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Tuesday 6th March 2018

  • Change to Planned RDF Downtime for UPS Battery Replacement
  • Default module versions changed for Git, Curl and OpenSSL
  • ARCHER Champions, Manchester 25th April 2018
  • Getting Access to UK Advanced Computational Facilities for your Research
  • Training : Upcoming ARCHER Training Opportunities

Change to Planned RDF Downtime for UPS Battery Replacement

The RDF has built-in UPS systems (uninterruptible power supply) to help prevent data loss and corruption in case of a power outage. The batteries in these UPS systems are now approaching the end of their life and have to be replaced. The replacement work needs to be carried out with the RDF offline to reduce any risk of data loss during the process and is required to be completed before the actual battery end of life date.

We had planned to replace the RDF UPS batteries in the week of 5 March. However due to the severe weather the external contractors due to carry out the replacement work have had to postpone their visit to us. We have rebooked the work for the week starting 19 March 2018.

This means that this week, starting 5 March, the /eprsc, /nerc and /general file systems, RDF, DAC, DTNs, GridPP and access to JASMIN will now be available for use. The week of 19 March the /eprsc, /nerc and /general file systems, RDF, DAC, DTNs, GridPP and access to JASMIN will all be unavailable. We hope that the work can be completed in less than 5 days and will let you know if the RDF is returned to service early.

We will update our status page (https://www.archer.ac.uk/status ) and remind you of the work planned for the week of 19 March nearer the time. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and please contact the ARCHER Helpdesk if you have any questions or concerns.

Default module versions changed for Git, Curl and OpenSSL

The default modules for Git, Curl and OpenSSL were changed today, 6 March 2018, to

git/2.16.2_build1

curl/7.58.0_build1

openssl/1.1.0g_build1

These changes are needed to use TLS 1.2, which is now required by GitHub. Use

module load git

and then use the usual Git commands (clone, pull, push, etc.).

Previous versions of the git, curl and openssl modules have been removed.

ARCHER Champions: Manchester, MoSI Wednesday 25th April 2018

The next ARCHER Champions will be held in Manchester at the Museum of Science and Industry on Wednesday 25th April 2018. It will be a full day meeting which will follow the UK/US SSI Impact Event taking place on Tuesday 24th April. There will be an evening meal on the Tuesday evening in Manchester.

Topics will include the eCSE programme, training and MOOCs, Tier 2 and a discussion session on the future of Champions. We will also have sessions with lightning talks from Champions so please let us know if you would like to contribute.

Registration for the workshop is now open.

Bursaries will be available to cover reasonable travel and accommodation costs. If you would like to apply for a bursary,please contact the ARCHER helpdesk.

Getting Access to UK Advanced Computational Facilities for your Research

Wednesday 7th March 2018 15:00 Online

Andy Turner, EPCC

We will give an overview of UK HPC facilities and how to get access to them through the currently open Resource Allocation Panel (RAP) calls.

Join http://bit.ly/ARCHER-VTs

"Scholarships available for EPCC's MSc in HPC Programmes 2018/19

We thought ARCHER users might want to mention these funding opportunities to any potential MSc students - for more information including upcoming Virtual Open Days see: scholarships opportunities.

Upcoming Training Opportunities

Registration open now

  • Porting and Optimisation Workshop Oxford 8 March 2018
  • Efficient Parallel IO on ARCHER Cambridge 20 - 21 March 2018
  • Threaded Programming Southampton 20 - 22 March 2018
  • Message-Passing programming with MPI Southampton 11 - 13 April 2018
  • ARCHER Champions Manchester 25th April 2018
  • Advanced OpenMP Cambridge 17 - 19 July 2018
  • Full details and registration at http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/index.php

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