This portal was setup in 2007 to help build the scientific and industrial computing community in South Africa - this includes people doing billing systems for telcos, financial computing, film industry, ... just about anything that relies on computationally intensive computing, engineering skills or software development for industrial strength applications. We were originally mainly focussed on High Performance and cluster computing - but it seems that this focus was too narrow, and now we look at broader industrial computing.

The editors are independent and the web site is not for profit or to promote a specific company or technology.

We want to encourage the exchange of intelligent and relevant views on computing in the real world, through bringing news to the attention of the community, commenting on developments, publishing technical articles and just generally interacting.

This portal is unashamedly techy, and hopes to encourage the interaction of IT-professionals and scientists. If you would like to talk policy, politics, personal or tech flame-wars, we reserve the right to relegate you to a back page.

Before you ask: we are avid users of open source and love it. However we also use proprietary software. This portal is driven by Drupal.

This is not intended to be a random blog, where untested theories are touted. Nor is it intended to be an academic journal. We would like to think that users will produce quantified metrics and verifiable opinions. Please register and contribute. We value your privacy and endeavour to provide you with useful information filtered by the community in a non-intrusive way.

Please contact us at info at compute dot org dot za

Privacy

We will not sell or publish your private information. The information you publish here can be Private (available only to Registered Users) or Public (accessible to web crawlers) - however you should always assume that your posts can be forwarded to non-registered users.

Old mission

This community portal provides news, views and reviews for people managing, developing, setting up or running their own computationally intensive hardware, software or systems. We provide information for people seeking to develop industrial strength solutions, such as in the telecommunications, oil & gas exploration, petrochemical, astronomy, medical / biochemical modelling, etc.