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iHub Cluster By Phares Kariuki / April 26, 2013

Parallel Programming Training – at iHub | Saturday April 27

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This will be the first in a series of workshops on Parallel Programming as part of the iHub Cluster’s efforts to spread use of HPC’s in Kenya’s markets. The session starts at 9 am and ends at 12 pm at the iHub Cluster, 1st Floor, Bishop Magua building. There will

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iHub Cluster By Moses Temu / March 2, 2013

How Could Supercomputers Be Used in Kenya?

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Two weeks ago we covered the the more technical aspects of the iHub cluster. Though I did give an example of how a cluster may be used, it wasn’t really one that a lot of people wouldn’t be able to relate to. So this time around am going to focus

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iHub Cluster By Lillian Nduati / February 22, 2013

Power to Mortals

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Never in the history of humanity has man had more power at his hands to influence the world in which he lives. Man now harnesses tools that were not even imagined a century ago to predict weather, plan and build smart cities 100 years into the future, and solve social-economic

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iHub Cluster By Phares Kariuki / February 22, 2013

iHub Cluster Update

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Here’s a break down of what we’ve been up to since we went live a couple of weeks ago: a) SRE Training We have realized that there is a huge gap in this space in the ecosystem. There needs to be a pool of people who can work with clusters, crunching

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iHub Cluster By Editor / February 21, 2013

iHub Cluster | A Technical Deep Dive

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By Moses Temu What is a cluster? To put it simply a cluster is an aggregation of several computers, the computational nodes that are networked together in a way that allows for them to act as one. So why do we need clusters? This is a bit of an extreme

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