TensorFlow now available
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…
Github no longer accessible from Hex
Last year GitHub announced (not very publically) that they would no longer be supporting TLSv1 or TLSv1.1. Unfortunately the GitHub clients and supporting software have not been kept up to date by those supporing numerous OS repos. If you try …
Monolix install
We recently installed Monolix, a model based drug development computing package by Lixoft. Intallation of a floating cluster license was required to support multiple users making use of the software simultaneously. Procedure to install a floating license: Start an …
Computational Chemistry publication
One of our top researchers, Professor Michelle Kuttel, recently made the cover of the Journal of Computational Chemistry. The computational work was performed on the UCT HPC cluster using our Supermicro GPU nodes. The cover image depicts a highly-branched …
Leap Motion Orion Driver
The team at Leap Motion have released their new driver to power the current Leap Motion hand gesture devices. The driver is called Orion. The team have done an amazing job in providing the most low latent hand gesture controller…
OpenMPI and Montage
We have updated the version of OpenMPI on hex. The older version, 1.8.8 is still available, however you can now select 1.10.1 with the module command. One of the Galfact scientists has compile Montage for us and this is also…
Compiling the latest GCC version 5.3.0
Previously on our blog we described how to install the GNU C compiler. Since then GNU have updated their installation instructions which makes things much easier: “The difficult way, which is not recommended, is to download the sources for GMP,…
Jan 2016 UCT HPC maintenance
What follows is a critical report on the cluster upgrade. Our plan was to upgrade the cluster operating systems on all servers and to bring the FHGFS file system up to the latest supported release, BGFS. Additionally we planned to…
Parallel Octave
We’ve tested the parallel package for Octave and it seems to work fairly well. To install this in your local folder run Octave and type: pkg install -verbose -local -forge struct pkg install -verbose -local -forge parallel pkg list Package…
Docker and the UCT eResearch HPC
“Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere” is a bold statement to make but it sure does live up to it. For the past few weeks the team has been working on incorporating Docker into the UCT eResearch HPC Cluster…