ARCHER News
Wednesday 9th December 2020
- ARCHER2 Embedded CSE (eCSE) call
- HPC Champions, Online, Tuesday 15 December 2020 13:00-17:00
- ARCHER Service desk closure over Christmas break
- Introduction to ARCHER2 courses
- Other upcoming ARCHER training
ARCHER2 Embedded CSE (eCSE) call
We are very pleased to announce that the 3rd ARCHER2 eCSE call (ARCHER2 eCSE03) is now open for proposals. The deadline for submitting documents for technical evaluations is 26 January 2021, with the final deadline for proposal submission being 16 February 2021.
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 software which results in research which is within the remit of EPSRC or NERC is eligible.
More details of how to apply are available by following the link to the eCSE calls page from here
https://www.archer2.ac.uk/ecse/
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 the ARCHER eCSE programme. More details available via the above link.
The 3rd ARCHER2 eCSE call (eCSE03) opened on: 8 December 2020
Deadline for submitting documents for technical evaluation: 16:00 Tuesday 26 January 2021
Deadline for final submission: 16:00 Tuesday 16 February 2021
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/
ARCHER Service desk closure over Christmas break
Please note that the ARCHER Service Desk will be closed on the following dates:
- Friday 25th December
- Monday 28th December
- Friday 1st January
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 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, 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
