R500-million replacement for South Africa’s top supercomputer gathering dust

[Newsfeed]

R500-million replacement for South Africa’s top supercomputer gathering dust

Components that are set to replace South Africa's Lengau supercomputer have been waiting to be deployed at the CSIR since last year. They are believed to be worth nearly half a billion rand.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

ANC lies...

 

[Randux]

We don't need a supercomputer. We have EFF intellectuals.

 

[KernelPanic42]

https://www.csir.co.za/sites/default/files/Documents/RFP%20No.%203671-04-02-2025%20RFP%20for%20Parallel%20File%20System.pdf

Looks like they're missing a file system ...

 

[KernelPanic42]

The CHPC has demonstrated over many years that it has the capability to operate, maintain and support large-scale national HPC systems

... Looks up July 2026 tender ... https://www.tenderflow.co.za/tender...upport-serv-0163ca5ac6b0433b960e0be31f40f5b1/

"Provision of maintenance and Openstack Software Support Services for the NICIS Cloud Production Platform (Sebowa)"

... Looks up Eclipse Holdings ... https://www.eclipseholdings.co.za/projects-1

"We provide a fully managed support package covering your HPC compute cluster, storage, parallel file systems, and, interconnect and network systems on a 24/7 SLA based on-site support agreement . Our experienced engineers will take the lead in managing software issues as well diagnosing, repairing and reporting on your hardware status."

Hmmm...

 

[Hemi300c]

Will this help and stop the Reserve Bank from being hacked so that other countries don't have to inform us of the hacking that we never even knew about.

I doubt it because GIGO is a serious thing.