Dear UCT colleagues,
ICTS engineers need to make an urgent update to the UCT VPN today, to address the current connectivity problem that some customers are experiencing when accessing this service.
During the change all active VPN connections will be …
We have provided an updated wrapper script to start interactive jobs: sintx. Note that this does not replace the standard wrapper script, sint, which still remains available.
We have simplified how the new script works by making the parameters optional. …
Dear researcher
Please let us know if you no longer require access to the cluster, or if you have recently acknowledged the cluster in any thesis or publication.
MATLAB has been installed on the UCT HPC cluster. It is possible …
The cluster will remain operational throughout the lock down with the support staff working from home. We are able to respond to emails, create accounts and install software.…
TL;DR;
– The cluster head node operating system, firmware and storage system have all been patched\upgraded.
– The wall time for ada has been increased from 72 to 170 hours
– Matlab is now available on the cluster
Cluster …
Please let us know if you no longer require your HPC account or if you have acknowledged usage of the cluster in any publications recently. If you still have an account on the old cluster (hex) you need to request …
Hex cluster decommissioning:
The old UCT cluster (hex.uct.ac.za) is being shut down in January 2020. If you no longer require access please can you let us know if you acknowledged usage of the cluster in your research. If you still …
This month marks 10 years since we started providing HPC services to UCT. The landscape has changed considerably since then, we no longer have to rely on “hand me down” servers and cobbled together file services. Our new cluster …
Compliments of the season. Many of you may be asking where I have been and what I have been up to. For the past year and a bit, I’ve been working with the Astronomy crowd on the deployment of their …
The result of a “data scatter” code test compiled with OpenMPI v3 and PMIx-3 and submitted to several nodes on our new cluster. The transport layer is native infiniband and a transmission rate of 8000MB/s is achieved (yes, we can’t …
