ARCHER News
Wednesday 16th December 2020
- End of ARCHER Service
- ARCHER2 courses in the New Year
- Weekend queue over the Festive Period
- Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-17 (Tier-1) and EUDAT services and resources for data management
- ARCHER2 Embedded CSE (eCSE) call
- ARCHER Service desk closure over Christmas break
- Other upcoming ARCHER training
End of ARCHER Service
- ARCHER will NOT be switched off BEFORE 27th January
- UKRI continue to give the commitment that 14 days notice will be provided to users before ARCHER is switched off
- The date that ARCHER will be switched off will be confirmed in the new year but as stated above, the earliest this will happen is 27th January and at least 14 days notice will be given to users.
ARCHER2 courses in the New Year
We encourage you to sign up for these courses now as registration may be closed prior to the Christmas break
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.
12 January 2021 10:00 - 16:00
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.
14 - 15 January 2021 10:00 - 16:00
Software Carpentry
This course, taught over four morning sessions, helps scientists and engineers become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing, and task automation.
18 - 21 January 2021 10:00 - 13:00
Understanding Package Performance
This course focuses on efficient use of centrally installed packages. It will take a holistic approach and cover tools and techniques to help researchers to improve their overall scientific productivity on large-scale HPC systems.
25th January 2021 10:00 - 16:00
Performance Optimisation on AMD EPYC
This course covers techniques for improving the performance of parallel applications by optimising of the code that runs within each node. We will cover techniques for efficient programming, using batch processing options and compiler options as well as hand tuning of code. The course will also contain an introduction to the use of Cray performance analysis tools.
28 - 29 January 2021 9:30-17:30, 9:30-16:00
Weekend queue over the Festive Period
We are pleased to announce that the weekend queue will be in operation for the whole of the festive period, from 12:00 Saturday 19th December until 12:00 on Monday 4th January.
Jobs submitted to the queue but not run during the festive weekend queue open hours will remain in the queue at the end of the festive period, and will be eligible to be run during a subsequent weekend in January.
Full details of weekend queue can be found at http://www.archer.ac.uk/documentation/user-guide/batch.php#sec-5.12
Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-17 (Tier-1) and EUDAT services and resources for data management
https://prace-ri.eu/call/call-for-proposals-for-deci-17
The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning 1 June 2021. For this call additional resources and services are available from EUDAT for data management.
Applicants need not specify a particular machine or architecture, but if they do, we will endeavour to take these preferences into account.
- Opening date: 16 December 2020, 12:00 UTC
- Closing date: 31 January 2021, 17:00 UTC
- Anticipated allocation decisions: May 2021
- Allocation start: 1 June 2021
- Allocation period: 1 year for Project Access
- Type of access: DECI (Tier-1)
Please see the above link for more information, or email deci-support@prace-ri.eu with any enquiries.
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
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
Other upcoming ARCHER2 Training
- 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
