Year: 2018

By Zhang Xinhuai, NUS IT on 24 Aug, 2018
Materials Studio is a materials modeling and simulation software package for predicting material’s atomic and molecular structure with its properties and …

By Wang Junhong, NUS IT on 24 Aug, 2018
Many researchers need to transfer large amount of data from one server to another server for backup/archival purpose or for processing …

By Kumar Sambhav, NUS IT on 24 Aug, 2018
Stages of Hadoop evolution Hadoop since its birth in 2006 has gone through numerous changes in paradigms and architecture. Its use …

By Wang Junhong, Research Computing, NUS IT on 25 Apr, 2018
The journey of the second year of service of the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore’s (NSCC) ASPIRE 1 ended inDecember 2017. As …

By Yeo Eng Hee, Research Computing, NUS IT on 25 Apr, 2018
Amazon Web Services (AWS) had recently introduced a new compute optimized instance type, the C5 instances in their Amazon EC2 catalogue. …

By Kumar Sambhav, Research Computing, NUS IT on 25 Apr, 2018
Apache Spark in its definition is a cluster-computing framework. It is open source and has a community support of more than …

By Gopalakrishnan Saisubramaniam, MTech. Knowledge Engineering, NUS-ISS on 25 Apr, 2018
The 5 W’s to ask before setting up a Data Lake What is a Data Lake? There is a defining factor …

By Vamshidhar Gangu, Research Computing, NUS IT on 25 Apr, 2018
A one-stop bioinformatics platform is in development phase, which aims to support a variety of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metagenomics and other …

By Tan Chee Chiang, Research Computing, NUS IT on 25 Apr, 2018
We will be introducing more HPC services and resources in 2018 to cater for data-centric research such as Data Analytics, Machine …