A researcher has recently been trying to get to grips with meshes where they have scanned in some materials and would like to model this within COMSOL (multi-physics modelling package). […]
We recently installed new nodes into our supercomputer. As part of the process we have to run tests to assess the new nodes. Since this was an extension to the […]
Anyone who might have read earlier posts might have come across previous post on Galaxy. This used DRMAA to submit jobs when using a PBS Pro as a job scheduler. […]
Another month has passed and we have been very busy in ARCCA at Cardiff University with installation of the new hardware and installing new services. These are a few of […]
UPDATE - 20/12/2014 - Work still progressing on Raven and access will be given over the weekend of the 20th/21st with full service restored on Monday 22nd December. Since the […]
Recently we had a user report a problem where they had managed to start copying the complete filesystem of a compute node into their home directory. Fortunately for us we […]
Within the ARCCA team we are investigating ways we can open up high-performance computing (HPC) to a wider audience. I should add this is not just an issue within ARCCA […]
ARCCA have recently been helping a research group at Cardiff University to benchmark their code. The code was based on Python and had many options to perform FFT analysis. One […]
Recently we have helped researchers wanting to perform a large analysis of data that was in an Excel spreadsheet. We had over 70,000 rows and around 20 columns which required […]