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Wednesday 11th December 2019

  • Festive extended weekend queue, RDF outage and support arrangements over the festive period
  • Training : Upcoming ARCHER Training Opportunities

Support over the Festive Period

The Helpdesk and ARCHER support service will be available throughout the festive period as usual between 8:30 and 18:00 each working day except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day (25, 26 December) and New Years Day (1 January).

Extended weekend queue over the Festive Period

We are pleased to announce that the weekend queue will be in operation for the whole of the festive period, from 18:00 Friday 20th December until 06:00 on Monday 6 January. Jobs queued but not run during the weekend queue open hours will remain in the queue, and will be eligible to be run during a subsequent weekend. Full details of weekend queue can be found at http://www.archer.ac.uk/documentation/user-guide/batch.php#sec-5.12

RDF Outage

The RDF is unavailable for essential hardware maintenance on 12/12/19 10:00 - 13:00. This outage will affect all RDF filesystems on Archer (/EPSRC, /NERC and /GENERAL), the DAC, the DTNs and the Container hosts.

Upcoming Training Opportunities

Registration open now

  • Hands-on Introduction to HPC, EPCC, Edinburgh, 7-8 January 2020
  • GPU Programming with CUDA, EPCC, Edinburgh, 9-10 January 2020
  • Advanced MPI, Imperial College London, 27-28 January 2020
  • Cray Compilation Environment Update and modern Fortran, Online webinar, 29 January 2020 15:00

Full details and registration at http://www.archer.ac.uk/training/index.php

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