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The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) offers high performance computing to industry and academic researchers. The CPHC, in 2016, joined the petaflop club when the CSIR unveiled the fastest computer in Africa [1]. Called Lengau, which is a Setswana word for Cheetah[2], this computer is measured in terms of FLOPS floating point operations per second (FLOPS). High performance computers are so fast they can process thousand-trillion calculations (a petaflop)[3]. Fast processing speeds permit researchers, during the COVID-19 pandemic, to model the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These computing resources are a key player for academic and industry research[4]. Researcher institutions can use these systems to advance scientific discovery while commercial firms improve their efficiency or competitiveness. The CHPC is part of the | National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System(NCIS), and is supported by the South AfricanDepartment of Science and Innovation (DSI)

  1. ^ https://www.top500.org/news/south-africa-joins-petaflop-club/
  2. ^ https://www.chpc.ac.za/south-african-chpc-unveils-lengau-supercomputer/
  3. ^ https://www.dst.gov.za/index.php/component/content/article?id=1813:minister-pandor-congratulates-the-csir-s-chpc-for-unveiling-the-fastest-computing-system-in-africa&catid=46&Itemid=101
  4. ^ https://www.technologynetworks.com/informatics/articles/how-south-africa-chpc-responded-to-unprecedented-computing-needs-to-address-the-covid-19-pandemic-348132
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