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EPSRC awards compute units on ARCHER2 to CoSeC as part of a long running collaboration

The Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) has again been awarded a significant resource allocation on ARCHER2, the UK’s National Supercomputing Service,by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC).

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This core allocation is extremely valuable to CoSeC and is the latest one-year extension to a long running agreement with EPSRC. Access to ARCHER2 will enable our cross-cutting and inter-community work and will be used to benefit EPSRC communities in line with the CoSeC mission to champion the concept of “software as an infrastructure” to address complex problems that require advanced computing.

ARCHER2 is a world class advanced computing resource for UK researchers. It aims to provide an environment that improves the skill sets of researchers and software engineers, equipping them for the future; to improve the sustainability and maintainability of the UK’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) software base; and to enable collaboration and outreach across the worldwide HPC community.

The service consists of four main components, provided by  the ARCHER2 service partners.

  • Hardware provided by HPE
  • Service Provision (SP) support provided by EPCC, part of the University of Edinburgh, the UK’s leading Supercomputing and Data Science expertise
  • Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) support provided by EPCC
  • Hosting provided by the University of Edinburgh.

Utilising ARCHER2 will be hugely beneficial and impactful for CoSeC and its communities as they work together to tackle the UK’s biggest research computing challenges.