We're installing packages onto our new cluster, one of which is R, a commonly used statitical science package. There are various flavours, and currently we have R 2.5.2 installed, however this is without any special libraries. Until we have a
…Introducing hex
ICTS's Next Gen HPC cluster consists of two Dell C6145 servers with 64 real 
cores and 128GB RAM each as well as two SuperMicro servers with 4 Tesla M2090 nVidia GPUS each.
cores and 128GB RAM each as well as two SuperMicro servers with 4 Tesla M2090 nVidia GPUS each.The GPU servers are linked via infiniband and
…Spatial Transitions: Cape Town Case Study
What are the spatial dimensions of social justice when thinking about Cape Town as a post-apartheid city ? The answer is available in a write-up by Fadly Isaacs who made use of the ICTS HPC Cluster during 2012.
Article available…
NextGen HPC
Today we added one of our new servers to the ICTS HPC cluster to see how it would perform. They're Dell PowerEdge C6145 servers with 64 x 2.2GHz cores and 128GB RAM each. At the moment we only have four…
autoreconf fails due to missing AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
Compiling the latest applications on Linux, especially when the OS lacks the latest versions of Autoconf, Automake, Libtool, m4 will always get you screaming with frustration. Its not always easy to upgrade especially when others have a need for the…
SuperMicro GPU Servers and Mellanox Infiniband FDR – Connect X3-VPI
For the past couple of days we have been busy with setting up and configuring x2 SuperMicro GPU servers 2U which consists of x4 Fermi Nvidia M2090 cards per server. Coupled with that we installed a Mellanox Infiniband SX6036 externally …
OpenFOAM
We've installed a new version of OpenFOAM on the cluster in /opt/exp_soft/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/bin If you're going to use it don't forget to add
source /opt/exp_soft/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/bashrc
to your .bashrc file…
Computational Biology course on ICTS HPC
Some feedback from Gerrit Botha at UCT CBIO:
A hands-on course in 16S microbial composition analysis recently held at
UCT and the HPC cluster was used as a training platform. Participants
received a temporary account and most of the…
Work completed
This week the work completed on the ICTS HPC and Grid clusters exceeded half a century of computing time. We'd also like to thank those users who've forwarded us citations.
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