Crux beta patches
One of our researchers has been making use of the HPC cluster to assist the Crux development team with bug fixing. The very latest version of Crux is now installed on our cluster.
The bug resulted in an incorrectly 'trained'…
100,000 CPU hours
Today our HPC cluster reached just over 100,000 computational hours. 99.993% of these jobs were real work, not testing by support staff. It took only 7064 jobs to reach this total, averaging about 14 hours per job.
In 12 months…
In 12 months…
Head node reboot
This weekend the head node suffered an unexpected reboot. We're still not sure what the cause of this was. However it looks as if the running jobs were not effected.…
Honours course assistance
The ICTS HPC cluster was used as a teaching and demonstration system for the computer science honours course in Desktop High-Performance Computing. The course coverd comparative parallel programming languages for multicore and accelerator architectures.…
Large memory machine
We have installed a new C class blade with 64GB of RAM to try and address (excuse the pun) a memory space issue one of our users is having. It's a HP BL460 G7 with dual 6 core 2.8GHz CPUs…
Bioconductor and R
We updated our version of R to 2.15.0. Additionally we installed the Bioconductor package which provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. Bioconductor uses the R statistical programming language, and is open source and open
…New worker nodes
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 …
HPC Honours Course at UCT
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
…BackBlaze test
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…