hpc

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…

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…

An article in the UCT Monday Paper on the ICTS HPC cluster: http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper?id=9302…

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

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…