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. …
» Apache Spark : What It Achieves That Hadoop didn’t?
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 …
» Data Lake – 5 W’s and Benefits
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 …
» A One-stop Bioinformatics Platform
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 …
» New Services and Resources for Data Centric Research in 2018
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 …
» Extreme Wave-current Forces on Space-frame Offshore Structures
By Dr. Harrif Santo, ODPRT, NUS on 25 Apr, 2018
This study concerns the accurate representation of wave and current hydrodynamic forces on space-frame offshore structures, such as jackets and compliant …
» How Fast Can Amber and Gromacs Job Run With P100 GPU Accelerator
By Zhang Xinhuai, Research Computing, NUS IT on 11 Dec, 2017
P100, the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPU series of accelerators, taps onto NVIDIA Pascal GPU architecture and delivers a unified platform for …
» CFD Simulations: Running with More Cores May Not Be Faster
By Wang Junhong, Research Computing, NUS IT on 11 Dec, 2017
Nowadays, large Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations spanning from dozens to hundreds of millions of cells are carried out commonly to …
» Performance of the New ATLAS8 Cluster
By Yeo Eng Hee, Research Computing, NUS IT on 11 Dec, 2017
The latest addition to the HPC resources here in NUS Information Technology is the new Atlas8 cluster, installed with 2-socket Intel …
» Running Open-source HPC Applications In The Cloud With Alces Flight Gridware
By Yeo Eng Hee, Research Computing, NUS IT on 11 Dec, 2017
Before the advent of cloud computing, high performance computing environments only existed within the confines of organisations’ data centres. Traditionally, such …