<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- This is a frozen version of the feed, created 09/10/14 --><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>HECToR News</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk</link><description>News from the HECToR UK national supercomputing facility</description><language>en-uk</language><lastBuildDate>Mon 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>HECToR Service now Closed</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2014-03-24-HECToRClosed.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2014-03-24-HECToRClosed.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The HECToR system is now closed. For details on ARCHER, the follow on service to HECToR, please see the  ARCHER Webpage....]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR End of Service, RDF Upgrades</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2014-01-17-HECToRTimeline.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2014-01-17-HECToRTimeline.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As you should all be aware, the HECToR service will end in March 2014. 
The HECToR service will CLOSE at 1800 Hrs on 21st March.
...]]></description></item><item><title>Module Updates and Removals</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-07-03-module_updates.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-07-03-module_updates.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are planning a number of updates in default module versions and some
module removals for the maintenance/at-risk session on Wednesday 17 July 2013....]]></description></item><item><title>New version of MPI on HECToR will require recompile and relink</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-05-27-mpt6_announcement.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-05-27-mpt6_announcement.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 27 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cray are planning to release a major new version of the their parallel libraries,
known as Cray Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) in their June software release. MPT is visible
on the HECToR system as the "cray-mpich2" and "cray-shmem" modules....]]></description></item><item><title>Applications open for PRACE Managing Director Position</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-04-11-PRACE_MD.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-04-11-PRACE_MD.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
Applications are invited to the post of Managing Director of PRACE. 
The key features are: 


    
     2 year full-time post, not necessarily based in Brussels, possibility of secondment
     Requirement for familiarity of managing/running an HPC service/activity
     CVs have to be sent to the Recruitment Agency (ahiribarrondo@sirca.fr) by 15th May
     Applicants have to be ready to be interviewed in Paris on May the 27th  




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...]]></description></item><item><title>Moving data on/off the RDF to external sites </title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-03-14.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-03-14.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
Three "Data Mover" nodes have been configured on the RDF. These enable
access at times when HECToR is unavailable such as during maintenance
sessions, and will provide direct 10gbit Ethernet connections to the
outside world. 
...]]></description></item><item><title>Environment changes and long term data storage</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-03-05-environment-storage.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-03-05-environment-storage.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After the maintenance on 6 March 2012 the following message is being displayed to
 all users when they log onto HECToR:...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Extension until March 2014 </title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-01-29.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-01-29.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
As announced at the HECToR User Meeting in December, the HECToR Service has been 
extended until March 2014.
...]]></description></item><item><title>DDT Debugger now available on HECToR </title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-01-24.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2013-01-24.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[

DDT is a debugging tool for scalar, multi-threaded and large-scale parallel applications.
 For more information on how to use DDT please check the Optimisation Guide online:

http://www.hector.ac.uk/support/documentation/guides/bestpractice/debug.php#sec-7.5

...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR/ARCHER User Meeting, 12 December 2012, London </title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-11-05.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-11-05.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[

On behalf of EPSRC, NAG would like to invite current and future users of the national HPC service to a meeting on December 12th in London.  The morning session will be devoted to the HECToR service and will include a Q&A session with representatives of the funding agencies and service providers.  In the afternoon the focus will be on the next service, ARCHER, with an update on the ongoing hardware procurement exercise and an opportunity to put forward user requirements for the upcoming CSE and Service Provision procurements.
...]]></description></item><item><title>24 hour queues available</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-07-04-long_queues.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-07-04-long_queues.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to announce that the maximum walltime for jobs
that use between 5 and 128 nodes (160 and 4096 cores when fully-populated)
has been increased from 12 to 24 hours....]]></description></item><item><title>UK Research Data Facility</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-06-11-rdf.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-06-11-rdf.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to announce that the UK Research Data Facility is
now operational and connected to HECToR. The RDF is designed as a persistent,
high-capacity, robust, extensible filestore that will exist beyond the
lifetime of the HECToR service.You can find more information on the RDF in:...]]></description></item><item><title>'bolt' job submission script creation tool</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-06-11-bolt.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-06-11-bolt.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The bolt job submission script creation tool has been written by
EPCC to simplify the process of
writing job submission scripts for modern multicore architectures. Based
on the options you supply, bolt will try to generate a job submission script
that uses HECToR as efficiently as possible....]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR OS Upgrade</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-06-11-CLE_upgrade.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-06-11-CLE_upgrade.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The HECToR operating system (CLE) will be upgraded during the maintenance
session on the 20 June 2012. There should be no need to recompile codes after
the upgrade. If you experience any problems with your simulations after the
upgrade then you should recompile in the first instance....]]></description></item><item><title>2012 EPSRC Resource Allocation Panel Deadlines </title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-05-08-deadline.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-05-08-deadline.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
Deadline: 16:00 29 June 2012



