Aquila HPC service retirement - 30th September 2015
We trust that everyone is making good use of the Balena HPC service, it certainly appears to be heavily used over the last few months. I would like to make you aware that on 30th September 2015, we...
View ArticleBalena HPC Inauguration - 25th January 2016
Balena HPC Inauguration Monday 25th January 2016, 12:30 until 14:00 4 West 1.1 We will be hosting the inauguration of the Balena HPC system on Monday 25th January from 12:30 until 14:00 at 4 West 1.1....
View ArticleHPC Symposium 2016 - Thursday 9th June
Here is a date for your diaries, the University's 5th Symposium on HPC will be held on Thursday 9th June 2016. The main aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for current (and prospective) users of...
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Researchers get a welcome performance boost
Research and Innovation Services (RIS) are getting excited about the joint £1.36 Million investment into our new High Performance Computing system, Balena. They've included a write up in their news...
View Article5th Annual HPC Symposium - First Announcement
We are pleased to announce the 5th Annual Bath University HPC Symposium, which will take place on: Thursday, 9th June from 09:30 - 18:00 Registration is free (including refreshments) and is now open...
View Article5th Annual HPC Symposium - Abstract Submission Now Open
Abstract submission for the 5th Annual Bath University HPC Symposium on Thursday 9th June is now open [please note that the day (Tuesday) in the earlier announcement was a typo!]. We would like to...
View Article"HPC and Accelerator Cards" by Martin Schreiber, 29th April 2016
Next Friday (29th of April) Martin Schreiber (Exeter, see https://emps.exeter.ac.uk/mathematics/staff/ms698 ) will give a guest lecture for our Scientific Computing course in the maths department, and...
View Article5th Annual HPC Symposium - Keynote Speakers
We are pleased to announce two keynote talks for the upcoming 5th Annual Bath HPC Symposium on Thursday 9th June. The first keynote will be given by Dr Tom Connor from Cardiff University, titled "The...
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5th Annual HPC Symposium was a great success
We would like to thank everyone who joined us at the 5th Annual Bath HPC Symposium yesterday. Following the trend from previous years, the event was a great success for the University. This year...
View ArticleHPC for researchers by Tobias Brewer
The annual symposium at Bath brings together people from across the University to discuss how they use High Performance Computing (HPC) in their research. This year, the event included talks from...
View ArticleMathematicians use Balena to model global air pollution
Dr Gavin Shaddick, of the University of Bath’s Department of Mathematical Sciences and Deputy Director of the Bath Institute for Mathematical Innovation, has been leading an international research...
View ArticleBalena Maintenance - 8th to 12th August 2016
The maintenance work will begin on Monday 8th August and is expected to take up to a week to complete. During this maintenance window there will be no access to the Balena system and all queued jobs...
View ArticleGW4 joins industry partners to develop ‘first of its kind’ supercomputer
GW4 Alliance, together with Cray Inc. and the Met Office, has been awarded £3m by EPSRC to deliver a new Tier 2 high performance computing (HPC) service for UK-based scientists. This unique new...
View ArticleBalena maintenance - 2nd February 2017
During Inter-Semester break, on Thursday 2 February between 09:00 and 13:00, we will be placing the cluster into maintenance mode whilst we perform failover tests between the pair of master nodes and...
View ArticleBalena maintenance, Thursday 2 February 2017
During inter-semester break, Thursday 2 February, between 9am and 1pm, we will be placing the cluster into maintenance mode whilst we perform failover tests between the pair of master nodes and BeeGFS...
View ArticleSave the date - 6th Annual Symposium on HPC on 12th June 2017
We are pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing will be healed on Monday 12th June 2017. This symposium organized by the University of Bath we will bring together...
View ArticleEPSRC launches six new Tier2 HPC Centres
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has just launched six new High Performance Computational (HPC) Centres, worth a combined £20 million, at the Thinktank Science museum in...
View ArticleBalena system maintenance: 14th - 21st July 2017
On the weekend on 15/16th July there will be essential maintenance being carried out on the 5 West data-centre. For this work to be carried out, Balena will need to powered down for that weekend....
View ArticleBath 6th Annual HPC Symposium - 12th June 2017
We are looking forward to the 6th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing (HPC) in just a few days time, on Monday, 12th June 2017, over in the Chancellors' Building. We have had 63...
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Bath's 6th Annual HPC Symposium
We would like to thank everyone who joined us at the 6th Annual HPC Symposium on Monday! "We have seen the symposium go from strength to strength and become established as a key event for bringing...
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