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. …
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…
New HPC racks
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…
New GPU server
We have added another GPU server to our a100 partition. This server was purchased with funding from several groups as well as ICTS and additional resources will be dedicated to the shared a100free account. The server contains four a100-80GB cards…
GPU cluster
The new GPU nodes have been installed into our POC cluster and are currently running jobs. We installed the servers into our SLURM cluster to allow us to develop hands on experience in provisioning SLURM partitions with GPU resources, something …
High GPU utilization with no processes running
We noticed a while back that several of our GPU cards retained high utilization even though no processes were running on them. nvidia-smi Fri Mar 23 13:52:55 2018 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 375.26 Driver Version: 375.26 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name…
New GPU cards
We have completed the upgrade to the GPU portion of the hex cluster: – Installed new GPU004 server with two nVidia K40 cards. – Two additional nVidia K40 cards added to GPU003. This brings the number of GPU cards in…
Computational Chemistry publication
One of our top researchers, Professor Michelle Kuttel, recently made the cover of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The computational work was performed on the UCT HPC cluster using our Supermicro GPU nodes. The cover image depicts a highly-branched …