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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

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…
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AWS’s pursuit for cloud storage domination

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…
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Molecular visualization

hpc
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

hpc
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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Post maintenance

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

hpc
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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Gene expression modulation for HIV

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UCT researchers working at the CSIR are making use of image analysis on ICTS's HPC cluster to attempt to identify microRNA molecules that have the potential to inhibit HIV infection.  Below is a description of their work by Rethabile Khutlang:
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