By Ku Wee Kiat – NUS IT on 27 Aug, 2018
What is Jupyter? It is an open source web application that allows users to create and share documents that contain code, …
» Singularity: HPC container
By Vamshidhar Gangu – NUS IT on 27 Aug, 2018
Most of us, at least those in IT/scientific computing should have heard of Docker, a container platform used for packaging necessary …
» Re-assessing HPC Cloud
By Tan Chee Chiang, Yeo Eng Hee – NUS IT on 27 Aug, 2018
Having seen a breakout year for HPC Cloud in 2017, we are beginning to understand what made it work and how …
» First-Principles Calculations on Molybdenum Sulfide Two-Dimensional Structure with Chemical Reactive Basal Plane for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
By Yang Ming, Yang Tong, and Feng Yuan Ping – Department of Physics & IMRE on 27 Aug, 2018
Hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) have been considered as one of the most promising pathway to convert and utilize solar energy, the …
» Efficient Execution of Mass Serial Jobs on NUS HPC
By Lee Po-Hsien – Cancer Science Institute of Singapore on 27 Aug, 2018
Prof. Tenen’s group (https://www.csi.nus.edu.sg/ws/team/pi/daniel-g-tenen) and Prof. Chow’s group (https://www.csi.nus.edu.sg/ws/team/pi/edward-kai-hua-chow) in Cancer Science Institute of Singapore had its long history and distinguished …
» New License Scheme Brings in More Licenses to Materials Studio Modules
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 …
» Data Transfer Benchmark in High-Speed 100G Network
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 …
» Hadoop 3.1.0 : GPU, Containers and Beyond
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 …
» Overview of Using NSCC’s ASPIRE 1 System by NUS Researchers
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 …
» HPC Challenge Stream Benchmark Performance on AWS Cloud
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. …