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What's new
- 28 July 2010, DEISA Courses, 14-16 September 2010
- 22 July 2010, HECToR External Filesystem Upgrade: Timeline
- 9 June 2010, HECToR Phase 2B Passes Acceptence Tests
- 14 May 2010, Closing date for current round of dCSE applications, 21 June 2010
- 11 May 2010, PRACE Call for Early Access
- 10 May 2010, HECToR Phase 2B Upgrade: Updated Dates
- 16 March 2010, HECToR XT6 Upgrade Roadmap
- 8 March 2010, DEISA PRACE Symposium,10-12 May 2010, Barcelona
- 23 December 2009, Low priority queues available on HECToR
- 21 December 2009, DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Call for Proposals now open, deadline: 16th February 2010
Previous News Items
- 17 December 2009, HECToRNews 7 is now online.
- 6 November 2009, HECToR Archive passed acceptance tests.
- 3 November 2009, HECToRNews 6 is now online.
- 23 October 2009, HECToR Direct Access - Call for applicants.
- 23 October 2009, Updates to CASTEP and VASP Packages.
- 7 October 2009, New Capability Incentives on HECToR.
- 2 October 2009, The HECToR Website has a new face.
- 30 September 2009, HECToR Distributed CSE Support Technical Meeting, 23rd-24th September 2009, Oxford.
- 18 August 2009, HECToRNews 5 is now online.
- 29 June 2009, HECToR 100% Quad Core.
- 19 June 2009, Welcome To Quad Core.
- 4 June 2009, HECToR Quad Core Upgrade.
- 28 May 2009, Phase2a - Preparing for Quad Core.
- 20 May 2009, HECToRNews 4 is now online.
- 12 May 2009, The presentations from the HECToR Town User Meeting are now online.
- 8 May 2009, HECToR now upgraded to CLE 2.1
- 15 April 2009, DEISA PRACE Symposium, 11 - 13 May 2009, Amsterdam
- 23 March 2009, HECToR Town User Meeting, 22 April 2009, London
- 03 March 2009, DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Call for Proposals now open, deadline: 4th May 2009
- 24 February 2009, Accounting on the X2 vector component suspended for 6 months.
- 23 February 2009, HECToRNews 3 is now online.
- 2 December 2008, HECToRNews 2 is now online.
- 14 November 2008, Distributed CSE Support. Apply now for funding to improve your code on HECToR. Submission deadline for current call: 15 December 2008.
- 1 November 2008, HECToRNews 1 is now online.
- 5 August 2008, Scientific Computing World: UK supercomputer rises to scientific challenges.
- 29 July 2008, High Performance Computing Complementary Capability Challenge - Call for Proposals
- 9 July 2008, HECToR User Group Meeting, 23 September 2008
- 30 May 2008, As part of its Cubed webzine, the British Council has an article on the power and application of supercomputers, in particular HECToR, entitled 'Supercomputer Power'
- 28 May 2008, HPCx Annual Seminar
- 17 April 2008, Public Service Review: European Union Issue 15: A super computer
HECToR Training Courses
For information on HECToR Training Courses please see the CSE Training Section
HECToR in the press
- 5 August 2008, Scientific Computing World: UK supercomputer rises to scientific challenges
- 30 May 2008, As part of its Cubed webzine, the British Council has an article on the power and application of supercomputers entitled 'Supercomputer Power'
- 17 April 2008, Public Service Review: European Union Issue 15: A super computer
- 17 January 2008, Scientific Computing: UK national supercomputer unveiled
- 16 January 2008, The Herald: The new brain of Britain
- 15 January 2008, The Scotsman: Inside the life-saving £60m supercomputer
- 15 January 2008, BBC News: Computer brings science up a gear
- 14 January 2008, Scientific Computing: UK supercomputer to weather climate change
- 14 January 2008, Nature: Britain upgrades its number cruncher
- 10 January 2008, Edinburgh Evening News: UK's best supercomputer set to launch in Lothian
- 8 January 2008, The Guardian: Inside the UK's fastest machine
- 7 January 2008, Guardian Unlimited Science Weekly podcast: Science Weekly for January 07: Changes (includes an interview with EPCC's Arthur Trew)
- 24 February 2007, The Herald: What's the story with ... Super-computers
- 22 February 2007, BBC News: Edinburgh site for super-computer
More stories about HECToR are available in the News Section.
HECToR press releases
- 14 January 2008: EPSRC: HECToR press release
- 22 February 2007: University signs contract for supercomputer
- 16 February 2007: EPSRC: High Performance Computing steps up another gear
- 16 February 2007: NAG: Numerical Algorithms Group to Provide HPC Support Services for New UK Supercomputer
- 16 February 2007: Cray: Cray Signs $85 Million Contract to Deliver Supercomputer for Europe's Largest HPC Initiative
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