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autoreconf fails due to missing AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

Jan 22, 2013

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

Jan 22, 2013

hpc

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

Jan 15, 2013

application, hpc

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

Dec 12, 2012

application, 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

Dec 11, 2012

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. total hours

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End of year request for acknowledgements

Nov 20, 2012

hpc

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…

AWS and MIT’s StarCluster

Nov 2, 2012

hpc

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…

200 series upgrade

Nov 1, 2012

hardware, hpc

Node 200 had become a bit unstable over time so we reinstalled it. Same hardware, just upgraded to SL5.8. We also replaced nodes 216 and 217 with blades with 8GB of RAM to make the 200 series architecture homogeneous. After…

Amazon Web Services

Oct 21, 2012

hpc

We're currently looking at running some tests on Amazon Web Services to quantify the price difference between running jobs locally vs running them in a production cloud. Applicants would be researchers who are currently using ICTS HPC services and non-proprietary

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Dropbox free space

Oct 16, 2012

hpc

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…

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