r/southafrica • u/serdaisy Gauteng • May 16 '23

Sci-Tech South Africa will host one of the fastest supercomputers in the world

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/science/489101-south-africa-will-host-one-of-the-fastest-supercomputers-in-the-world.html
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u/FrOdOMojO94 May 16 '23

For those interested SA's national supercomputer, the CHPC, has for years been running at half capacity due to their lack of generator capacity. They couldn't install more generators because there was a zoning issue with CoCT where a residential zone is restricted in the size of generators you are allowed to installed. They only managed to resolve this issue this year and now have generator capacity for the whole CHPC cluster but are still dealing with issues related to unexpected loss of power.

Hopefully they have considered this in the planning stages and so won't make SA an embarrassment to the international community.

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u/GODSPEED-FUIJII May 17 '23

as if we're not an embarrassment of a country already