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 …
Github no longer accessible from Hex
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 …
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, …
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 parallel pkg load parallel pkg list Package Name | Version…
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 …
Octave
We have installed GNU Octave on our clusters. From their website:
“GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical …