We added two new servers to the 400M series today. This brings our CPU complement up to 176 cores. Next week we hope to add another server to this series, however this one will have double the RAM (64GB) and …
UCT Computer Science are offering an honours course in Desktop High-Performance Computing: comparative parallel programming languages for multicore and accelerator architectures. This course is open to non-CS and non-UCT people and will run in Room 303 of the CS Building
We've started to test the new BackBlaze disk unit. It's presenting an iSCSI mount but we don't have sufficient switch ports to wire up all our worker nodes. As a compromise we've made the iSCSI mount available to nodes 408…
Today one of our users ran the longest job our cluster has hosted so far: 10,780km, submitted from the campus of the Australian National University. ;-)
Firstly a big thanks to all those who made use of our infrastructure last year, we accumulated over 114,000 CPU hours and increased our core count from 24 to 150. Our plans for 2012 is to grow this resource and
Our VMware infrastructure is being upgraded so we got some hand-me-downs. 2 x BL460 servers with 8 cores and 32GB of RAM each. These have been added to the 400M series. This brings our HPC cluster up to just over…
And that was the year that was. 2011 was an extremely interesting and successful year for ICTS HPC. After the establishment of a micro cluster we saw an enthusiastic uptake by researchers, culminating in over 20 users and just over
One of Scientific Linux's stronger points is its stability. It achieves this however by lagging considerably in its suite of default packages, even those provided by the EPEL repository. This is all well and good until some enthusiastic coven of…
The RAM of worker node 209 has been upgraded from 4 to 8GB and the node moved back to the 200 series. We will be deploying a few more 200 series and at least 1 more 400M series worker nodes…