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 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