The SAMBa CDT, funded by EPSRC, provided additional funding to grow the computational and storage capacity of the University of Bath's new HPC system, Balena. As part of the degree all students will gain valuable skills in Scientific Computing and many...

From 27th July the BeeGFS storage on the Balena HPC cluster will be undergoing an upgrade. We are expecting that Balena will be unavailable for, at most, the entire week while ClusterVision perform the upgrade. During this period there will...

On the 30th June the storage server providing /apps and /data lost power and resulted in the Aquila system becoming unresponsive. This issue was fixed by reseating the power supply unit on the storage node and the storage node boot...

Essential maintenance work will be performed on Aquila's home area storage on 7th July 2015, between 7-9am. While this work is being carried out Aquila will not be available or accessible. All users are required to log out before 8pm...

In favour of presenting a better categorisation of the software packages available on Balena to improve the user experience, the software packages available under the module has been re-organised into the following categories:- Applications Compilers and Languages Libraries Tools Users...

We are looking forward to this year's Symposium on HPC which is taking place this Thursday, 4th June, it is promising to be another packed schedule of talks and posters and over 50 delegates attending. This years keynote talk will be...

If you are interested in fast cars, adventures and breaking world records, you won't want to miss the free keynote lecture from the BLOODHOUND project's chief engineer Mark Chapman.  Mark will discuss the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) within...

Dear All, The High Performance Computing (HPC) Scientific Organising Committee are delighted to announce that at this year's symposium the keynote talk will be given by Mark Chapman, Chief Engineer from the Bloodhound SSC project (http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/). While the talk will...

I am pleased to announce that the CPU and GPU components of the Balena HPC service is available for general use. I apologise that this announcement has come rather suddenly, but this project has not gone as smoothly as hoped...

Dear users of HPC facility, Following the success of previous meetings, we would like to announce the University of Bath's 4th HPC Symposium which will take place on Thursday 4th June (all day). The aim of the symposium is to...