Recently we had been given a challenge by a student who needed to analyze thousands of input files with an application but found it cumbersome to submit each input file individually.
We started looking at a "for loop" to run…
Want to be kept informed about your HPC job ?
The following PBS directives can be included in the job submission script.
#PBS -m abe
#PBS -M emailaddy{at@}domain.co.za
The " -m abe " alerts you for abort, begin and end for your job.
If you prefer to only be…
Playing fair
In anticipation of more users being added to the Hex cluster we have modified the scheduling rules. Previously there was an open policy:
USERCFG[DEFAULT] MAXJOB=180
USERCFG[DEFAULT] MAXPROC=180
USERCFG[DEFAULT] MAXNODE=180
This effectively allowed users to consume 66% of the cluster at
…Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the Copernican Principle
The Copernican Principle states that the Earth holds no special place in the universe and that our observation of the universe is similar to that seen from any other position.
One of our research groups recently published a paper in
…Africa-Arabia ROC All-Hands Meeting – Pretoria / March 2013
This past week the UCT-ICTS-HPC team attended the Africa-Arabia ROC
All-Hands meeting in Pretoria. The meeting brings about site
administrators from around the country to discuss the robustness of the
regional operations centre, increasing the suite of user applications
and…
GPGPU Computing with CUDA Workshop
29th April - 3rd May 2013
Department of Computer Science University of Cape Town
Although originally designed to handle computation for computer graphics, fully programmable Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) now offer a powerful alternative to general purpose computational applications traditionally
…Comparing apples and spark plugs
There is no definitive correlation between CPU utilization and RAM when looking at diverse science applications. The top usage combination of CPU and RAM is a computational biology application focusing on nucleic acid folding. The computer science application requiring CPU
…Ansys Fluent update
We've installed Ansys Fluent on hex, it's version 14.5 and fully MPI aware.…
NAMD modelling of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Neann Mathai is completing a PhD in computer science, below is a précis of her work:
" My project focuses on modelling Streptococcus Pnuemoniea Serogroup 6 outer polysaccharides, some of which are used in vaccines. About 91 strains of the …
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