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CHAIN Science Gateway

Sep 12, 2012

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:

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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…

More toys

Aug 28, 2012

hardware, hpc

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…

ANSYS Fluent

Aug 23, 2012

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We recently installed ANSYS Fluent 13.0, which allows users to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications. ANSYS

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AWS’s pursuit for cloud storage domination

Aug 22, 2012

AWS, hpc

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…

Molecular visualization

Aug 21, 2012

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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…

Rough week

Aug 17, 2012

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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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Identification of novel genetic variants in individuals with Bipolar Disorder

Aug 1, 2012

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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

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Post maintenance

Jul 23, 2012

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The cluster is back up again after the electrical maintenance. The system looks OK but if you notice any weirdness please do contact us.…

BioPython, NumPy and ClustalW

Jul 19, 2012

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We've installed, two powerful add-on packages for Python. BioPython is a suite of tools for biological computation and NumPy is a scientific computing package for Python. Both are available from the default install of Python on the cluster: /opt/exp_soft/python-2.7.2/bin We've…

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