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ARCHER, the UK National Supercomputing Service Offers a Capability Resource for Running Very Large Parallel Jobs Compiled from websites: ARCHER, the UK national supercomputing service offers a capability resource for running very large parallel jobs. Based around a 118,080 core Cray XC system, the service includes a helpdesk staffed by HPC experts from EPCC with support from Cray Inc. Access is free at point of use for academic researchers working in the EPSRC and NERC domains. Users can also purchase access at a variety of rates. Industry access is available. Cirrus at EPCC is one of the EPSRC Tier-2 HPC facilities. The main resource is a 10,080 core SGI/HPE ICE XA system. Free access is available to academic researchers working in the EPSRC domain and from some UK universities; academic users from other domains and institutions can purchase access. Industry access is available. Isambard at GW4 is one of the EPSRC Tier-2 HPC facilities. Isambard provides multiple advanced architectures within the same system in order to enable evaluation and comparison across a diverse range of hardware platforms. Free access is available to academic researchers working in the EPSRC domain and from some UK universities; academic users from other domains and institutions can purchase access. Industry access is available. Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery (CSD3) is one of the EPSRC Tier-2 HPC facilities. CSD3 is a multi-institution service underpinned by an innovative, petascale, data-centric HPC platform, designed specifically to drive data-intensive simulation and high-performance data analysis. Free access is available to academic researchers working in the EPSRC domain and from some UK universities; academic users from other domains and institutions can purchase access. Industry access is available. Athena at HPC Midlands+ is one of the EPSRC Tier-2 HPC facilities. The main resource is a 14,336 core Huawei X6000 system supplied by Cluservision. The service also includes 5 POWER8 compute nodes with large amounts of RAM to support high performance data analysis. Free access is available to academic researchers working in the EPSRC domain and from some UK universities; academic users from other domains and institutions can purchase access. Industry access is available. JADE (Joint Academic Data science Endeavour) is one of the EPSRC Tier-2 HPC facilities. The system design exploits the capabilities of NVIDIA's DGX-1 Deep Learning System which has eight of its newest Tesla P100 GPUs tightly coupled by its high-speed NVlink interconnect. The DGX-1 runs optimized versions of many standard machine learning software packages such as Caffe, TensorFlow, Theano and Torch. Free access is available to academic researchers working in the EPSRC domain and from some UK universities; academic users from other domains and institutions can purchase access. Industry access is available. MMM Hub (Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub) The theory and simulation of materials is one of the most thriving and vibrant areas of modern scientific research today. Designed specifically for the materials and molecular modelling community, this Tier 2 supercomputing facility is available to HPC users all over the UK. The MMM Hub was established in 2016 with a £4m EPSRC grant awarded to collaborators The Thomas Young Centre (TYC), and the Science and Engineering South Consortium (SES). The MMM Hub is led by University College London on behalf of the eight collaborative partners who sit within the TYC and SES: Imperial, King’s, QMUL, Oxford, Southampton, Kent, Belfast and Cambridge. The new £3.25m N8 Centre of Excellence for High Performance Computing (N8 HPC) provides a full service from this month. The centre is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and will provide a shared facility for high performance computing for the N8 Research Partnership universities of Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York. On a scale which previously was not readily available to the N8 universities, the facility provides researchers with access to a high performance computing facility, shared on an equal basis. Since it was set up in June 2012, the N8 HPC has been piloting 16 projects – 2 from each of the N8 partners – to help test the centre and prepare it for full service. Based at the University of Leeds, and run jointly with the University of Manchester, N8 HPC will provide a major boost to world-class research in all of the N8 universities, enabling researchers to build more realistic computational models and undertake more complex analyses in fields as diverse as healthcare, sustainable energy and aerospace. The shared facility will make it easier for institutions to collaborate on research and will create opportunities to engage more effectively with business and the community. ARCHIE-WeSt operates in partnership with the Universities of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, West of Scotland and Stirling. The centre was established in March 2012 by a £1.6M award from the EPSRC e-Infrastructure fund to establish a regional centre of excellence in High Performance Computing. The aim of the centre is to provide High Performance Computing capability for Academia, Industry and Enterprise in the West of Scotland. Archie comprises of over 2500 INTEL Skylake 6138 cores for distributed parallel computing, two 3TB RAM large memory nodes and 210TB of high performance GPFS storage. HPC Midlands and MidPlus (The MidPlus consortium/service was superseded in March 2017 by HPC Midlands Plus). The centre for innovation HPC (part of Science and Engineering South Consortium) A 3.7million regional centre for supercomputing, following an award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The funding, awarded following a successful collaborative bid with the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and Southampton, will be used to institute and operate a Centre of Innovation for the application of High Performance Computing (HPC) methods and technologies. The £3.7m grant marks the first significant activity for the e-Infrastructure South Consortium formed by the four universities in 2011. The Consortium aims to explore and exploit opportunities for the sharing of research e-infrastructure (hardware platforms, applications software, user support services and skills) across the four institutions. In addition to sharing resources, it is hoped that the combination of these research intensive institutions will foster an environment of collaboration, where computationally enabled research projects can be co-developed and delivered. As such, the EPSRC award marks the first step on a much more ambitious journey for the e-Infrastructure South Consortium. .
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