Class 1b (Direct Access) 

Class 1a top-up  

Access to the GPGPU Test Bed   

...]]></description></item><item><title>LB3D Release Announcement</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-03-13-LB3D.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-03-13-LB3D.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On behalf of Professor P. V. Coveney, Director of the Centre for Computational Science
and Director of the Computational Life & Medical Sciences Network
...]]></description></item><item><title>Capturing User Requirements for the next national HPC facility, ARCHER</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-29-archer_survey.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-29-archer_survey.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As you may have seen from press announcements in autumn 2011, the Government has 
made a recent capital investment of 158m in e-infrastructure. This investment includes
 funding for the next HPC national service, ARCHER. Subject to successful project
 review, a total of 43m of capital funding is available, whilst the running costs
 of the facility will be met by EPSRC, NERC and BBSRC from their existing budgets....]]></description></item><item><title>Update to default system modules: 7 March 2012</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-20-default_module_update.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-20-default_module_update.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We will be updating many of the default system modules and a few of the
centrally-installed software package modules during the maintenance session on
Wednesday 7 March....]]></description></item><item><title>Getting the most out of the HECToR batch system</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-20-batch_system.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-20-batch_system.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We have recently introduced a number of resources that are designed to 
allow HECToR users to use the batch system as efficiently as possible:...]]></description></item><item><title>Minister launches next generation of supercomputers for UK researchers</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-13-phase3.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-13-phase3.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Imagine if every person on the planet were able to carry out 250,000 calculations
per second simultaneously. This is the combined capability of the next stage of development,
announced today, of two giant computers, HECToR and BlueGene/Q, based at the University of
Edinburgh's Advanced Computing Facility (ACF). It marks the next chapter in the UK's
supercomputing programme. ...]]></description></item><item><title>Phase 3 acceptance/availability tests successfully completed</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-07-phase3_acceptance_complete.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-02-07-phase3_acceptance_complete.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are delighted to announce that both the Phase 3 acceptance tests and availability
 trials have completed successfully. The 10-day availability trial was started on
 Friday 27th Jan, immediately after the system was returned to service....]]></description></item><item><title>Phase 3 Acceptance Testing and Availability Trials</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-01-18-Phase3_update.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2012-01-18-Phase3_update.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
We are delighted to confirm that the work was completed on 18 January 2012 to integrate the
final 10 cabinets into the Phase3 system. HECToR now comprises 2816 compute nodes, or 90,112 cores.
...]]></description></item><item><title>Phase 3 System Online</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-12-07-Phase3Up.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-12-07-Phase3Up.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to tell you that the first part of the phase 3
upgrade is complete. The HECToR system is now made up of AMD 'Interlagos'
Opteron Processors with the 'Bulldozer' architecture....]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Phase 3 Update - 24th Nov</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-11-16-Phase3_update.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-11-16-Phase3_update.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
The Phase3 Upgrade Plan has now been revised.
...]]></description></item><item><title>Changes to HECToR for Phase 3</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-11-04-Phase3Changes.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-11-04-Phase3Changes.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There will be a number of changes to the system during the switch to Phase 3 next week. We outline those
that will impact on users below. If you are unsure of any of the details or have any further questions
please contact the HECToR Helpdesk at helpdesk@hector.ac.uk....]]></description></item><item><title>Preparatory Access Call for Tier-0</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-11-03-PRACE_Calls.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-11-03-PRACE_Calls.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
Opening date: 2nd November 2011 
Closing date: 10th January 2012, 1600 CEST 
Start date: 1st May 2012
Allocation period: 1 year
Type of access: Project access
Website: http://prace-ri.eu/PRACE-Project-Access-4th-call-for
...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Phase 3 Upgrade</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-10-18-Phase3_upgrade.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-10-18-Phase3_upgrade.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
We are pleased to announce that the Phase 3 upgrade is now ready to commence.
...]]></description></item><item><title>EPSRC RAP Deadline - 16:00 on 07 October 2011 </title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-08-15-deadline.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-08-15-deadline.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
Applications can be made for :




