hpc

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. …

To the UCT researchers who've been making use of the ICTS HPC cluster we hope it's been a productive and useful resource.  Since inception in 2010 the ICTS HPC clusters,  hpc.uct and ICTS-grid have completed almost 45 years worth of…

We've been playing about with Amazon Web Service cloud based infrastructure for the last few weeks and thought we'd share this. Using StarCluster and following this very cool demo we launched a 3 node cluster on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud…

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For those who have Dropbox space (and even those who don't) take a look at the Dropbox Spacerace.  If you sign up with your UCT email address you earn free space and the more people that sign up the…

Today we installed 4 more 400 series servers.  These are 8 core machines, two with 48GB and two with 32GB RAM respectively.  This brings our cluster up to 260 available cores.  We're keeping 2 8 core 200 series servers off-line…

Dr Bruce Merry from Computer Science has been testing our new GPU server.  The system has 16 CPU cores, 64GB RAM and 4 x Tesla 2090M Nvidia cards with 512 cores and 6GB RAM each.  Initial testing looks promising, the…

Timothy, Heine and I attended the Frontiers in Scientific Computing Symposium.  This two day gathering organised by Professor Kevin Naidoo of UCT's Chemistry department attracted some big names in scientific computing, both locally and internationally. While many of the lectures…

An article in the UCT Monday Paper on the ICTS HPC cluster: http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper?id=9302…