National supercomputer advice

Advice on accessing the national supercomputer and preparing your data for use with the supercomputer.

Description

ARCHER is the UKs national supercomputer service that is available for paid access by St Andrews researchers.  Herbert Fruchtl can assist any researcher with applying for access to ARCHER and also assist in preparing their application for ARCHER, specifically scaling the application to run in the ARCHER parallel setup.

Where do I go for help?

Herbert can assist with access and application support. 

Service location

ARCHER website

Are there limits to the service?

Herbert will not re-write your application in preparedness for ARCHER but can offer advise on how best to prepare the application/data.

Expertise level required to use this service

Researchers will need to understand whether they code will scale in parallel.