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. …
PI visualization over time
A visualization of researcher uptake by our 300+ PIs over the last 15 years. …
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…
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…
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. …
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…
HPC moving to new racks in UCDC
The UCT HPC cluster is being migrated to its final location in the newly refurbished ICTS data center. The move will take place in the first week of June during which time the cluster will be unavailable. The cluster will…
HPC unavailable 20-21 April
The HPC cluster will be unavailable during the weekend of the 20th of April due to a network upgrade. We will be placing the cluster into draining mode at 17:00 on Friday the 19th at which point no new jobs…