ARCHER News

Wednesday 10th June 2020

• ARCHER2 ExCALIBUR Webinar - today
• HPC Carpentry course
• ARCHER2 Embedded CSE (eCSE) call
• Other upcoming ARCHER training

ARCHER2 ExCALIBUR Webinar: an algorithmic approach to exascale design

Wednesday 10th June 2020 11:00 - 12:00 BST

Richard Gunn and Jeremy Yates

Abstract: The ExCALIBUR (Exascale Computing Algorithms and Infrastructures Benefitting UK Research) is a £45.7m Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) programme led by the Met Office, UKAEA and UK Research and Innovation to deliver research and innovative algorithmic development to harness the power of exascale HPC. ExCALIBUR will be delivered over five years through a suite of complementary activities delivered by UK Research and Innovation, the Met Office and UKAEA: a knowledge integration activity; activities to address high priority use cases; supporting emerging requirements for high-performance algorithms; cross-cutting research; and proof-of-concept hardware –(the Hardware and Enabling Software Programme).

This online session is open to all.

Join link and full details : https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/courses/200610-excalibur/

HPC Carpentry

David Henty (EPCC), Juan Herrera (EPCC)

29 - 30 June 2020

This course introduces accessing remote advanced computing facilities via the command line and High Performance Computing (HPC). After completing this course, participants will:

• Understand motivations for using HPC in research.
• Understand how HPC systems are put together to achieve performance and how they differ from desktops/laptops.
• Know how to connect to remote HPC systems and transfer data.
• Be able to use the Bash command line on remote systems.
• Know how to use a scheduler to work on a shared system.
• Be able to use software modules to access different HPC software.
• Be able to work effectively on a remote shared resource.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this workshop.

Full details and registration link : https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/courses/200629-hpc-carpentry/

ARCHER2 Embedded CSE (eCSE) call

We are very pleased to announce that the 1st ARCHER2 eCSE call (ARCHER2 eCSE01) is now open for proposals. The deadline for submitting documents for technical evaluations is 16 June 2020, with the final deadline for proposal submission being 7 July 2020.

Embedded CSE (eCSE) support provides funding to the ARCHER2 user community to develop software in a sustainable manner, to run on the ARCHER2 system. For this call, only software which results in research which is within the remit of EPSRC is eligible and funding for this call does not include software within the remit of NERC

More details of how to apply are available by following the link to the eCSE calls page from here

together with details of the application and review process, assessment criteria eligibility, etc. Please note that the process for applying for an eCSE project under ARCHER2 has been updated since ARCHER eCSE programme. More details available via the above link.

The 1st ARCHER2 eCSE call (eCSE001) opened on:19 May 2020

Deadline for submitting documents for technical evaluation: 16:00 BST on Tuesday 16 June 2020

Deadline for final submission: 16:00 BST on Tuesday 7 July 2020

Other upcoming ARCHER2 Training

• ExCALIBUR - an algorithmic approach to exascale design, webinar, Online, Wednesday 10th June 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 BST
• Software Packages in HPC with Spack and EasyBuild webinar, Online, Wednesday 17th June 2020 15:00 - 16:00 BST
• HPC Carpentry, Online, 29 - 30 June 2020

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