ARCHER logo ARCHER banner

The ARCHER Service is now closed and has been superseded by ARCHER2.

  • ARCHER homepage
  • About ARCHER
    • About ARCHER
    • News & Events
    • Calendar
    • Blog Articles
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Service Policies
    • Service Reports
    • Partners
    • People
    • Media Gallery
  • Get Access
    • Getting Access
    • TA Form and Notes
    • kAU Calculator
    • Cost of Access
  • User Support
    • User Support
    • Helpdesk
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • ARCHER App
  • Documentation
    • User Guides & Documentation
    • Essential Skills
    • Quick Start Guide
    • ARCHER User Guide
    • ARCHER Best Practice Guide
    • Scientific Software Packages
    • UK Research Data Facility Guide
    • Knights Landing Guide
    • Data Management Guide
    • SAFE User Guide
    • ARCHER Troubleshooting Guide
    • ARCHER White Papers
    • Screencast Videos
  • Service Status
    • Detailed Service Status
    • Maintenance
  • Training
    • Upcoming Courses
    • Online Training
    • Driving Test
    • Course Registration
    • Course Descriptions
    • Virtual Tutorials and Webinars
    • Locations
    • Training personnel
    • Past Course Materials Repository
    • Feedback
  • Community
    • ARCHER Community
    • ARCHER Benchmarks
    • ARCHER KNL Performance Reports
    • Cray CoE for ARCHER
    • Embedded CSE
    • ARCHER Champions
    • ARCHER Scientific Consortia
    • HPC Scientific Advisory Committee
    • ARCHER for Early Career Researchers
  • Industry
    • Information for Industry
  • Outreach
    • Outreach (on EPCC Website)

You are here:

  • ARCHER
  • Upcoming Courses
  • Online Training
  • Driving Test
  • Course Registration
  • Course Descriptions
  • Virtual Tutorials and Webinars
  • Locations
  • Training personnel
  • Past Course Materials Repository
  • Feedback

Contact Us

support@archer.ac.uk

Twitter Feed

Tweets by @ARCHER_HPC

ISO 9001 Certified

ISO 27001 Certified

Online ARCHER Training

There are a number of ways that you can access ARCHER training materials online if you cannot attend the ARCHER training courses in person.

Course Materials Repository

Material from previous face-to-face ARCHER courses is available in the Course Materials Repository. This typically includes PDF copies of all the slides and exercise sheets, source code for the exercises and any solutions provided.

Virtual Tutorials

Material from the ARCHER webinars is available from the the Virtual Tutorials and Webinars page. This typically includes video recordings of each online session and a PDF copy of the slides.

YouTube Channel

All video recordings related to the ARCHER service are available on the ARCHER YouTube Channel. This also includes a number of short videos covering specific topics such as using the ARCHER SAFE.

Specific Courses

We have collected together relevant material for a number of core topics.

Scientific Computing

Video recordings of the four afternoon sessions introducing HPC

Message-Passing Programming with MPI

  • Video recordings of all the MPI lectures from the 2014 ARCHER Summer School.
  • Associated course materials including slides, exercises and coding examples.

Introduction to ARCHER

This material givese details on the ARCHER hardware and software environment, and assumes familiarity with general HPC concepts (e.g. as covered in Introduction to HPC below).

Documentation

  • The ARCHER Quickstart Guide is a good place to start for information on how to get up and running on ARCHER.
  • The first two sections of the ARCHER Data Management Guide give a general overview of file systems and data transfer mechanisms.

Slides

  • Overview of material and high-level description of the ARCHER system
  • Details of how ARCHER is constructed from Intel CPUs and the Cray Aries interconnect, plus a high-level software overview
  • Details on compiling and submitting parallel jobs to ARCHER
  • Data management on ARCHER
  • Introduction to the Research Data Facility and Data Analytic Cluster

Videos

These videos are recordings of the five lectures above.

  • Overview of material
  • Details of how ARCHER is constructed
  • Details on compiling and submitting jobs
  • Data management on ARCHER
  • Introduction to the Research Data Facility and Data Analytic Cluster

These videos are recordings of ARCHER Virtual Tutorials covering relevant topics.

  • PBS Job Submission
  • ARCHER Filesystems

Introduction to HPC

This material covers topics relevant to HPC and Parallel Computing as a whole, although ARCHER is often used as a specific example.
All material comes from a run of the Hands-on Introduction to HPC course, held at EPCC in summer 2016.

Note that, even if you are unable to run the practical examples on ARCHER, the exercise sheets have useful general information on how to use HPC systems (e.g. compilation and job submission on ARCHER) so are worth reading in their own right.

All the example codes should be easily portable to other systems with appropriate changes to Makefiles and batch submission scripts. If you have any questions, please contact the support@archer.ac.uk

Videos

See this playlist on the ARCHER YouTube channel which is a complete recording of the course.

Slides

Slides are available from the Past Course Materials Repository.

Exercises

Exercises are available from the Past Course Materials Repository.

Copyright © Design and Content 2013-2019 EPCC. All rights reserved.

EPSRC NERC EPCC