User Site
Support
The support section contains the HECToR User Guide, the HECToR Best Practice Guide, the HECToR FAQ and other documentation relating to HECToR. It also contains information on how to get in touch with the HECToR Helpdesk if you have any questions or problems relating to the service. There are also links to other support information such as the User Wiki.
Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)
The CSE section contains information on training courses run as part of the HECToR service; documentation on optimising your code for the HECToR facilities; applying for dCSE resources to improve your software and reports on previous dCSE projects; and the HECToR Newsletters.
Cray Centre of Excellence (CoE)
The Cray CoE section has information on projects that have been undertaken by the CoE to improve software performance on Cray architectures.
Latest News
- 18 January 2012, Phase 3 Acceptance Testing
- 7 December 2011, Phase 3 System Online
- 16 November 2011, HECToR Phase 3 Update
- 04 November 2011, PRACE Calls: 4th Regular Call, 8th DECI Call, Call for Preparatory Access
- 03 November 2011, Changes to HECToR for Phase 3
- 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
Upcoming Training Courses
- February 8-10, 2012 University of Sheffield - Parallel Programming with MPI
- February 20, 2012 NAG Manchester - Phase III: Introduction to HECToR
- February 21-23, 2012 NAG Manchester - Phase III: Debugging, Profiling and Optimising
- April 16-18, 2011 University of Warwick - DL_POLY/FIELD/MESO Training Workshop



