CHPC: Centre for High Performance Computing

National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS) Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) supports the high performance computing needs of the research community as well as industry for South African and African users with supercomputing hardware and software infrastructure and technical expertise to run domain-specific applications. Through the Lengau (Setswana name for Cheetah) CPU cluster, the CHPC supports the running of SOCCO’s high resolution models and analysis. At its launch in 2016, Lengau was ranked amongst the top 500 supercomputers in the world, it currently consists of over 30 000 CPU cores and 3 Pb of data storage. Additionally, the CHPC’s GPU cluster supports SOCCO’s machine learning applications to close the gap between observations and models.
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National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS) Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) supports the high performance computing needs of the research community as well as industry for South African and African users with supercomputing hardware and software infrastructure and technical expertise to run domain-specific applications. Through the Lengau (Setswana name for Cheetah) CPU cluster, the CHPC supports the running of SOCCO’s high resolution models and analysis. At its launch in 2016, Lengau was ranked amongst the top 500 supercomputers in the world, it currently consists of over 30 000 CPU cores and 3 Pb of data storage. Additionally, the CHPC’s GPU cluster supports SOCCO’s machine learning applications to close the gap between observations and models.