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:
…HPC shutdown
This serves as the 2nd of 3 notifications of the Sunday 22nd July data centre shut down in 2 weeks time.
The ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the 22nd of July between 07h00 and 19h00
…CHPC BLUEGENE training
The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC), in partnership with International Business Machines (IBM) corporation will be conducting two advanced user training workshops about our BLUEGENE/P System. The first from 15 to 17 August 2012 at the CHPC offices in
…EMBOSS
We've installed the EMBOSS package which contains a suite of very useful tools for sequence alignment, protein identification, nucleotide pattern analysis and much more.
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…Important notification – ICTS HPC downtime in July
Notification of downtime NB,
please read this!:
This serves as initial notification of the Sunday 22nd July data
centre shut down in 6 weeks time.
The ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the
22nd of…
Folding software
We've installed two new software packages, NASP-1.5 and UNAfold 3.8.
NASP (Nucleic Acid Structures Predictor) predicts the most probable secondary structures evident within a set of aligned nucleic acid sequences and was written by three UCT researchers, J.Y. Semegni, R.…
CPU hours breakdown
Below is a graph of the CPU hours consumed to date on all of our clusters. We've broken down the usage per department or research group.
Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…
Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…HPC Winter School
The Centre for High Performance Computing will be hosting the 2012 HPC Winter School at the University of Free State and will run from Monday 2 July to Saturday 7 July 2012. Registration ends on the 7 June 2012. More…
First citation
Today we received our first citation. It's taken about 18 months, which is longer than expected, however we're extremely pleased and are hoping for another two citations by end of July. The paper was co-written by Dr Olivier and Dr…
From vision to reality
This
week we installed five new servers bringing our core count to 208.
In 2009 we were asked to develop a five year road map of HPC at UCT. Given our inexperience we focused on the two most obvious resources,