ARCHER Webinar : HPC Facilities for UK Researchers
Channel: ARCHER UK National Supercomputing Service
Date: 2018-03-08

Andy Turner, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
Over the past five years there has been a large investment in computational facilities from the UK research councils leading to an unprecedented level of choice for researchers wanting to use computational tools in their research. These include the UK National Supercomputing Service, ARCHER; the UK Research Data Facility; the EPSRC national Tier-2 HPC resources; and the DiRAC STFC national HPC service (as well as several other facilities). These resources provide exciting opportunities for new research but the wide range on offer can lead to confusion on what is available, how to get access to it and how to use it effectively. EPCC has been leading initiatives (including HPC-UK) to help researchers discover what is available, how to get access, and providing support and training to researchers. 
In this webinar I will give an overview of the facilities available and how to get access to them - particularly through the current open calls for access via the Resource Allocation Panel (RAP).