ARCHER News
Tuesday 15th October 2019
- LAMMPS workshop
- ARCHER Maintenance - Wednesday 16th October 09:00-17:00
- Tier 2 RAP Call
- ARCHER Image and Video Competition 2019 - Win up to £250 for your Image or Video - Last chance
- Free "Supercomputing" MOOC starting on 14th October 2019
- HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme
- Training : Upcoming ARCHER Training Opportunities
LAMMPS workshop
Wednesday afternoons, 16 and 23 October 2019
Julien Sindt, EPCC
LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) is a widely-used classical molecular dynamics (MD) code. This C++ code is easy to use, incredibly versatile, and parallelised to run efficiently on both small-scale personal computers and CPU/GPU/CPU&GPU HPC clusters. As of 2018, LAMMPS has been used, to some degree, in over 14,000 publications in fields as varied as chemistry, physics, material science, granular and lubricated-granular flow, etc.
The course will be run over two 2.5 hour-long sessions. The first session will be an introduction to setting up and running an MD simulation using LAMMPS. We will begin by running a simulation of a Lennard-Jones fluid before delving deeper into how simulations can be set up and run in LAMMPS. In the second session, we will discuss how to download and install LAMMPS, with a more in-depth discussion of the various packages LAMMPS offers and how to use them efficiently.
Full details and registration http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/index.php
ARCHER Maintenance - Wednesday 16th October 09:00-17:00
There will be a full outage of the ARCHER Service on Wednesday 16th October from 0900 – 1700.
This means that the login nodes and the compute nodes will be unavailable. The batch system will drain jobs ahead of the maintenance session.
We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this necessary planned maintenance.
Tier 2 RAP Call
EPSRC have opened the Tier 2 Open Access call.
The call is live and has a deadline for Technical Assessments of 17th October 2019 at 1600 and a closing deadline of 31st October 2019 at 1600 for applications.
The EPSRC call page can be found at: https://epsrc.ukri.org/funding/calls/rapopenaccesstier2autumn2019/
and further details are available on the Cirrus Access page: http://www.cirrus.ac.uk/access/
ARCHER Image and Video Competition 2019
The ARCHER Image and Video Competition opens today with your chance to win prizes of £150 for each of
- Best Image
- Best Video
- Best entry from an Early-career researcher
Plus a bonus prize of £100 for the best overall entry from the above three winners.
Show us how you demonstrate "ARCHER Enabling Research"
Full details and entry form at http://bit.ly/ARCHER-Image-Comp
Closing date extended: 15th October 2019
Free "Supercomputing" MOOC starting on 14th October 2019
www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing/.
Today's supercomputers are the most powerful calculating machines ever invented, capable of performing more than a thousand million million calculations every second. This gives scientists and engineers a powerful new tool to study the natural world - computer simulation.
This free 5-week online course will introduce you to what supercomputers are, how they are used and how we can exploit their full computational potential to make scientific breakthroughs. Register for the upcoming run on 14th October at www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing/.
The FutureLearn platform has a paid "Upgrade" option that gives you access to the material for an extended period and the ability to obtain a Certificate of Achievement based on online tests. However, all other parts of the MOOC can be accessed for free during its run.
This course was developed by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh and by SURFsara as part of the EC-funded PRACE project.
HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme
Collaborative research visits using High Performance Computing
Call for applications: next closing date 20th November 2019
HPC-Europa3 funds research visits for computational scientists in any discipline which can use High Performance Computing (HPC).
Visits can be made to research institutes in Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden or the UK.
UK-based researchers can benefit in two ways: either by visiting a research group elsewhere in Europe, or by hosting a research visitor from another country.
What does HPC-Europa3 provide?
- Funding for travel, living and accommodation expenses for visits of up to 13 weeks.
- Access to world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities.
- Technical support to help you make best use of the HPC systems.
- Collaborative environment with an expert in your field of research.
Who can apply?
- Researchers of all levels, from postgraduate to full professors.
- Researchers from academia or industry.
- Researchers currently working in a European Union country or Associated State (see http://bit.ly/2PkVsSV for full list of Associated States).
- Researchers may not visit a group in the country where they currently work.
- A small number of places are available for researchers working outside these countries - please contact staff@hpc-europa.org for more information.
How do I apply?
Apply online at http://www.hpc-europa.org
The next closing date is 20th November 2019. Closing dates are held 4 times per year. Applications can be submitted at any time. You should receive a decision approximately 6 weeks after the closing date.
For more information and to apply online, visit: http://www.hpc-europa.org/
Follow us on Twitter for project news: https://twitter.com/HPCEuropa3
Upcoming Training Opportunities
Registration open now
- LAMMPS workshop, Online, 16 and 23 October 2019
- Hands-on Introduction to HPC for Life Scientists, Birmingham, 30 Oct - 1 Nov 2019
- Free "Supercomputing" MOOC starting on 14th October 2019
- Enabling multi-node MPI parallelisation of the LISFLOOD flood inundation model, Online webinar, 6 November 2019 15:00
- A Fully Lagrangian Dynamical Core for the Met Office/NERC Cloud Model, Online webinar, 13th November 2019 15:00
- Shared-memory Programming with OpenMP - Online course, four Wednesday afternoons, 13, 20, 27 November and 4 December 2019
- Scientific Programming with Python, Queen's University Belfast, 16-17 December 2019
Registration opening soon
- HPC Carpentry, EPCC, Edinburgh, 9 - 10 December 2019
Full details and registration at http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/index.php
