ARCHER News
Tuesday 11th February 2020
- ARCHER Annual User Survey 2019
- HPC Champions
- EIS-2 - A general purpose, high performance input deck and maths parser
- HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme
- Training : Upcoming ARCHER Training Opportunities
ARCHER Annual User Survey 2019
We are committed to continually improving the ARCHER Service and would like to request your input to help us understand what is important to you, where the Service is working well and where there is scope for improvement.
The ARCHER Annual User Survey consists of just 9 questions and should take only a few minutes of your time to complete. There are opportunities to add more detailed comments if you wish.
For each survey response received, we will donate £1 to Save The Children.
We are also offering 5 prizes of 3000 kAU on ARCHER for users who complete the survey. Winners can choose to forgo the kAU prize and for each winner that does this we will donate a further £20 to Save The Children. Winners will be drawn at random from all respondents who have left contact details after the closing date of Tuesday 31 March 2020 and the winners notified by e-mail. The prizes are only available to people with existing ARCHER user accounts.
You can find the survey at:
Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this survey. The responses will be used to try and improve the service for you and to help identify key areas for service development.
HPC Champions
The next meeting of the HPC Champions will be collocated with HPC-SIG in Bath on Wednesday 26th February.
Please register now at to attend the event
Items will include the new and existing Tier2 sites, ARCHER2 and discussion based around a UK wide HPC knowledge base.
Further details will be available on the ARCHER wesbite at: https://www.archer.ac.uk/community/champions/
as it becomes availble.
EIS-2 - A general purpose, high performance input deck and maths parser
Webinar, Wednesday 12th February 15:00
Christopher Brady, University of Warwick The EPOCH Input System Version 2 (EIS-2), available from https://github.com/csbrady-warwick/EIS-2 is a publicly available Fortran "input deck" reader and maths parser well suited to high performance computing. It was developed under an ARCHER eCSE grant as a more general, higher performance replacement for the existing deck reader and maths parser in the EPOCH particle in cell code developed by CCP-Plasma. As development was advancing it became clear that the code for EIS-2 was general enough that it would be useful as a stand-alone library so we added some user documentation and some additional features to expand the code beyond what was needed for EPOCH and released it. EIS-2 is a static library that allows codes to give a user extensive control over how the code runs through standard hierarchical block based input files and also allows a user to specify expressions through normal infix mathematical expressions. Released under the BSD three clause license, being written in standards conforming Fortran 2003 and having no library dependencies it can be incorporated into both open and closed source code bases. This webinar will cover the basic design of EIS-2, covering the lexer, the parser and the AST based simplifier for the maths parser and a quick overview of the deck parser. It will cover simple examples of making use of EIS-2 and how to incorporate it into existing code. It will give a brief overview of possible future work on EIS-2, including C interoperability allowing C and C++ codes to use EIS-2, extending the AST simplifier to optionally work with LLVM to provide near native code performance and using the information contained in the deck file structure to provide automatic interfaces to a code from supported scripting languages.
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/
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Upcoming Training Opportunities
- EIS-2 - A general purpose, high performance input deck and maths parser, Online, Wednesday 12 February 2020 15:00
Full details and registration at http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/index.php
