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Previous News Items

  • 04 November 2011, Changes to HECToR for Phase 3
  • 20 October 2011, HECToR Phase 3 Upgrade Plans
  • 11 October 2011, Talks from the HECToR Distributed CSE Support Technical Meeting, 4-5 Oct 2011, are now on line
  • 15 August 2011, EPSRC Call for applications to the RAP: Deadline 16:00 on 07 October 2011
  • 22 June 2011, HECToR Cabinet Design Competition
  • 21 June 2011, External Lustre Expansion - Second Filesystem
  • 10 May 2011, Cray signs contract to upgrade and expand the HECToR facility
  • 9 May 2011, EPSRC Class 1a top-up call, deadline 16:00 10 June 2011
  • 3 May 2011, Closing date for current round of dCSE applications, 20 June 2011
  • 21 April 2011, HECToR User App for iPhone and Android
  • 21 April 2011, NWChem workshop, Edinburgh, 13-14 June 2011
  • 12 April 2011, HECToR Phase3 Plans, Phase2a End Of Life 31 May 2011
  • 18 January 2011, DEISA/PRACE Spring School, 29-31 March 2011, Edinburgh
  • 3 December 2010, Phase 2b Gemini Upgrade: 6 - 17 December 2010
  • 13 October 2010, Closing date for the next round of dCSE applications is 6 December 2010
  • 6 September 2010, HECToR User Group 12 October 2010
  • 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
  • 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
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