…ANSYS Fluent
We recently installed ANSYS Fluent 13.0, which allows users to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for industrial applications.
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…AWS’s pursuit for cloud storage domination
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
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…
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
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
…Identification of novel genetic variants in individuals with Bipolar Disorder
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
…Post maintenance
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
Gene expression modulation for HIV
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
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