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New worker node

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Added srvslngrd011.uct.ac.za to the cluster.  This is the old CE which has now been virtualized.  It's a HP BL460 HP blade with 8 cpus and 16GB of RAM.  This brings our current cluster up to 24 cpus, available to both…
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ASAUDIT HPC SIG

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Andrew Lewis and Tim Carr presented a strategy for a sustainable HPC service at UCT to the ASAUDIT HPC Special Interest Group in Bloemfontein.  The talk focused on issues of attracting users, supporting applications as well as the life cycle…
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CHPC National Meeting and 5th BELIEF Symposium

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Andrew Lewis attended the CHPC National Meeting and 5th BELIEF Symposium in Sandton on behalf of Sakkie van Rensburg.  BELIEF (Bringing European eLectronic e-Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers) is an EU FP7 project supporting the goals of e-Infrastructure projects.  Its objective…
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CHPC course on parallel file systems

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Andrew Lewis and Timothy Carr attended a 3 day course at the CHPC on Sun Hybrid System for storage and job submission followed by a course on parallel computing run by Dr James Wood.  The course focused on Lustre, a…
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CHPC Parallel Architecture Course

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Timothy Carr and Andrew Lewis attended a 3 day parallel architecture course at the Center for High Performance Computing in Mowbray.  The course covered new chip designs as well as programming methdology for OpenMP and MPI.  The course was run…
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About

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In 2009 ICTS embarked on a project to investigate the delivery of high performance computing services for education and research.  The purpose of this blog is to keep UCT staff and students informed as to the progress and developments of…
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