Thomas Chauke a senior Computer Science student has developed a cool new online market place where students can sell all their used books, fridges and all sorts of items they no longer need called Uni-trade(https://uni-trade.co.za) which will be helping thousands of peers beat the expensive ordeal that comes with buying textbooks or the essentials of […]
The Student Cluster Competition starts in July every year. University students from various universities around the country are trained on Linux systems, as well as high-performance computing. Their training concludes with an assignment that requires each team to build a prototype cluster on the cloud. The teams selected from this round go on to compete […]
The Department of Computer Science held our annual student awards ceremony on Monday, 14th October 2019. The ceremony is held in celebration and recognition of the top-performing undergraduate Computer Science students at first, second and third-year levels. The following students were the top-performers: First Year Second Year Third Year At this year’s award ceremony we […]
In a world where computing power and computer skills are becoming ever more important, South Africa continues to punch above its weight – as University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Stellenbosch University (SU) students showed when they led Team South Africa to second prize in the prestigious International Supercomputing Competition in Frankfurt, Germany this month. […]
For the third year in a row, UWC students are competing in the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) Student Cluster Challenge, a competition providing South African undergraduate students exposure to an industry that’s increasingly crucial to researchers in fields as disparate as astrophysics, molecular biology and even history. The 2015 SCC, being held at […]