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Tuesday 17th December 2019

Support over the Festive Period
Festive extended weekend queue
Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-16 (Tier-1)
HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme
Training : Upcoming ARCHER Training Opportunities

Support over the Festive Period

The Helpdesk and ARCHER support service will be available throughout the festive period as usual between 8:30 and 18:00 each working day except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day (25, 26 December) and New Years Day (1 January).

Extended weekend queue over the Festive Period

We are pleased to announce that the weekend queue will be in operation for the whole of the festive period, from 18:00 Friday 20th December until 06:00 on Monday 6 January. Jobs queued but not run during the weekend queue open hours will remain in the queue, and will be eligible to be run during a subsequent weekend. Full details of weekend queue can be found at http://www.archer.ac.uk/documentation/user-guide/batch.php#sec-5.12

Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-16 (Tier-1)

http://www.prace-ri.eu/deci-16-call

The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning 1 June 2020.

Resources are available on the following architectures: HP Cray XC40/Shasta, Intel and AMD clusters (various processor and memory configurations) and hybrid systems (clusters with GPGPU accelerators or Xeon Phi Co-processors (KNC)) made available from Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK.

For this call additional resources are available from the Fenix Research Infrastructure, funded by the European ICEI project (https://fenix-ri.eu/). Applicants need not specify a particular machine or architecture, but if they do, we will endeavour to take these preferences into account.

Opening date: 16 December 2019, 12:00 UTC
Closing date: 31 January 2020, 17:00 UTC
Anticipated allocation decisions: May 2020
Allocation start: 1 June 2020
Allocation period: 1 year for Project Access
Type of access: DECI (Tier-1)

Please see the above link for more information, or email deci-support@prace-ri.eu with any enquiries.

HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme

Collaborative research visits using High Performance Computing

Call for applications: next closing date 20th February 2020

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/AssociatedStates 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 February 2020. 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/

Upcoming Training Opportunities

Registration open now

Hands-on Introduction to HPC, EPCC, Edinburgh, 7-8 January 2020
Using non-volatile Memory, Online, 15 + 22 January 2020
Advanced MPI, Imperial College London, 27-28 January 2020
Cray Compilation Environment Update and modern Fortran, Online webinar, 29 January 2020 15:00
Reproducible computational environments using containers, Durham, 3 February 2020

Full details and registration at http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/index.php

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