Month: Nov 2015

Worker job submission

hpc, SLURM, torque
Most clusters have the ability to submit jobs from inside other jobs. Until recently this was disabled on hex. We have now enabled this facility on the series600 nodes. You can now call qsub from inside your job script although…
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The next HPC hurdle: Co-Design

hardware, hpc, MPI
Co-Design is a new HPC infrastructure design, essentially the next level of performance and scale. Co-design in a nutshell is the ability to reduce as much of the CPU cycle operations to a design whereby there are synergies created between…
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11 Million CPU hours

hpc
Yesterday we received our 50th citation and this morning the HPC clusters exceeded 11 million CPU hours since the commencement of the HPC initiative at ICTS. 5 Years ago almost to the day the first UCT researcher submitted jobs to…
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