from the USCS Genome Bioinformatics and BIOMart sites. Their scripts attempt to download segments of DNA via http. While our HPC servers have a proxy bypass allowing users
…GPGPU course
Last
week Andrew Lewis attended an honours course in GPGPU programming. The
course was hosted and organised by UCT's computer science department and funded by the SKA.
We were very privileged to have as our lecturers John Stone who
…A century of work
Today the sum total of work computed on our clusters since we started in 2010 surpassed 100 years. That's the equivalent of a fairly powerful processor working flat out for a century. While we've accumulated quite a large number of…