hpc

Playing fair

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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
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Africa-Arabia ROC All-Hands Meeting – Pretoria / March 2013

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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…
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GPGPU Computing with CUDA Workshop

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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
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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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