Class 1b (Direct Access) 

Class 1a top-up  

Access to the GPGPU Test Bed   

...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Cabinet Design Competition</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-06-22-artcomp.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-06-22-artcomp.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
To mark the unveiling of the third phase of HECToR - the UK's largest, fastest and
 most powerful supercomputer in summer 2011, the Research Councils are launching
a competition to produce a design for the front of HECToR.
...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR  Secondary External Filesystem Upgrade: Timeline</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-06-20-esfs_timeline.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-06-20-esfs_timeline.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Users may recall that data was migrated from an internal lustre filesystem to an external one back in autumn 2010.
The original internal disk has remained unused until now. The original 600TB of disk has now been reconfigured to be part of the external filesystem.
...]]></description></item><item><title>Cray signs contract to upgrade and expand the HECToR facility</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-05-10-hectorupgrade.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-05-10-hectorupgrade.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 10 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cray has announced the details of the next upgrade to HECToR, the UK's national supercomputing service....]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR User App for iPhone and Android </title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-04-21-userapp.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-04-21-userapp.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
EPCC has released a new HECToR User app for iPhone and Android.
...]]></description></item><item><title>NWChem Workshop</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-04-21-NWchem-ws.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-04-21-NWchem-ws.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    EPCC, Edinburgh, Scotland 
       13 - 14 June 2011
   
...]]></description></item><item><title>Phase 3 Plans, Phase2a End Of Life 31 May 2011</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-04-12-phase3_upgrade.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-04-12-phase3_upgrade.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As communicated at the HECToR town meeting in October, the next Phase of the HECToR
 service is scheduled to commence in Q4 2011....]]></description></item><item><title>DEISA/PRACE Spring School:  Tools and Techniques for Extreme Scalability</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-01-18-Spring-School.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2011-01-18-Spring-School.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    EPCC, Edinburgh, Scotland 
       Tuesday 29 March - Thursday 31 March 2011
   
...]]></description></item><item><title>Phase 2b Gemini Upgrade: 6 - 17 December 2010</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-12-03-gemini_upgrade.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-12-03-gemini_upgrade.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The HECToR phase 2b system will be upgraded shortly to the latest Cray
Gemini interconnect. This upgrade should provide a significant perfomance
increase for many applications....]]></description></item><item><title>DEISA Training Courses: 14 - 16 September 2010, EPCC, Edinburgh</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-07-28-deisa_courses.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-07-28-deisa_courses.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
DEISA is running a series of three training courses at EPCC, The
University of Edinburgh, in September 2010. All the courses will be
based around a series of lectures with associated practical programming
exercises.
...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR External Filesystem Upgrade: Timeline</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-07-22-esfs_timeline.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-07-22-esfs_timeline.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In order to increase the amount of '/work' disk space available to users and to increase
the flexibility of the HECToR service we are planning to upgrade the system over the next
few months....]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Passes Acceptance Tests</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-06-09-phase2b_access.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-06-09-phase2b_access.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We are delighted to advise that the HECToR Phase 2b (Cray XT6) system
successfully completed its initial acceptance tests this afternoon.
The next step is to enable user access and to commence the 10 day
availability trial....]]></description></item><item><title>PRACE Call for Early Access</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-05-11_PRACE_Early_Access.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-05-11_PRACE_Early_Access.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Issued 10 May 2010...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Phase 2B Upgrade: Updated Dates</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-05-10-xt6UpdatedUpgradeRoadmap.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-05-10-xt6UpdatedUpgradeRoadmap.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 10 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The latest dates for the Phase 2B upgrade this Summer to include a 20 cabinet Cray XT6 system.
We will update users as soon as we have any more information on exact dates....]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR XT6 Upgrade Roadmap</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-03-16-xt6UpgradeRoadmap.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-03-16-xt6UpgradeRoadmap.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The HECToR service will be upgraded this spring to include a 20 cabinet Cray XT6....]]></description></item><item><title>DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-03-08-deisa.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2010-03-08-deisa.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEISA, (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) and PRACE
(Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) are holding their joint annual science
symposium from May 10 - May 12 in Barcelona, Spain....]]></description></item><item><title>Low Priority Queues Available on HECToR</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-12-23-lpa.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-12-23-lpa.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A low priority queue is now available on HECToR. The key facts are as
follows:...]]></description></item><item><title>6th DECI Call for Proposals now open</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-12-21-deci.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-12-21-deci.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Call for Proposals now open, Submission 
Deadline: 16th February 2010...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Archive</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-11-06-Archive.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-11-06-Archive.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[

