New Grid site – ZA-UCT-ICTS
The new Grid site at UCT is up and running. It consists of a CE and a single worker node with 8 CPUs.…
New kit for UCT ICTS grid
ICTS took delivery of 3 HP BL460G6 blade servers. Each has 2 quad core processors (Intel Xeon 2400MHz) and 16GB of RAM. Additionally they come with fibre channel cards to attach to the SAN.
Initially we will configure them as…
Initially we will configure them as…Top BDII ldap issues resolved
Fixed a bandwidth problem with the Top BDII, ldap queries were taking too long.…
EVO video conferencing
In order to support the distributed operations team for SAGrid we will be making use of EVO, Enabling Virtual Organizations, a video conferencing solution from Caltech.
The Meraka Institute has put in place a PANDA reflector server for South…
The Meraka Institute has put in place a PANDA reflector server for South…Grid training in Sicily
Tim and Andrew spent the last two weeks at the Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Catania, Sicily on a Grid training course. The INFN host GILDA, the training facility for the European Grid Initiative and run frequent training…
Definitions
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.…
High Performance Computing (HPC) - uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems.…