ARCCA News
Condor Workshop August 2009 ARCCA are holding a national Condor Workshop on 16th September 2009 exploring best practice for service provision & examples of research enabled by this technology. Registration is now open; attendance is free for UK academics.
Green Gown Success July2009
The ARCCA SRIF-3 installation has been Highly Commended at the Green Gown awards ceremony held on the 23 June.
New Vacancy July 2009
ARCCA in partnership with Bull Information Systems are looking to recruit a parallel programmer.
Green Gown Awards May 2009
The ARCCA SRIF-3 installation has made the final stage short list of 6 sustainable ICT projects from higher and further education sectors (entries comprised 178 applications from almost 100 institutions).
April 2009
The Spring 2009 issue of Advances Wales is now published and includes a 2 page spread on ARCCA under the Biotechnology section on p20/21.
Intel Multicore Training Course March 2009 ARCCA are hosting a free 3-day Intel Training course "Multicore Programming for Academia 2.0", open to delegates from UK Universities. This course is aimed at people who will be responsible for not only improving the performance of existing codes but also teaching these techniques to colleagues and students.
Cardiff 125 anniversary achievements March 2009 Merlin contributes to another successful year.
Datacentre Awards December 2008 The ARCCA Datacentre is a finalist in two categories in this years Datacentre Dynamics 2008 Awards due to its energy efficient design. Click here for further information.
SuperComputing 2008
December 2008 Cardiff University at SuperComputing - summary of this years supercomputing conference (Austin, Texas) to appear here soon!
10th September 2008 Two new positions are available within ARCCA, co-funded by Bull - an experienced parallel programmer and outreach officer.
BCS IT Industry Standard Awards
9th September 2008 The ARCCA Data Centre, installed by Comtec, is a finalist in this years BCS IT Standards awards - click here for more information
August 2008 The Bull SRIF-3 supercomputer has passed a rigorous set of acceptance tests and is now in full production. Details of this process are now available.
21st July 2008 Presentation from the ARCCA Early Access programme held over in the Julian Hodge Building.
5th July 2008 The inaugural ARCCA annual report is now available for download.
Schools visit to Merlin
20th June 2008
St. Pauls CW Primary School visited ARCCA - click here to read more and see pictures from the day.
2-4 June 2008. Presentations are now available from the Official Opening of the Cardiff HPC Centre of Excellence and the Research Seminar.
25 April 2008
A meeting of the Novel Architecture Focus Group of the HPC-SIG will be held in the Cubric Seminar Room, School of Psychology, Cardiff University commencing at 10:45am on 25th April 2008
Contract Signing Ceremony
6 February 2008.
Official press release made by Bull and photographs from the day.
SRIF-3 Contract Awarded
17 December 2007.
A brief overview of how ARCCA came to choose Bull as the High Performance Computer Supplier and the Contract Signing Ceremony held in Cardiff February 2008.
Introduction to Condor Workshop
28th February 2008 Are you a new Condor user or just curious as to whether Condor is a service which might be able to help with your research needs? Maybe you've heard people mention the "Condor Pool" and would like to know what this is. This workshop is designed to help answer some of these questions, as well as give users an opportunity to try using the Condor service in a controlled friendly environment. It is aimed at a cross-section of the community, from those users who are currently using or thinking about subscribing to the service and would like bit more information or guidance on best practice ideas, to users who are curious to see what the service is and what is involved in being able to run jobs on the pool.
There will be an opportunity to talk and raise questions, run 'hands-on' demonstrations, as well as an opportunity to meet with other condor users and exchange hints and tips.
Advanced Research Computing: An Introduction
7 December 2007 If you want to find out what Advanced Research Computing is all about, this module will give you a quick insight.
New ARCCA staff
19 October 2007 The University has recruited a team of experts to help you with your advanced research computing.
19 October 2007 ARCCA is investing in leading-edge equipment to transform the University's advanced research computing and e-research programme.
ARCCA Mailing Lists
We regularly contact subscribers of our email lists to give them the latest information relating to advanced research computing, including upcoming events and relevant funding calls.
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