How South Africa CHPC Responded to Unprecedented Computing Needs To Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
South Africa CHPC's Lengau supercomputer and OpenStack Production Cloud are redefining their path forward for computational resources. Courtesy of the University of South Africa. Read Time: The South Africa Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) has joined the ranks of HPC centers who are converging their supercomputing and cloud infrastructures. The 1.3 petaFLOPS Lengau supercomputer has been the fastest machine on the continent. Adding its OpenStack Production Cloud in early 2020 allowed users to begin taking advantage of orchestrated general purpose computing and storage resour...