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ARCHER2 Weekly Newsletter

By ARCHER2 Service on December 20, 2023

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ARCHER2 Festive Period

The ARCHER2 Service will observe the UK Public holidays and will be closed for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

We fully expect the ARCHER2 service to be available during these holidays but we will not have staff on the Service Desk to deal with any queries or issues you may experience. Users will be able to connect to the system and submit jobs as usual. The Service Desk will be open as usual on all other workdays (Monday - Friday from 0800-1800) excluding these holidays.

Key Dates:

  • Monday 25th December - ARCHER2 Service Desk Closed
  • Tuesday 26th December - ARCHER2 Service Desk Closed
  • Monday 1st January - ARCHER2 Service Desk Closed

As always please contact support@archer2.ac.uk if you have any questions or problems and please check the ARCHER2 Status page for updates

We wish everyone in the ARCHER2 community a wonderful festive season.

GPU software development eCSE calls coming soon!

We are very excited to announce that we will soon be opening a new programme of eCSE calls focussing on GPU software development to enable the UK research community to exploit new HPC and AI architectures. Full details will be released in early 2024.

  • Call to open early 2024
  • Will support GPU software development to support research in any UKRI research council funding area
  • Maximum project duration of 24 months
  • Maximum funded effort per project of 36 person months

ARCHER2 Celebration of Science

We are pleased to announce that the ARCHER2 Celebration of Science will take place on the 7th – 8th March 2024 in Edinburgh at South Hall, The University of Edinburgh.

The event will provide ARCHER2 users with the opportunity to showcase their science achievements on ARCHER2. The two-day programme will include a variety of talks from members of the ARCHER2 research consortia and other invited presenters involved in the ARCHER2 service, a poster session and a panel session focusing on preparing the UK science community for future Exascale systems. All attendees are welcome to join the drink reception on the evening of the first day.

The event is in-person and there is no registration fee.

Full details and registration

ARCHER2 Calendar 2024 - sign up for your copy

Sign up for your copy of the ARCHER2 Calendar 2024 and it will be posted straight to your desk.

ARCHER2 User Survey 2023

We are committed to continually improving the ARCHER2 Service and would like to request your input to help us understand what is important to you, where the Service is working well and where there is scope for improvement.

The ARCHER2 Annual User Survey consists of just a few questions and should take only a few minutes of your time to complete. There are opportunities to add more detailed comments if you wish.

For each survey response received, we will donate £1 to Save The Children.
Additionally, if you enter your ARCHER2 username in the final question, then you will be entered into the prize draw to win one of five £50 Amazon vouchers.

Complete the survey

Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this survey. The responses will be used to try and improve the service for you and to help identify key areas for service development.

Advanced use of LAMMPS

Online, 17 January 2024 09:30 - 16:30 GMT

This lesson provides an overview of some more advanced techniques and uses of LAMMPS. Specifically, we will be discussing:

  • Measuring and improving LAMMPS performance:
    • Strong vs weak scaling for a range of systems.
    • Smarter domain decomposition.
    • Accelerators, and what they do.
  • Running LAMMPS from Python.
  • Analysing systems through reruns.
  • Advanced sampling methods with a focus on replica exchange.

For this lesson, we expect attendees to be familiar with LAMMPS. We will not be covering how to prepare and run a parallel LAMMPS simulation (and we will assume that all attendees know how to do this already). This lesson is aimed at anyone who:

  • Has experience using bash.
  • Has experience running LAMMPS on multiple processors.
  • Would like to learn more about some of the LAMMPS functionalities stated above.
  • Would like to learn more about tricks and methods for getting LAMMPS to perform efficiently.

Full details and registration

HPC Carpentry

Liverpool, 18 - 19 January 2024 09:30 - 16:00 GMT

This two-day course introduces accessing remote advanced computing facilities via the command line and High Performance Computing (HPC). The first day will introduce how to use the shell in a HPC context. The second day will cover how to use HPC systems effectively. Please note that the first day is optional in case you’re already familiar with the shell.

After completing this course, participants will:

  • Understand motivations for using HPC in research.
  • Understand how HPC systems are put together to achieve performance and how they differ from desktops/laptops.
  • Know how to connect to remote HPC systems and transfer data.
  • Be able to use the Bash command line on remote systems.
  • Know how to use a scheduler to work on a shared system.
  • Be able to use software modules to access different HPC software.
  • Be able to work effectively on a remote shared resource.

Full details and registration

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 recent 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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