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.…
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.
The announcement below was sent via Roberto Barbera on behalf of the CHAIN Interoperability Task Force:
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.
Of interest…
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…
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…
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
UCT's Computational Biology group has been using the ICTS HPC cluster to investigate Bipolar Disorder predisposition. Below Gerrit Botha gives a summary of the methods used.
Bipolar Disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric illness, characterised by extremes in mood whereby