The High Performance Computing Special Interest Group for UK Academia
Website https://excalibur.ac.uk/hes Contact excalibur-hes@jiscmail.ac.uk Purpose The Hardware and Enabling Software Programme (H&ES) provides grant funding for testbed projects that give UK researchers early access to novel hardware and software technologies that may play a part in future exascale systems and services.
Website https://n8cir.org.uk/dri-retreat/ Contact enquiries@n8cir.org.uk Purpose Programme to enhance the professional (soft) skills of DRI professionals. Widening the demographic of individuals able to undertake a career within the DRI (e.g. from non-science or enterprise-IT backgrounds). Aimed to be accessible to all roles supporting the DRI – building on core common attributes. Facilitating knowledge exchange of experts …
Website https://dirac.ac.uk Contact mark.wilkinson@leicester.ac.uk Purpose Provide HPC resources for the STFC theory communities (particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics, planetary science); deliver HPC training; deliver innovation programme in partnership with industry.
Website http://www.cosec.stfc.ac.uk Contact cosec@stfc.ac.uk Purpose The Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) supports the advancement of scientific research by developing and strengthening software to analyse and solve increasingly complex problems in multiple disciplines – physics, chemistry, life sciences, engineering, and more.
Website www.stfc.ac.uk/CIUK Twitter @CompInsightUK Contact CIUK@stfc.ac.uk Purpose Leading UK conference and exhibition for supercomputing and associated science, organised by STFC, that allows attendees to hear about real life usage of HPC in a wide variety of science projects. The CIUK exhibition allows attendees to communicate with a wide and varied selection of hardware and software …
Website https://society-rse.org Contact info@society-rse.org Purpose The Society was founded to establish a research environment that recognises the vital role of software in research. We work to increase software skills across everyone in research, to promote collaboration between researchers and software experts, and to support the creation of an academic career path for Research Software Engineers.
The SSI promotes sustainability of code, code quality, community building, and others, that can help ensure that software developed in universities which may employ high performance code can flourish.
EPCC is a centre for excellence in high performance and parallel computing. It also hosts ARCHER2.
The Hartree Centre is a collaborative endeavour with IBM to provide academia and industry with supercomputing facilities. It complements Archer.
Tier 2 is the layer of HPC sites that sit above the Tier 3, or university resources, and are bigger than most university systems. Tier 2s are an EPSRC initiative, and have a dedicated web page. Information on the previous generation of Tier 2 and also other related sites can be found here.