GPU

Computational Chemistry publication

application, GPU, hpc
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 …
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GPUs and GRES

GPU, hardware, hpc, SLURM

Our current cluster, hex, runs Torque with MAUI as the scheduler. While MAUI is GPU aware it does not allow GPUs to be scheduled. In other words you can list the nodes with GPUs but you cannot submit a job …

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Maintenance feedback

Cloud, GPU, hardware, hpc, MPI, operating system
What went right?
  • The HPC rack was neatened up. This involved moving and consolidating servers, making space for PDU's and removing redundant cables that were impeding airflow. New HPC servers were installed. This task took two entire days as other
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SuperMicro Tesla M1060 GPU System

GPU

A big-bytes thank-you to SuperMicro for having delivered a GPU system for testing. The system delivered is a SuperMicro – Tesla M1060. OS choice was Scientific Linux 5.4 x86_64. The distribution choice was chosen based on our existing HPC …

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GPGPUs

GPU, hpc
We attended a GPGPU programming course at the Center for High Performance Computing this week.  The course focused on new developments in OpenCL and included some very interesting presentations.  We had a also had a brief discussion on the new…
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