Events

New Horizons in Materials Modelling

Published: 6 Dec 2018, 11:10 a.m. Revised: 17 Dec 2018, 12:11 p.m.
Author: Gillian Sinclair

10:00 - 17:00 on Friday 4th Jan 2019 at the Bar Convent, York

This annual one-day meeting in the heart of York brings together materials modelling researchers to discuss the latest developments in theory, algorithms and applications.

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AWS - HPC and HTC Day

Published: 6 Dec 2018, 11:09 a.m. Revised: 6 Dec 2018, 11:30 a.m.
Author: Gillian Sinclair

10:00 – 17:00 on Tuesday 11th Dec 2018
University of Manchester

Many N8 researchers are now turning to the Cloud to meet their on-demand or extra compute needs. The former N8 HPC Technical Management Group recognised this need and made preliminary investigations into the use of Cloud by researchers. Separately, Research IT at the University of Manchester has been working with AWS to make it simple for users of their Condor pool to burst out into AWS and making the most of "spot market" prices for cost-effective compute resources. At the same time the University of Liverpool has also been using AWS for bursting HPC.

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