One of the specialized University in Nigeria founded in 1982. Comprises of six academic schools and a PG school 1.School of Agriculture and Agricultural.

One of the specialized University in Nigeria founded in 1982. Comprises of six academic schools and a PG school

1. School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology2. School of Engineering and Engineering Technology3. School of Environmental Technology4. School of Management Technology5. School of Earth and Mineral Science6. School of Sciences7. School of Postgraduate Studies

Many research and Teaching centres including the WASCAL GRP-WACS

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria

This is a German initiative aims at bridging gap in the teaching and research at PhD level in Climate change

FUTA is the University hosting the Graduate Research Program in West African Climate system.

Admission of ten students every year from ten participating West African countries.

Research in Climate change and climate change modelling

The Centre housed the University’s High Performance Computer Cluster System

WASCAL GRP-WACS

The first HPC facility at the Federal University of Technology Akure was donated by the International Physical Science program Sweden.

This is part of donation of Meteorological equipment to the Atmospheric Research group (ARG) in Nigeria

The ARG researchers are from the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, University of Ibadan and the Federal University of Technology Akure.

The HPC facility was donated in 2009 primarily for climate research.

History of HPC in FUTA

Specifications • The cluster is a ten-node SUNFIRE X4150.

• Each node consist of 2-Quad core thereby having 80 cores in all.

• The storage is approximately 5TB in all the ten nodes combined (grossly inadequate).

• The system is running on Community Enterprise OS (CENTOS) operating system

• Connectivity via ethernet port of 100/1000 Mbps.

• Libraries: MPI, netcdf• RegCM4 and WRF

Dearth of Qualified personnel to man the system.

Power problem.Storage space.

Challenges

The HPC facility in the Federal University of Technology Akure is initially for research and teaching of Meteorological forecasting and climate change.

With the proposed expansion in 2014, the following department is expected to use the facility. Computer science Biochemistry Mathematics Engineering Physics etc

Use

1. There is new acquisition of a 12-node clustered system by WASCAL GRP-WACS. The new system is in the process of shipping to Nigeria for Installation and deployment.

2. United National Development Program (UNDP) through the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Environment is donating another HPC system. This HPC is expected in the first quarter of 2014.

Future expansion

The HPC use in FUTA is at present at minimal use, only for teaching of postgraduate students.

The training in setting-up and management of HPC and expected expansion would enable us to start using HPC at operational level by January 2014.

Other field in the University is expected to start using the University HPC for interdisciplinary study.

Conclusion

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