Andy Turner's blog
Benchmarking the Oracle bare metal cloud for DiRAC HPC workloads
Author: Andy TurnerPosted: 13 Jun 2020 | 08:45
A public UK HPC knowledge base
Author: Andy TurnerPosted: 11 Nov 2019 | 08:49
In this blog post I consider how we (as the UK HPC community) could create a community HPC technical knowledge base that would allow us to share and reuse useful technical information. Much of these thoughts came out of discussions at the HPC Champions meeting that took place on 16 September 2019 alongside the UK RSE Conference 2019 in Birmingham, UK along with subsequent discussions at the monthly HPC RSE calls.
HPC-UK: a new resource for UK researchers
Author: Andy TurnerPosted: 18 Dec 2017 | 15:45
HPC-UK is a community resource that brings together information to support researchers using HPC, and the people (such as research software engineers) who support those researchers. It provides a coherent view of what is available, how to access it, where to get training, and how to get the most out of HPC applications.
Cirrus transformed into Tier-2 system
Author: Andy TurnerPosted: 19 Jun 2017 | 15:35
EPCC has received £2.4m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part its £20m investment in six new Tier-2 HPC centres.
ARCHER: the next national HPC service for academic research
Author: Andy TurnerPosted: 29 Nov 2013 | 11:00
ARCHER (Advanced Research Computing High End Resource) is the next national HPC service for academic research. The service comprises a number of components: accommodation provided by the University of Edinburgh; hardware by Cray; systems support by EPCC and Daresbury Laboratory; and user and computational science and engineering support by EPCC.
Simulation code usage on HECToR
Author: Andy TurnerPosted: 24 May 2013 | 16:00
What sort of research is the HECToR supercomputing facility used for and what simulation software does it make use of?
EPCC measures the use of different simulation codes used on the HECToR facility to get an idea of which codes are used most and what size of jobs different code are used for. In this post I will take a look at which codes are used most on the facility and speculate whether we can infer anything from the patterns we see.