Login to EPCC SAFE SAFE 

ARCHER2 Weekly Newsletter

By ARCHER2 Service on November 11, 2026

Tags: newsletters 

ARCHER2 Enabled…

As the ARCHER2 service draws to a close, we would like to capture all the wonderful things that ARCHER2 enabled our community to achieve.

We invite you to share with us one (or more!) things that having access to ARCHER2 enabled in your work.

Complete the survey

Building Hybrid HPC/AI workflows using RHAPSODY, radex, and DragonHPC

Webinar, Wednesday 11th November 2026 15:00 - 16:00

Many of the underlying techniques that drive today’s AI applications can be repurposed for advancing scientific simulations.

This webinar focuses on two classes of hybrid AI/simulation workflows: AI-in-the-loop where the AI component is coupled tightly within the simulation’s inner loop (e.g. for sub grid-scale modelling) and AI-around-the-loop where AI techniques are used to drive a simulation (e.g. for parameter exploration).

To address the challenges of defining and executing workflows and in-memory data transfer within a worklow, this webinar introduces RHAPSODY and radex, tools co-developed by HPE and the RADICAL lab at Rutgers University, and backed by the DragonHPC distributed runtime.

Full details and join link

Porting HPC applications to GPUs: choosing a programming model

Webinar, Wednesday 18th November 2026 14:00 - 15:00 (Note earlier than usual start time)

This webinar will survey various programming models that can be used to accelerate applications using GPUs. It will cover language parallelism, library usage, directive-based models (OpenMP/OpenACC), grid-based models (CUDA/HIP), and mention high-level frameworks such as Kokkos.

Full details and join link

ARCHER2 Self Service Training courses

The ARCHER2 Self Service Training courses will close from Thursday 12th November and no further registrations will be accepted. We will be making similar courses for Cirrus available in the near future.

ARCHER2 Calendar 2027

As in previous years, we plan to produce a printed calendar featuring some of the images from the ARCHER2 Image and Video 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.

[image]

ARCHER2 end of service: 17:00 GMT Friday 20th November 2026

To help users, we have compiled a set of documentation specifically covering the end of the ARCHER2 service

The documentation covers:

  • Timeline for the end of the ARCHER2 service
  • Data on ARCHER2: what do I need to do to save data I have stored on ARCHER2 file systems?
  • EPCC SAFE: what happens to my personal data in SAFE?
  • HPC access beyond ARCHER2

Key impacts for ARCHER2 users:

  • Data on home, work, solid state scratch file systems will not be accessible beyond the end of the ARCHER2 service
  • RDFaaS will continue beyond the lifetime of ARCHER2 but users will need to transfer data from /epsrc and /general to a different local mount point on ARCHER2 - more details will be provided as soon as they are available
  • No login access will be available beyond the end of the ARCHER2 service

If you have questions about the end of service that are not answered by the documentation, then please contact the ARCHER2 service desk

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.

Twitter

Recordings of past courses

Recordings of past virtual tutorials