hpc

Comparing apples and spark plugs

application, hpc
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
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NAMD modelling of Streptococcus pneumoniae

application, hpc
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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Parallel R

application, hpc
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
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Spatial Transitions: Cape Town Case Study

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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…
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NextGen HPC

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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…
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autoreconf fails due to missing AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

hpc
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…
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