Advancing Research Computing

  • BeeGFS upgrade 27th - 31st July 2015

    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...

  • Aquila system outage 30th June - 2nd July 2015

    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...

  • HPC User Group Meeting - 21st July 2015

    On 21st July 14:30 - 16:30 in 3WN 3.8, we will be holding a HPC User Group Meeting. This will be the first user group meeting after Balena has been opened to users and we are keen to get feedback...

  • Aquila storage maintenance work on 7-9am on 7th July 2015

    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...

  • Changing the Module environment on Balena

    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...

  • 4th HPC Symposium this Thursday

    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...

  • BLOODHOUND project chief engineer, keynote lecture

    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...

  • HPC Keynote: Mark Chapman, Chief Engineer from the Bloodhound SSC Project

    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...

  • Balena HPC Service goes Live

    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...

  • Invitation to HPC Symposium 4th June 2015

    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...