We are delighted to confirm that the HECToR Archive passed its acceptance
tests yesterday. Early user trials will now commence as of the next
scheduled maintenance slot on 18th November. Usage instructions for the
archive will be issued shortly.

...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Direct Access</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-23-HECToRDirectAccess.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-23-HECToRDirectAccess.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In response to the 2009 Gateway review of the HECToR project, EPSRC are piloting a new access class for the HECToR
 service called 'Direct Access' (Class 1b) where users can request significant amounts ( greater than 1,000,000 AUs) of computing resource 
 only for a period of up to six months....]]></description></item><item><title>Updates to CASTEP and VASP Packages</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-23-CASTEPandVASPUpdate.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-23-CASTEPandVASPUpdate.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The latest version of CASTEP (5.0) has now been installed on HECToR (for the XT system).
 You can select this version by using the:...]]></description></item><item><title>Capability Incentives on HECToR</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-07-CapabilityIncentives.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-07-CapabilityIncentives.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The principal purpose of the Research Councils in funding the HECToR service is to
 provide a system with capabilities which are unmatched by computing services at 
the University or department level. HECToR is a high-end supercomputing platform,
 and as such should be targeted at large-scale simulations which can effectively 
utilise a significant fraction of the machine. 
...]]></description></item><item><title>The HECToR Website has a new face</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-02-HECToRPublicFace.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-10-02-HECToRPublicFace.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The HECToR Website has a new face. The home page is now simplified and includes a
high level public view of the service. You can find the new part of the site at:...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR 100% Quad Core</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-06-29-HECToRFullyQuadCore.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-06-29-HECToRFullyQuadCore.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
We are delighted to advise that HECToR is now back in service following the second stage of the quad core upgrade.
...]]></description></item><item><title>Welcome To Quad Core</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-06-19-WelcomeToQuadCore.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-06-19-WelcomeToQuadCore.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
We are delighted to advise that HECToR is now back in service following the initial stage of the quad core upgrade.
...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR Quad Core Upgrade</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-06-04-Phase2a_upgrade.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-06-04-Phase2a_upgrade.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
We are pleased to announce that the Phase2a quad core upgrade is now ready to commence.
...]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR now upgraded to CLE 2.1</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-05-08-cle_upgrade.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-05-08-cle_upgrade.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On May 6 2009 the Cray Linux Environment (CLE) on HECToR was upgraded from version 2.0 to version 2.1....]]></description></item><item><title>Welcome to the DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009.</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-04-15-deisa.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-04-15-deisa.php</guid><pubDate>Wed 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing
Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in
Europe, decided to merge their annual scientific symposia into one big
European HPC event: The DEISA PRACE Symposium....]]></description></item><item><title>5th DECI Call for Proposals now open</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-03-03-deci.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-03-03-deci.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Call for Proposals now open,
Submission Deadline: 4th May 2009...]]></description></item><item><title>Suspension of X2 Accounting</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-02-24-freex2.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2009-02-24-freex2.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As part of the
Research Council's
desire to promote new and innovative uses of HECToR,
the Research Councils have taken the decision to allow users unrestricted access to the X2
vector system for a period of 6 months....]]></description></item><item><title>High Performance Computing Complementary Capability Challenge - Call for Proposals</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-07-29-hpc.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-07-29-hpc.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Call Now Open - Closing Date 4pm 11th September 2008...]]></description></item><item><title>Call for Proposals for the 4th DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative. Submission Deadline: 30th June 2007</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-05-15-deisa.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-05-15-deisa.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEISA, or the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing  
