Regional/Tier 2 Compute Platform Developments

• N8-HPC: True HPC machine — 5000 cores
  • Approaching EOL
  • Refresh (to EPSRC) failed — option for N8 institutions to fund new platform being developed. . .
• Tier-2/Regional successes:
  • Cambridge: KNL; Oxford: GPUs; Bristol: ARM
  • EPCC, HPC Midlands: x86
  • UCL: Materials (x86)
• TMG aiming to devel. N8-wide support community (RSEs, sysadmins)
• N8 access to above Tier-2 clusters — part of each available to all UK HE researchers. . . tiny!