Hartree Centre Summer School 2013
The Hartree Centre is hosting a one week Summer School at STFC Daresbury Laboratory titled "Programming for Petascale". Attendees will learn the skills necessary to develop applications that run on the top 20 machines of the Top500, now and in the future. Please see the Summer School website for further course content. Applications are now open and the deadline is 12pm Friday 31st May 2013.
N8 HPC Advisory Group Announced
We are pleased to announce the membership of the N8 HPC Advisory Board. Our advisory board consists of industry representatives from various sectors including multi-nationals and SME’s who will advise on N8 HPC industrial activities. We have selected individuals with a proven record in HPC and / or business development in order to take advantage of their expertise to guide N8 HPC to the next level. Sign up for the monthly N8 HPC newsletter
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Driving UK HPC Enabled Science and Innovation Through US Collaborations
Dr Lee Margetts recently represented N8 HPC on a visit of HPC experts to the US to identify areas for collaboration. A report of their findings is now available. 
The first of our industrial case studies has been published. Learn how the BBC collaborated with N8 HPC to use our skills and resources to slash the processing time of a large music database. A fantastic example of how N8 HPC is working with industry to tackle their issues.
N8 HPC
N8 HPC is an EPSRC funded initiative involving the N8 Research Partnership. The aims are to:
- seed engagement between industry and academia around research using e-infrastructure
- develop skills in the use of e-Infrastructure across the N8 partnership
- share the asset of skills and equipment across the N8 partnership via the facilitation of networks of people
The initial investment will provide a focus for the aims above, comprising:
Centre - a distributed team of experts to help with optimising time-to-solution and industrial engagement
Facilities - a Tier 2 SGI 5,000+ core high performance computing facility
A key aspect of N8 HPC is industrial collaborations and we invite those with potential interest to contact us.
Accessing N8 HPC
N8 HPC facilites are available to all researchers based at N8 institutions subject to a light weight peer review. For more details on how to access the facility, please see "Getting Started".