ARCHER News

Tuesday 7th April 2020

• ARCHER Service desk over Easter weekend
• Best Practices for Online Training - Webinar
• Other upcoming ARCHER training
• HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme
• First ARCHER2 eCSE call deferred

ARCHER Service desk over Easter weekend

The ARCHER service desk is not manned on
Friday 10th April
or
Monday 13 April

ARCHER will continue to be available as normal.

Service desk will resume on Tuesday morning.

Best Practices for Online Training - Webinar

Wednesday 8th April 2020 15:00 BST

EPCC has had substantial experience of delivering online training over several years. This includes HPC training for the ARCHER service, assessed courses for Edinburgh University’s online MSc programmes, and a large-scale introductory MOOC for the PRACE project.

In this interactive webinar we will discuss our experiences of delivering online training, including methods for supporting remote practical exercises and ways to keep students engaged. The format will be a set of four short talks from EPCC trainers, each followed by a Q&A session.

With face-to-face delivery simply not an option at present, and with the training programme for the ARCHER2 service due to start soon, we thought it was an ideal opportunity to share and discuss best practices for online training with the UK HPC community.

This online session is open to all. It will use the Blackboard Collaborate platform.

Full details and join link https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/courses/200408-online-training/

Other upcoming ARCHER2 Training

• ARCHER2 Overview of service, Online, Wednesday 15th April 2020 15:00 BST
• ARCHER2 Hardware, Online, Wednesday 22nd April 2020 11:00 BST
• Oracle Cloud HPC benchmarking results, Online, Wednesday 29th April 2020 11:00 BST
• The determination of clusters structures combining infrared spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations, Online, Wednesday 20th May 2020 15:00 BST

Further details https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme

Collaborative research visits using High Performance Computing

Call for applications: next closing date 14th May 2020, for visits during the second half of 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 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.

Coronavirus travel restrictions: Applicants will be notified of the selection panel’s decisions around the end of June. We hope that the travel situation should be returning to normal by this time. Visits should be planned for July to December, but there can be some flexibility if there are continuing restrictions on travel at that stage.

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 may be 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 14th May 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/
Follow us on Twitter for project news: https://twitter.com/HPCEuropa3

First ARCHER2 eCSE call deferred

Together with UKRI we have agreed to delay the first eCSE call to match better with the updated ARCHER2 hardware timetable.

We are pleased to announce that the first ARCHER2 eCSE call will open on 19th May 2020. The deadline for submitting documents for technical evaluations is 16th June 2020, with the final deadline for proposal submission being 7th July 2020.