Jupyter Notebook
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If you want to run Jupyter Notebook on the cluster and work in this from your desktop the following may help. As you do not have write access to the software volume you will need to do a local install,…
UCT HPC update April 2020
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…
HPC changes for 2020
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…
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,…