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Maths jobs submitted to HPC cluster

Jan 4, 2011

Our first user has started submitting jobs to the cluster. The software being used is auto07p for continuation and bifurcation problems in ordinary differential equations. Auto07 can be compiled with OMP to make it multi-cpu aware. Currently each job makes…

Parallel code, benefits and pit-falls

Dec 15, 2010

hpc, MPI, programming

Most high end platforms for high performance computing are equipped with multi-core CPUs. In order to fully utilize the CPUs multiple jobs must be run on each platform or the code must be changed to utilize multiple CPUs. There are…

Installed and tested a proof of concept cluster

Nov 25, 2010

hpc, maui, torque

Installed Oracle Virtual box on a laptop and created 3 Scientific Linux virtual machines. Installed Torque PBS with one head node and 2 worker nodes. Installed worker node software on head node to test pbs_mom, worked fine. Replaced the default…

New worker node

Oct 27, 2010

hpc, sagrid

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…

First science jobs running on UCT cluster

Mar 16, 2010

application, hpc, sagrid

This weekend, Ake Fagereng from the UCT Geology department became the first UCT researcher to use the UCT High Performance Cluster in ICTS's data centre. The HPC allowed him to run several jobs at once; with each job taking between…

ASAUDIT HPC SIG

Feb 25, 2010

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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…

CHPC National Meeting and 5th BELIEF Symposium

Dec 10, 2009

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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…

CHPC course on parallel file systems

Sep 30, 2009

hpc, programming

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…

CHPC Parallel Architecture Course

Sep 9, 2009

hpc, MPI, programming

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…

Definitions

Jun 2, 2009

hpc, maui, sagrid, torque

Below are some snippets to help non specialists understand some of the terms used in this blog. Much of this has been taken from Wikipedia:
High Performance Computing (HPC) - uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems.…

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