Language modelling on the grid
Using the grid for language modelling:
http://trulymadlywordly.blogspot.com/2011/03/language-modelling-on-grid.html
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Visualization of Hemorrhagic Viruses
"The hanta viruses are emerging infectious viruses that in humans can cause a cardiopulmonary syndrome or a hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. The nucleocapsid (N) is the most abundant viral protein, and during viral assembly, the N protein forms …First Light
OpenMPI is now configured on the new cluster. There was an issue with the installation, in that the package was pre-configured to expect Infiniband which we do not have (yet). However after several hours spent battling with it we found…
New ICTS HPC cluster
Installed and configured a new cluster, srvslnhpc001. The head node is a HP BL20P blade with 2 dual core 3.6GHz CPUs and 8GB RAM. The 3 worker nodes are BL20P blades with 2 dual core 3.6GHz CPUs and 4GB RAM…
Maths jobs submitted to HPC cluster
Our first user has started submitting jobs to the cluster. The software
being used is auto07p for continuation and bifurcation problems in
ordinary differential equations. Auto07 can be compiled with OMP to
make it multi-cpu aware. Currently each job makes…
Catania application porting
The ICTS HPC team spent a month in Catania at the Institute for Nuclear Physics, working as part of a South African scientific application porting team. Once again the trip was supported by EPIKH and was extremely successful.
After the…
EGEE User Forum in Sweden
Andrew Lewis and Timothy Carr from UCT accompanied by Dr Bruce Becker
attended the 5th and final EGEE User Forum in Uppsala, Sweden. It was a great
opportunity to meet other Grid users and project coordinators and we
made…
EPIKH Africa 2 Grid school
ICTS staff members Timothy and Andrew assisted at a two week site admin and application porting school held at the University of Johannesburg. The first week focused on lectures and hands-on practicals and covered in-depth the main topics of Grid…
First science jobs running on UCT cluster
This weekend, Ake Fagereng from the UCT Geology department became
the first UCT researcher to use the UCT High Performance Cluster in
ICTS's data centre. The HPC allowed him to run several jobs at
once; with each job taking between…
