ARCHER

ARCHER is the latest UK National Supercomputing Service. The ARCHER Service started in November 2013 and is due to end operation on 18th February 2020. Planning for the replacement service ARCHER2 is currently ongoing and latest information can be found at https://www.archer.ac.uk/about-archer/news-events/archer2.php... The ARCHER Service is based around a Cray XC30 supercomputer (more details below) and is provided by the ARCHER Partners: EPSRC, NERC, EPCC, Cray Inc. and The University of Edinburgh. Staff from the partners provide the management, administration, and technical support to keep the system running in a way that maximises the research output of ARCHER. Expertise to support the UK research community in the use of ARCHER is provided by EPCC and Cray Inc. and researchers can also apply for longer term software development support through the eCSE programme... ARCHER provides a capability resource to allow researchers to run simulations and calculations that require large..

Primary location: Edinburgh United Kingdom