hpc

Acknowledgements, CPU hours and HPC shutdown

hpc
Achievements: Earlier this year we listed our 100th acknowledgement, 20 million computational hours and 2 million jobs processed since inception in 2009. If you have recently published work acknowledging usage of the HPC cluster please let us know. PBS script…
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Changes to the UCT Hex HPC cluster

hpc, maui, PBS, torque
If you no longer require your HPC account please let us know. We will shortly begin disabling accounts of those researchers whose accounts have expired. Due to continued abuse of our cluster resources we are immediately reducing the maximum wall…
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Singularity

hpc
We have installed Singularity onto Hex and Hal. Singularity is a containerization system that allows users and admins to create contained operating systems and environments. Don’t like SLES on HPC, then run Ubuntu. Don’t want our version of OpenMPI then…
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Update feedback

hardware, hpc, Infiniband
The beegfs cluster was updated to 2015.03.r23. The fhgfs volume is back up and mounted on all nodes. During the Infiniband switch firmware upgrade an error was encountered. We have logged a support call with Mellanox regarding this. The switch …
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Upcoming shutdown

hpc
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…
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Monolix install

application, hpc
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 …
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New GPU cards

GPU, hardware, hpc
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…
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GPU004

GPU, hardware, hpc
The new GPU server, srvslsgpu004, is up and running. Still to be configured is the Infiniband card and the BGFS volume. The server is being tested and will remain offline until next week. In the server are 2 x 10…
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Computational Chemistry publication

application, GPU, hpc
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 …
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Updates

hpc, SLURM
The Slurm POC cluster scheduler on hal.uct.ac.za has been upgraded from 15.08 to 16.05. We have revamped the hex cluster dashboard. It is now much simpler and is also mobile friendly. The old style dashboard is still available though.…
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