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CHPC Introductory Scientic Programming School
15 November 2011
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.
CSIR Executive Visits Rosebank Office
24 October 2011
Rosebank CSIR employees were honoured to welcome their executive leadership to their offices. The visit comes shortly after the extension of the CEO's (Dr Sibisi) term of office by another five-years
Moroccan Delegation Visits the CHPC
24 October 2011
The Moroccans special interests in South Africa’s information and communication technologies, high computational facilities, bioprospecting, nanotechnology and photonics led them to the Meraka Institute and the CHPC. The delegation visited the centre to get a glimpse of its infrastructure, understand the nature of the research the centre facilitates and to hopefully initiate future collaborations with the CHPC
Enabling science through cybertechnology
The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) has a vision to provide South African researchers with world-class facilities and make our country a destination for high-end computing within the southern hemisphere.
The CHPC is one of three primary pillars of the national cyberinfrastructure intervention supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The South African National Research Network (SANReN) and the Very Large Databases (VLDB) complement the CHPC through the provision of high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity, and the effective curation of a variety of notably large databases. The CHPC is an initiative of the Department of Science & Technology and is managed by the Meraka Institute of the CSIR.
The fastest supercomputer in Africa
On 8 September 2009, the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Naledi Pandor, launched the CHPC's SUN Constellation system - the fastest supercomputer in Africa and amongst the fastest in the world as rated by the top500.org list of top 500 super computers. The machine is made up of the latest Intel Nehalem 8-core processing units with a state-of-the-art on-rack water cooling system.
Using its over 2000 processors and 400 terabytes of storage, along with its smaller siblings (the 256 processor 2 TB shared memory SUN M9000 and the 384 core SUN Harpertown cluster) the CHPC aims to enhance significant research, address grand challenges, and grow computational research into a viable mode alongside experiment and theory across all academic disciplines.
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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CHPC National Meeting 2011
We are pleased to invite you to the Centre for High Performance Computing National Conference to be held from 7 to 9 December 2011 at the CSIR International Convention Centre (ICC) in Pretoria.
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