This year has been a very productive one for UCT HPC. We completed more CPU hours than all previous years combined and expanded our cluster by more than doubling our core count and also adding a new GPU server with …
Module in action
The HPC team have been making use of “module” for a while now. A few of our users are aware of its availability but it hasn’t really been disclosed as a “production” ready setup. Well, it is now. Scientific packages …
FhGFS Metadata server migration
FhGFS is a awesome distributed parallel filesystem. Its simple and so powerful with a RDMA backend that knocks the performance socks off other distributed filesystems, IMHO. Today however I needed to migrate the metadata server from one host ( a…
Python Anaconda
We have installed and configured two Anaconda Python environments
into the HEX cluster. The environment can be loaded running the
following command " module avail ". This will list all the modules
available for loading. Execute " module load python/anaconda-python-2.7…