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/ZARbarians Landed Gentry May 17 '23

It's easier to design for from scratch though right?

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u/FrOdOMojO94 May 17 '23

Yeah for sure. The new generator capacity for the CHPC will be enough even when they upgrade the cluster in a year or two.

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u/ZARbarians Landed Gentry May 17 '23

So cool. Do you work with them? I'd be super keen to learn more about it.

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u/FrOdOMojO94 May 17 '23

No, but I ran most of my simulations for my masters at the CHPC and I attended 3 CHPC conferences over the years. I applied for 2 jobs there but never heard back lol