ARCHER News
Tuesday 18th February 2020
- ARCHER Annual User Survey 2019
- HPC Champions
- Planned ARCHER maintenace
- HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme
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.
Planned ARCHER maintenace
There will be a full maintenance outage for ARCHER next month as follows:
- Tuesday 3rd March 16:00 ARCHER and the RDF will be shutdown
- Thursday 5th March 18:00 ARCHER and the RDF will be returned to service. We will return to service earlier if possible.
The outage is required for power works to accommodate future services.
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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