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    South Africa's flagship supercomputer is back online after it was hacked to mine crypto

    Ha. Fun photo. The middle rack in the title photo is parts of Stampede from TACC, courtesy of my project 😀
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    South Africa getting R292 million supercomputer

    It certainly is a thriller
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    South Africa getting R292 million supercomputer

    Focusing on a sustainable pipeline starting with undergraduate students has proven to be the most effective approach. Some sites are effectively running with a team of one and those are at huge risk.
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    South Africa getting R292 million supercomputer

    The plan was to distribute Lengau to partner institutes but it depends heavily on the receiving sites being ready and able to host the equipment. Most sites still need a lot of support to facilitate the hosting of even smaller clusters, and the lack of available dedicated personnel is a major...
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    South Africa recycling supercomputer hardware

    In this case, some of these HPC Ecosystems Project systems aren't even "run of the mill" repurposed systems. These are decommissioned systems that - when switched OFF - were ranked at #20 in the world (Top500). It's a major testament to Dell engineering that these systems have been running...
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    Malatsi withdraws draft AI policy

    Funniest part for me is that I am on a panel to comment on it (not unhappy it was rescinded for improvement) and am working on a separate proposal with source 5 author this weekend. I just congratulated him on his AI research paper he never wrote but has been referenced in SA policy 😂
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    DHCP issues on RSAweb?

    Still have strange issues. Here's a quick summary of what to do... LMK if this doesn't or does help. Run speed test on your device Plug computer directly into ONT Ethernet port. Run speed test again If you get max in ONT then try refresh DHCP IP assigned to your router... If that doesn't...
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    Home Affairs applies for permission to ditch SITA

    You could have timed this for May the 4th to be with your post. Once a year and you were so close 😅
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    Home Affairs applies for permission to ditch SITA

    Ah, gotcha! Well, internally some of the team have expressed a willingness and availability to continue the work if DHA asks, and I don't believe anything has actually been decided either way. Agreed that a lot of greedy obstacles need to be overcome to ensure the optimal and most cost...
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    Home Affairs applies for permission to ditch SITA

    Many government-level teams are capable of doing this sort of technical work, but certainly it is viable for the original investigative team to provide this continued support, since they did it for the duration of the partnership contract. The CSIR provides many levels of services, ranging...
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    Home Affairs applies for permission to ditch SITA

    There's a reference in this article about a DHA partnership with another government entity, that included remedial actions. As part of the assessment of its IT environment, home affairs partnered with the CSIR to diagnose issues in its IT systems, perform a root cause analysis and implement...
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    Home Affairs applies for permission to ditch SITA

    I can't say for ALL things relating to DHA, but at least certain things require individuals to sign a Secrecy Act contract. Some public news articles have already mentioned the involvement of the CSIR in a recent evaluation for DHA, so that's clearly not bound as a secret any more. I'll say...
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    Home Affairs applies for permission to ditch SITA

    Not entirely. There's potentially a separate govt. entity capable of supporting this (and actually did do some internal improvements) for very reasonable cost, and it will be an internal transfer. Not all govt. teams are in the business of profit across govt. departments.
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    Home Affairs applies for permission to ditch SITA

    Actually, it did happen with the ANC Minister. Unfortunately SITA hit back with things like "bronze package" etc which was very misleading. A team was put together by Motsoaledi to assist with providing information/confirmation that the problem lies with SITA precisely because the portfolio...
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    What Starlink could offer Home Affairs

    I can't comment 🤣(👍👍💯)🤣 Re; the article... It feels like someone stared up at the sky, imagined Starlink, and decided this is an excellent idea and threw an article together to address one single isolated factor that IN ISOLATION might seem like the solution, but it also inadvertently implies...
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