SKA to build one of the world's fastest supercomputers in Cape Town

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South Africa will host one of the fastest supercomputers in the world

The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project will build two supercomputers that would be the joint sixth fastest in the world if they were finished today, according to Top500.

The supercomputers are being built for the SKA-Mid and SKA-Low arrays. The SKA-Low project is being hosted in Australia, and most of the SKA-Mid array will be in South Africa. One of the computers will be based in Cape Town.
 
Sssshhhhh - Don't publish articles like this. The c-ANC-er and their relevant revolutionaries will tender this into oblivion
 
Feel sorry for the Data Centre people having to rely on Diesel burning, seeing that EsCum cant even keep the lights on.
 
hansotto said:
Will they have power to run it??? :cool:
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I'm one of the two people, that currently look after the infrastructure of the current pre-SKA Regional data centres, "data to science" cluster. As we put it "HTC" - High Throughput Computing, in Cape Town.

This is not the NRF's cluster that does the actual Meerkat/PRE-SKA storage. We process it.

Here is my power dashboard of 1 row, I've got 2 rows. If i drop the Huawei nodes, it will save about 50%. We will be decomming them sometime soon. Got a bunch of TESLA V100/P100/A100's that is also not 100% operational, will spike the usage quite a bit as well.

Graph: Computers only

Doesn't include networking, HVAC, Fire suppression, lightning, etc

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jeevadotnet said:
I'm one of the two people, that currently look after the infrastructure of the current pre-SKA Regional data centres, "data to science" cluster. As we put it "HTC" - High Throughput Computing, in Cape Town.

This is not the NRF's cluster that does the actual Meerkat/PRE-SKA storage. We process it.

Here is my power dashboard of 1 row, I've got 2 rows. If i drop the Huawei nodes, it will save about 50%. We will be decomming them sometime soon. Got a bunch of TESLA V100/P100/A100's that is also not 100% operational, will spike the usage quite a bit as well.

Graph: Computers only

Doesn't include networking, HVAC, Fire suppression, lightning, etc

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Hey there

I'm involved in the distribution of compute resources to SKA partner sites - I'm curious what the regional data centres will be doing and if it ties into the stuff that I'm doing
 
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