{"id":917,"date":"2012-09-10T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2012\/09\/10\/250-000-hours"},"modified":"2022-09-26T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:21:35","slug":"250000-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/250000-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"250,000 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"This weekend the sum total of work completed by our two clusters (HPC and Grid) surpassed the 250,000 hour mark. \u00a0It's been great watching the rate of use increase as more researchers start making use of our infrastructure.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/usage.png\" alt=\"HPC usage\" width=\"428\" height=\"232\" border=\"0\" \/>\r\n\r\nOf interest is how the CPU hours has diverged from the number of jobs run, this is due to the increase in use of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Message_Passing_Interface\">MPI<\/a>\u00a0by researchers. \u00a0The orange graph indicates the number of continuous CPU hours in use.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend the sum total of work completed by our two clusters (HPC and Grid) surpassed the 250,000 hour mark. &nbsp;It&#8217;s been great watching the rate of use increase as more researchers start making use of our infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uct.ac.za\/gallery\/1253\/usage.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HPC usage\" width=\"428\" height=\"232\"><\/p>\n<p>Of interest is how the CPU hours has diverged from the number of jobs run, this is due to the increase in use of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Message_Passing_Interface\">MPI<\/a>&nbsp;by researchers. &nbsp;The orange graph indicates the number of continuous CPU hours in use.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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