The Computational Shared Facility (CSF), the University's flagship central high performance computing facility, has been in service since February 2011. It is a successful, popular and heavily utilised system enabling PGRs and research staff across the University, to harness the power of computational resources for the benefit their research activities.

In November 2018 the system underwent an upgrade which created "CSF3", the third generation of the system. We are proud to say that since then it has run over 1 million jobs, using more than 5700 CPU years of compute - the equivalent of running a single CPU core continuously for 5700 years!

Every year the CSF is expanded to include the latest Intel CPUs, and to increase other resources such as GPUs and high memory nodes. In eight years of service approximately £5 million has been invested by research groups.

The CSF has hundreds of research applications installed and supported, a large temporary filesystem, and additional storage can be provided via the Research Data Storage service. A dedicated friendly team of people manage the system and support and train the user community.

Could your research benefit from access to the CSF? Would you like to add funds? Are you interested in finding out more about the service? If so please see our CSF documentation website or contact the CSF team for a chat.