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Scientific Frontiers Symposium

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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…
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New HPC resource

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We are very pleased to announce that Heine de Jager has joined the ICTS HPC team.  Heine is previously from the University of Stellenbosch and has substantial HPC experience.…
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CHAIN Science Gateway

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CHAIN is an EU funded project supporting the Co-ordination and Harmonization of Advanced e-Infrastructures.  SAGrid is now running a demo CHAIN Science Gateway.
CHAIN demo
The announcement below was sent via Roberto Barbera on behalf of the CHAIN Interoperability Task Force:
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250,000 hours

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This weekend the sum total of work completed by our two clusters (HPC and Grid) surpassed the 250,000 hour mark.  It's been great watching the rate of use increase as more researchers start making use of our infrastructure. HPC usage Of interest…
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More toys

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We've added a few more servers to the 200 series and will hopefully add a few more next week.  In all we should increase our cluster by about 18 cores.  To cope with this we've modified our dashboard to more…
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AWS’s pursuit for cloud storage domination

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Amazon Web Services rolled out a very attractive storage offering which will see it become, in my personal opinion, the custodian in cloud storage and "big data" solutions. Not only does AWS have a reliable and well crafted network infrastructure…
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Molecular visualization

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Why is molecular visualization cool?  Take a look at this animation from WEHI:



One of the molecular visualization tools we support is NAMD.  We recently updated our version from 2.7 to 2.9 and compiled it to run with OpenMPI…
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Rough week

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On Monday the 13th of August at about 19:10 we had a power failure in one of our racks.  All the servers in the 4 right most columns in all enclosures lost power.  We're still not sure exactly how this
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