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 […]
We are now halfway through the planned works on the datacentre and on the whole everything is currently going as planned. Thankfully the weather has been fairly good to work […]
For users of ARCCA services, December is an important month due to our datacentre having been mostly shutdown whilst work is performed on the cooling infrastructure and other internal changes. […]
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 […]
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened 25 years ago and I thought a symbolic look at how we try and break our own walls would be quite appropriate. Creating […]
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 […]
If you have read the previous posts you will see that they can be quite technical and a couple of readers have mentioned they would like to read about something […]
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 […]