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
…Dropbox free space
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…
New 400 series servers
Today we installed 4 more 400 series servers. These are 8 core machines, two with 48GB and two with 32GB RAM respectively. This brings our cluster up to 260 available cores. We're keeping 2 8 core 200 series servers off-line…
New toys – GPU server and Ganglia
Dr Bruce Merry from Computer Science has been testing our new GPU server. The system has 16 CPU cores, 64GB RAM and 4 x Tesla 2090M Nvidia cards with 512 cores and 6GB RAM each. Initial testing looks promising, the…
Scientific Frontiers Symposium
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…
UCT Monday Paper article
An article in the UCT Monday Paper on the ICTS HPC cluster:
http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper?id=9302…
New HPC resource
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 Science Gateway
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:
…250,000 hours
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…
Of interest…