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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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resources

HPC Systems / Resources at the CHPC

SUN Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

consists of 3200 cores connected to the 480 Terabytes of storage.

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Blue Gene/P

Blue Gene/P

contains 1024 compute nodes + 16 IO nodes which makes approximately 13.6 TeraFlops/s.

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iQudu

iQudu

consists of 160 compute nodes + 3 storage nodes + 1 back-up node connected to 94 Terabytes of storage.

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iQudu

consists of 5 compute nodes connected to 14 Terabytes of storage

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"Infrastructure is a critical success factor in research, and the ability of our scientists to perform cutting-edge research and to be competitive globally is linked to the availability of good state-of-the-art infrastructure for science and technology."

Min. of Science and Technology, Budget vote, 7 April 2005