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
When requesting resources please do not oversubscribe
…HPC Cluster Downtime 22-23 March 2025
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 …
HPC downtime
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 …
The return of Hex
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. …