{"id":350,"date":"2015-12-14T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T17:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/computing-services\/?p=350"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:44:22","slug":"balena-hpc-inauguration-25th-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/2015\/12\/14\/balena-hpc-inauguration-25th-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Balena HPC Inauguration - 25th January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Balena HPC Inauguration<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Monday 25th January 2016, 12:30 until 14:00<\/em><br \/>\n<em>4 West 1.1<\/em><br \/>\nWe 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. We warmly invite all users of the HPC service to join Professor Jonathan Knight and ourselves for lunch and refreshments to celebrate this event.<\/p>\n<p>To register for this event please sign up at: <a href=\"https:\/\/bathhpc-inauguration-2016.eventbrite.co.uk\">https:\/\/bathhpc-inauguration-2016.eventbrite.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\nThe University of Bath has been running a central HPC system since 2007 and this last year we saw the latest HPC system come into service, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/computing-services\/2014\/07\/03\/what-connects-supercomputers-and-clever-mammals\/\"><strong>Balena<\/strong><\/a>. The Balena HPC system is a \u00a31.36M joint investment by the University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/math-sci\/postgraduate\/samba\/\">SAMBa CDT<\/a> (Mathematical Sciences) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/mech-eng\/research\/composites\/index.html\">Prof Butler's research group<\/a> (Mechanical Engineering).<\/p>\n<p>The Balena HPC system comprises of over 3,000 CPU cores, 22 NVIDIA and 22 Xeon Phi accelerator cards, along with a 200TB high-performance parallel storage system. Balena also sees the introduction of a high-end visualisation suite, which will enable our community to interact and render large 3dimensional data and simulations from a remote location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/bucs\/services\/hpc\">http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/bucs\/services\/hpc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nHPC Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. We warmly invite all...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,57],"tags":[49,86,6,220,221,25],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arc","category-hpc","category-research","tag-balena","tag-high-performance-computing","tag-hpc","tag-inauguration","tag-prof-jonathan-knight","tag-research"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd4PAv-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/arc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}