Today our cluster passed 100 million compute hours. Our first proof of concept cluster was installed in November 2010 and was running actual research jobs by January 2011.
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- 100M CPU hours
- HPC downtime Sunday 13th September
- HPC downtime Sunday 26th July
- Hands-on Workshop: Practical Techniques for Improving Python Code in Research
- HPC upgrade Sunday 26th of April
- PI visualization over time
- HPC updates and training courses
- Series – ada:100 tranche 2
- UCT HPC cluster updates
- Cluster updates
HPC downtime Sunday 13th September
The UCT HPC head node will be down for maintenance this weekend. The cluster will be placed in draining mode on Saturday 12th of September at 09:00 at which point no more jobs can be placed on the queue. Logins …
HPC downtime Sunday 26th July
Downtime Sunday 26th July:
The UCT HPC head node will be down for maintenance this weekend. The cluster will be placed in draining mode on Saturday 25th of July at 09:00 at which point no more jobs can be …
Hands-on Workshop: Practical Techniques for Improving Python Code in Research
RSSE is hosting a workshop on Practical Techniques for Improving Python Code in Research
Note, this is not an introductory course on Python.
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HPC upgrade Sunday 26th of April
We will be patching and upgrading the UCT HPC cluster on Sunday the 26th of April. The cluster will be placed into draining mode on Saturday 25th at 9am at which point no more jobs can be placed on the …
PI visualization over time
A visualization of researcher uptake by our 300+ PIs over the last 15 years.
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HPC updates and training courses
IMPORTANT 1 – RUNNING CODE ON THE HEAD NODE
We have noticed an increasing number of people running software or installing software\libraries directly on the head node. Please do not do this. The head node is a small, virtual machine
…We have noticed an increasing number of people running software or installing software\libraries directly on the head node. Please do not do this. The head node is a small, virtual machine
Series – ada:100 tranche 2
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.
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UCT HPC cluster updates
IMPORTANT – SOFTWARE INSTALLS
We have noticed an increasing number of people installing software\libraries directly via the head node. Please do not do this. Many of these installs require a large amount of RAM or induce heavy load on the
…Cluster updates
Accounts and acknowledgements
If you no longer require your UCT HPC account, or if you have recently submitted a thesis or paper acknowledging usage of the cluster, please let us know.
Core reservations
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