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ARCHER2 Weekly Newsletter

By ARCHER2 Service on December 10, 2025

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ARCHER2 Calendar 2026

As in previous years, we have produced a printed calendar featuring some of the images from the competition – you are most warmly invited to sign up to receive a copy, and these will be posted out in time for the new year.

Sign up here

ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026

We are pleased to announce that ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026 will take place on the 19th - 20th March 2026 in Edinburgh at South Hall, The University of Edinburgh.

Please register here to participate. The event is in-person and there is no registration fee.

What to expect at ARCHER2 Celebration of Science

ARCHER2 Celebration of Science is annual event that brings together the ARCHER2 user community to celebrate their scientific achievements on ARCHER2. You can explore the highlights of previous events here and view the science showcased in the previous years.

The two-day programme of ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026 will include:

  • Invited talks: a variety of talks from the invited speakers highlighting their impactful research using ARCHER2.
  • Poster programme: a platform for the ARCHER2 community to present and discuss their successes delivered on ARCHER2 through the lightning talks and the poster session. A Best Poster Prize will be awarded. - Call for Posters is now open!
  • Keynote: the keynote will be given by Professor Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC.
  • Panel Session: focuses on key topics for the ARCHER2 and UK research community.
  • ARCHER2 User Forum: learn about the latest service updates and engage directly with the ARCHER2 team.
  • Diversity Session: an interactive session to discuss the equality, diversity and inclusion challenges related to the delivery of HPC services.

Registration, and Call for posters are open now. Full details here

JAX for scientific computing

Free webinar, Wednesday 17th December 2025 15:00 - 16:00

JAX is an open-source Python package for high-performance numerical computing. It provides a familiar NumPy style interface but with the advantages of allowing computations to be dispatched to accelerator devices such as graphics and tensor processing units, and supporting transformations to automatically differentiate, vectorize and just-in-time compile functions. While extensively used in machine learning applications, JAX’s design also makes it ideal for scientific computing tasks such as simulating numerical models and fitting them to data.

This webinar will introduce JAX’s interface, its computation model and functional transforms, and illustrate how it can be used in an example task of fitting the parameters of a numerical model given data. The webinar will also demonstrate how the Array API can be used to write portable code which works across JAX, NumPy and other array backends.

More details and join link

NFCS Network Plus project, UKRI research data landscape survey

The National Federation of Compute Services (NFCS) is exploring the benefits that establishing a federation of national, regional, and institutional computing resources within the UK could provide to researchers and service providers. Towards this end, we are seeking input from those who generate datasets through their research that they may make available through data publishing services, and also from those who run these services, as data is seen as an important component of these federations.

We would be grateful if you could complete the survey

You can fill this as a person who generates data and may make it available through a data publishing service, or as one of the people that runs such as a service, or, if you participate in both roles, as both. It should take around 15 minutes to fill in the survey per role.

We are hoping for as wide a participation in this survey as possible so please share this with your colleagues.

The survey closes on 31st March 2026. Thank you for your participation.

Poster Submissions for WHPC @ ISC 2026

Women in HPC (WHPC) are delighted to be continuing their official collaboration with the ISC High Performance conference with the WHPC Poster Series.

The WHPC poster series is dedicated to women and individuals from underrepresented groups who are students or are in the early stages of their HPC careers, typically within the first five years post-graduation or via a career transition into high performance computing.

Successful submissions to this session offer unique advantages:

  • Mentorship Support: You will receive guidance and support in polishing your poster and presentation.
  • Lightning Talk Opportunity: Showcase your work on stage during the Poster Pitch Session, gaining valuable exposure.
  • Best Women in HPC Poster Award: The Best Women in HPC Poster Award certificate will be given to the most outstanding poster selected by the WHPC posters committee.
  • Webinar showcasing WHPC Poster submissions: A virtual WHPC webinar will be held to showcase all submissions and allow all ISC submitters, both successful and unsuccessful, to practice lightning talk.
  • WHPC Travel Fellowships: Two travel grants, each worth £3,000 (approximately €3,500), are available to successful authors who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference.

Deadline: January 22nd, 2026.

For more details and to submit your poster

Registration and Submissions Now Open for the Durham HPC Days 2026

We are excited to announce the Durham HPC Days will return in 2026! This annual event brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners to explore the frontiers of high-performance computing, data analysis, and scientific innovation.

Make sure to check out our summary video and website from 2025’s event for inspiration - and submit your proposals for submissions today.!

  • Dates: 15th - 19th June 2026
  • Submission deadline: January 31st, 2026.
  • Event website

NetDRIVE PhD Summer School: Making positive environmental change in computational and data research practices within large scale compute and HPC

Applications are invited for a fully funded 5-day summer school aimed at PhD students interested in changing the way they use the digital research infrastructure (e.g. large scale compute and HPC) to work to enable a move towards Net Zero. The school will provide training and skills to help empower attendees to make real positive environmental change.

Further details

Recently added known issues

The “Known Issues” page of the ARCHER2 Documentation https://docs.archer2.ac.uk/known-issues/ lists all current open known issues including a description of the issue, its symptoms and any work-arounds.

No current issues

Upcoming ARCHER2 Training

Further details of upcoming training

We always welcome researchers wishing to present their work in a webinar - please contact the Service Desk if you would be interested in presenting your work.

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Recordings of past courses

Recordings of past virtual tutorials