ARCHER News

Wednesday 2nd December 2020

• HPC Champions, Online, Tuesday 15 December 2020 13:00-17:00
• ARCHER2 Image and Video competition 2020 results
• Introduction to ARCHER2 courses
• Other upcoming ARCHER training

HPC Champions

Tuesday 15 December 2020 13:00-17:00

The next HPC Champions meeting will be held virtually on the afternoon of the 15th December 2020, and will involve talks and discussion sessions. We will have presentations on the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations, experiences with the new Arm A64FX Isambard 2 system in Bristol and introductions to the two newest UK national Tier 2 HPC systems. This will be followed by discussions on topics chosen by the attendees. The workshop will run between 1pm and 5pm GMT. If you have an idea for a discussion topic then please get in touch with the organiser: (Andy Turner).

HPC Champions is a network of individuals with the goal of supporting HPC users in the UK to learn about HPC, find the most appropriate system for their purposes, and to get the most out of that system. The roughly bi-annual HPC Champions workshops play a key part in this, increasing the coordination between the different tiers of HPC in the UK and acting as a launching point for collaboration on projects related to training, outreach, reference materials and more.

The network includes a wide number of HPC communities including RSEs and system administrators from the local, regional and national supercomputing centres, as well representatives of HPC consortia, and we encourage anyone with an interest in supporting researchers and RSEs to make the best possible use of the HPC resources to attend. HPC Champions has been co-located with both the RSE Conference and HPC-SIG in the past, and this time is partnered with the ARCHER2 UK national supercomputing service.

If you have any questions, please contact the organiser: Andy Turner (a.turner@epcc.ed.ac.uk).

Full details and registration : https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/courses/201215-champions/

ARCHER2 Image and Video competition 2020 results

Thank you to everyone who submitted images and videos to this year’s competition.

We are pleased to announce the winners as follows:

• Winning Early Career Researcher entry: Xizhuo Jiang, University College London, Department of Mechanical Engineering with their image “Endothelial glycocalyx – defender of blood vessel walls”.
• Winning Video: Fraser Goldsworth, University of Oxford, AOPP with their video “Symmetric instability in a cross-equatorial western boundary current”.
• Winning Image and Overall Winner: Nitin Shukla, Instituto Superior Technico with their image “Particles surf on plasma waves excited by high-power lasers”

Introduction to ARCHER2 courses

ARCHER2 for software package users

This one-day course provides an introduction to using ARCHER2 for user who have already used other HPC systems and want to use pre-installed simulation/modelling packages rather than compiling their own.

We have places available on upcoming runs of this course, on 7th or 10th December, or 12 January 2021

Full details and registration https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

ARCHER2 for Software Developers

This two day course provides an introduction to using ARCHER2 for user who have already used other HPC systems and want to compile (and possibly) develop HPC software on ARCHER2.

We have places available on this course running on 14-15th December, or on 14 - 15 January 2021

Full details and registration https://www.archer2.ac.uk/training/#upcoming-training

Other upcoming ARCHER2 Training

• ARCHER2 for software package users, Online, 7 December 2020 10:00 - 16:00 GMT
• ARCHER2 for software package users, Online, 10 December 2020 10:00 - 16:00 GMT
• Introduction to ARCHER2 for software developers, Online, 14 - 15 December 2020 10:00 - 16:00 GMT
• HPC Champions, Online, Tuesday 15 December 2020 13:00-17:00
• ARCHER2 for software package users, Online, 12 January 2021 10:00 - 16:00
• Introduction to ARCHER2 for software developers Online 14 - 15 January 2021 10:00 - 16:00
• Software Carpentry, Online, 18 - 21 January 2021 10:00 - 13:00
• Understanding Package Performance, Online, 25th January 2021 10:00 - 16:00
• Performance Optimisation on AMD EPYC, Online, 28 - 29 January 2021 9:30-17:30, 9:30-16:00

We encourage you to sign up for these courses now as registration may be closed prior to the Christmas break

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