SA gets Africa’s biggest computer

I'll take that computer for myself thank you very much :p
Wow...14tr calculations per second is nothing to be ashamed of....
 
Does it come with its own powerstation ? these things usually need more power than johannesburg! But this is really cool, i hope it gets put to good use and we dont have some idiots trying to play games on it:P
 
what kind of data needs that speed? it just seems very political to me.
can anyone involved in medical research give me an idea of the data involved?
 
Jabberwocky said:
what kind of data needs that speed? it just seems very political to me.
can anyone involved in medical research give me an idea of the data involved?
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Yea it is political - VERY much so... they're going to use it to figure out how to rip off the south african public even more! - you need a bloody big computer to calculate chinese math! :D
 
SANReN (South African National Research Network) will link all universities and research institutions in South Africa with a 10Gbps connection. Wits, UJ and the CSIR are already linked up on SANReN. Tenet is going to operate SANReN and they also happen to have access to 10Gbps of bandwidth on the SEACOM cable when it lands.

I visited the CHPC last week and apparently when they're done with installing everything, they will be in the top 50 in the world.

As an aside, I can't understand the level of negativity on this forum. No matter what story comes up on MyBB, it is always accompanied by a barrage of negative remarks. Maybe it's just the South African condition? I would really hope I'm wrong.
 
macPhallus said:
Mapping of DNA?
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I doubt anything that specific is available. Mostly going to be viral loads, CD4+ counts, other labs etc. and possibly drug regimen data etc. It's about huge numbers of patients and number crunching in hundreds of ways. Probably feeding into a data warehouse of sorts for analysis.
 
JohnsonCT said:
SANReN (South African National Research Network) will link all universities and research institutions in South Africa with a 10Gbps connection. Wits, UJ and the CSIR are already linked up on SANReN. Tenet is going to operate SANReN and they also happen to have access to 10Gbps of bandwidth on the SEACOM cable when it lands.

I visited the CHPC last week and apparently when they're done with installing everything, they will be in the top 50 in the world.

As an aside, I can't understand the level of negativity on this forum. No matter what story comes up on MyBB, it is always accompanied by a barrage of negative remarks. Maybe it's just the South African condition? I would really hope I'm wrong.
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There is a very good reason for the jaded responses on this forum. Especially from those who have been following ICT and Internet connectivity progress since MyBB's inception. People are tired of promises and hate seeing our tax money wasted.
 
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