Applications, consists of 11 HPC Centres across Europe, providing a  
pan-European Grid of HPC resources.  HPCx has been a platform within  
DEISA for the last 3 years and HECToR joined DEISA in May, 2008....]]></description></item><item><title>HECToR to be part of DEISA: 11th March 2008</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-03-11-hectorDeisa.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-03-11-hectorDeisa.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In May 2008, HECToR will begin to contribute to the shared pool of
resources operated jointly by the DEISA partners. The consortium
currently contains eleven supercomputing centres in seven countries
(UK, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Netherlands and Spain) and
contains most of the major HPC systems in Europe....]]></description></item><item><title>DEISA Symposium 2008: 28-29th April 2008</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-03-11-deisa.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2008-03-11-deisa.php</guid><pubDate>Tue 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The DEISA, Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing
Applications, Grid of supercomputers is unique within Europe. DEISA is
a structured layer on top of the national supercomputing services which
are tightly coupled by a dedicated network and supported by innovative
system and grid software. Users can now run simulations which, without
DEISA, would not have been feasible....]]></description></item><item><title>Duke of York visits the ACF: 14th November 2007</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-11-22-duke.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-11-22-duke.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 22 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
The Duke of York with Professor Arthur Trew, Director of EPCC...]]></description></item><item><title>What's the story with ... Super-computers?</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-24-herald.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-24-herald.php</guid><pubDate>Sat 24 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For when it goes live from a secret location around Edinburgh in October, Hector - for that is the computer's name - will enable scientists from all over the UK to carry out remotely the most complex and varied research it is possible to do....]]></description></item><item><title>University of Edinburgh Signs Contract for Supercomputer</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-23-hpcwire.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-23-hpcwire.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) is a vast computing facility worth 113m over six years. The computer will be made by the American supercomputer company, Cray Inc. It has been paid for by the UK Research Councils and will be installed at the University's Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) on the Edinburgh Technopole estate in Midlothian. EPCC (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) at the University of Edinburgh will direct and operate the facility. It will start work in October this year and is planned to last for six years....]]></description></item><item><title>Edinburgh site for super-computer</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-22-bbc.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-22-bbc.php</guid><pubDate>Thu 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The 113m machine, Hector (High End Computing Terascale Resources), will be used for solving complex problems by researchers across the country....]]></description></item><item><title>113m super computer to carry a Torch for the Capital</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-19-een.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-19-een.php</guid><pubDate>Mon 19 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The sophisticated machine is likely to be the most powerful in the UK and one of the world's leading supercomputers....]]></description></item><item><title>High Performance Computing Steps up Another Gear</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-16-ww.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-16-ww.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) is the latest national high performance computing service for the UK academic community. It will provide UK scientists with the means to undertake increasingly complex computational simulations across a range of scientific disciplines including climatology, earth sciences, chemistry, materials, fluid dynamics, atomic and molecular physics, plasma physics and nanoscience. The service is expected to operate for six years and have an initial theoretical peak capability of 60 Tflop/s....]]></description></item><item><title>The national importance of HECToR was recognised by a statement in the Scottish Parliament</title><link>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-16-msp.php</link><guid>http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/news/2007-02-16-msp.php</guid><pubDate>Fri 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The national importance of HECToR was recognised in the Scottish Parliament when MSP Mike Pringle, whose constituency includes EPCC, lodged the following motion:...]]></description></item></channel></rss>
