Scientific and High Performance Computing (HPC)

Local Facilities

• Queuing system on desktops
• Running long jobs on UNIX workstations
• Faculty HPC System "Swirles"
• Old faculty HPC system "Fawcett"
• Fortran, C and C++ Compilers

Support

• The University Computing Service offer Scientific Computing Support via the email address: escience-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk
• A monthly forum lets the users of Maths High-Performance Computing systems discuss the state and near future of these systems with the HPC team
• You can contact the local computer officers at help@maths.cam.ac.uk with questions about scientific computing
• Announcements related to Maths HPC systems are sent to the moderated mailing list maths-hpc-announce. Subscription to this list is mandatory (and automatic) for everyone with an active Swirles/Fawcett account. For everyone else, it is possible to sign up for these announcements by subscribing to the list maths-hpc-announce-extra (Sympa link)

Courses/Training

• Scientific Computing courses run by the University Computing Service. Free for staff and students Much of the course notes are available online by following links

Facilities

• Cambridge University HPC (High Performance Computing) Service for anything from large parallel jobs to small serial jobs

Archives / Repository

• Apollo is the Cambridge University institutional repository, available for the deposit/archiving of research output and other scholarly content