21 brand new DELL C6620 servers, ready for power and networking. Each server has two 24 core Xeon Gold 6442 processors with 384GB of RAM.
And to top it all off, a DELL R760XA with four L40S GPU cards.
21 brand new DELL C6620 servers, ready for power and networking. Each server has two 24 core Xeon Gold 6442 processors with 384GB of RAM.
And to top it all off, a DELL R760XA with four L40S GPU cards.
Cluster Downtime
The HPC cluster will be down over the weekend of 22-23 March for scheduled network maintenance. We will be placing the cluster in draining mode on Friday 21st at 17:00 at which time no further jobs may be …
The HPC cluster will be unavailable during the weekend of the 12th of October for scheduled data center network maintenance.
We will be placing the cluster into draining mode at 17:00 on Friday the 11th at which point no new …
Our new cluster is now live. The head node is hex.uct.ac.za, for those that remember our rollout of Dell C6145’s in 2013.
At present the cluster consists of 16 C6620 nodes with 48 cores and 384GB of RAM each. …
Over the past few days the HPC and networks team relocated 3 racks worth of servers to a new location in the upper campus data center. This will free up space for the continuation of the refurbishment project. The end …
The UCT HPC cluster is being migrated to its final location in the newly refurbished ICTS data center. The move will take place in the first week of June during which time the cluster will be unavailable.
The cluster will …
The HPC cluster will be unavailable during the weekend of the 20th of April due to a network upgrade.
We will be placing the cluster into draining mode at 17:00 on Friday the 19th at which point no new jobs …
On Monday 5 Jun at 13:45 an environmental event in the Upper Campus Data Center caused damage to the HPC rack. Currently 5 worker nodes are offline. We have ordered replacement parts from our suppliers, however the implication is that …