Upcoming shutdown
BDC Shut down The Bremner data centre is being shut down completely on Sunday the 12th of February between 08:00 and 17:00. The HAL cluster will be off-line during this time. This will not affect jobs running on HEX. Head…
Monolix install
We recently installed Monolix, a model based drug development computing package by Lixoft. Intallation of a floating cluster license was required to support multiple users making use of the software simultaneously. Procedure to install a floating license: Start an …
New GPU cards
We have completed the upgrade to the GPU portion of the hex cluster: – Installed new GPU004 server with two nVidia K40 cards. – Two additional nVidia K40 cards added to GPU003. This brings the number of GPU cards in…
Computational Chemistry publication
One of our top researchers, Professor Michelle Kuttel, recently made the cover of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The computational work was performed on the UCT HPC cluster using our Supermicro GPU nodes. The cover image depicts a highly-branched …
June maintenance slot
ICTS will be conducting power maintenance in their data centers on Sunday the 26th of June between 09:00 and 17:00. The Bremner data center will be shut down completely and hence the Hal Slurm cluster will be offline. We will…
Compiling the latest GCC version 5.3.0
Previously on our blog we described how to install the GNU C compiler. Since then GNU have updated their installation instructions which makes things much easier: “The difficult way, which is not recommended, is to download the sources for GMP,…
HPC January maintenance
The ICTS hex cluster will be down for scheduled maintenance from Monday January 11th 09:00 to Tuesday January 12th 17:00. The head node, data node and all worker nodes will be patched and rebooted, hence all jobs should be canceled…
Worker job submission
Most clusters have the ability to submit jobs from inside other jobs. Until recently this was disabled on hex. We have now enabled this facility on the series600 nodes. You can now call qsub from inside your job script although…