South Africa getting R292 million supercomputer

[Sensorei]

If I go by the price of a mop at Eskom, then this is probably a Raspberry Pi

Close.

 

[Smiggles]

Can it play Netflix Games though? The Apple TV apparently can't.

 

[Bad Ballie]

I suspect more like a R30million supercomputer. If we're lucky. Or the budget for the R300mil one will be R3bil minimum.

This is the ANC we are talking about, so likely an i9 with 32 gigs of ram to make it super fast.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

This is the ANC we are talking about, so likely an i9 with 32 gigs of ram to make it super fast.

does it come attached to an Edgars clothing mannequin though?

 

[NR7]

does it come attached to an Edgars clothing mannequin though?

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If they continued developing the body 15cm further down they would unlock a whole new market

 

[Swa]

What SA thinks the tender will provide


What it actually provides

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[lotus123]

If this goes the way the OFS tender for websites went, then I suspect there's a laptop being from AliExpress being delivered as "Super Computer". BEE supplier must eat.

 

[KernelPanic42]

So right now we are moving into an El-Nino right now, which means some parts of the country are going to get less rainfall



If you go and look up what Mnr Engelbrecht works on it is things like this:



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Developing and keeping in a researcher who can do this is why you spend R800m on supercomputers. Multiply it by the hundreds of people who use that machine.

I think that is probably quite important for farmers.

Computing power to the people

Cape Town’s Centre for High Performance Computing aims to “democratise” its computational capability. Here’s how.

www.itweb.co.za

It was already bought for R400 million a year ago. Something doesn't add up...

 

[Heisenborg]

Ok so this is actually more ACN tenda kak?

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

Computing power to the people

Cape Town’s Centre for High Performance Computing aims to “democratise” its computational capability. Here’s how.

www.itweb.co.za

It was already bought for R400 million a year ago. Something doesn't add up...

ANC maths...

 

[brattex]

The old one had 153.5TB of RAM. Replacing that with DDR5 server RAM from Wootware is over R100m

Even if you could, you won't get it because it will likely be broken up and given to universities.

https://www.csir.co.za/media-hub/news/retired-supercomputers-power-africas-problem-solver-pipeline

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 challenge.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

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 challenge.

Easy to fix... AA/BEE fix it nice!

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

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[brattex]

Easy to fix... AA/BEE fix it nice!

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.

 

[gregmcc]

 

[RedViking]

This is going to be a huge success.

 

[brattex]

This is going to be a huge success.

It certainly is a thriller

 

[Gordon_R]

Computing power to the people

Cape Town’s Centre for High Performance Computing aims to “democratise” its computational capability. Here’s how.

www.itweb.co.za

It was already bought for R400 million a year ago. Something doesn't add up...

That article isn't a paragon of accuracy: It states that they have onsite 1GW backup generators...

There are also two small buildings, each housing a 1GW generator, should there be any interruption to the power supply.

 

[Athos]

 

[konfab]

That article isn't a paragon of accuracy: It states that they have onsite 1GW backup generators...

Just backup generation the size of Koeberg.