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Student Cluster Build Competition
9 May 2012
The CHPC announces the start of its search for the best computer science and engineering undergraduate students to participate in the CHPC Cluster Build Competition. The winning team will go on to represent South Africa at the International Supercomputing student competition in Germany in 2013.
Future challenges see industry finding its way to high performance computing
26 March 2012
Dr Happy Sithole, CHPC Director and Mr Giullio Capuzzimati, Industrial Minerals Director, Hatch, signing the Service Level Agreement between the CHPC and Hatch. Hatch is an international company with services in mining, energy, infrastructure and technologies.
CHPC Introductory Scientific Programming School for Western Cape Region
23 February 2012
A funded, full-week Introductory Scientific Programming School for Science and Engineering students who wish to advance their skills in Linux (Ubuntu) and Python Programming language.
CHPC Initiatives in Data and HPC in South Africa
The centre has recently launched the Data Intensive Research Infrastructure of South Africa (Dirisa).
The infrastructure has a storage facility of two petabytes and is accessible through the South African National Research Network. It operates at a full capacity of 10 Gps/s and provides the latest technology which is based on open source software to enable CHPC users to define their own rules in data acquisition, sharing and curation. The establishment phase was funded by the Department of Science and Technology, following a positive report on the 2007 feasibility study.
The centre has completed the full migration of data portals in Climate Modelling, Astronomy and Earth Observation and is currently migrating data portals in Humanities, medical applications on Rheumatic Heart Disease data and Bioinformatics data on genomic sequencing, amongst others.
Work is underway to drive the identification and curation of other critical research data in order to make it accessible to a wider community. There are also plans to expand the current storage capacity of 2 petabytes to enable sufficient access by the CHPC's other strategic partners.
The CHPC encourages general users from all research domains to make use of the CHPC computational resources.
Please apply here for CPU resources.
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