Shahbaz Ahmad, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Chemistry, highlights how the recent hardware upgrade to the Computational Shared Facility (CSF) has significantly boosted his research efficiency and productivity. The enhanced computational power allows for significantly faster simulations, accelerating his work on homogeneous catalysis for converting nitrogen to ammonia and other valuable products.

Supercomputing Conference (SC), is an annual event that serves as a key platform for technological innovation in High Performance Computing bringing together scientists, engineers, and technologists to showcase advancements and achievements in the field. This year, Rob Haines, Director of Research IT, and George Leaver, Senior Systems Administrator, attended on behalf of Research IT. They attended workshops and tutorials and engaged with vendors, strengthening existing partnerships and exploring potential future collaborations.

Major upgrade to the University’s flagship High Performance Computing (HPC) service.

Our Application Support team have a wide variety of skills and experience available to researchers. Recently Oliver Woolland helped a researcher from the School of Chemistry to make the most of our GPU offering by running advanced, accelerated applications.

Are you a woman who uses HPC in her work and / or research? If so then join the N8 CIR Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) chapter!

Did you know that UGs and PGTs from the Faculty of Science and Engineering can use our HPC Platform for their projects?

We are pleased to announce a £800k investment for local HPC facilities this summer, both for research and for taught Postgraduate and final year Undergraduate project students, a first for the University.

Research Infrastructure Engineer Daniel Corbett helped researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science to successfully apply for time on ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service.

The Research IT Edge Compute and Satellite Storage service was launched in August, 2020. Find out how we have been helping the National Research Facility for Lab X-ray Computed Tomography to establish a networked computing and data storage facility

Find out how to contribute to the University's flagship HPC cluster and take advantage of the benefits that it brings.

All CSF3 users should now be using the new scratch file system and ready for the turn off of the old one on the 17th February 2021.

Bede, the N8’s new high performance computing platform, is now open for users from across N8.