EPCC Tier 2 HPC Service

EPCC是爱丁堡大学的超级计算机中心。在我们26年的历史中，EPCC在为学术和工业研究人员提供超级计算机服务方面拥有丰富的经验。我们目前运行的是英国国家超级计算机Archer，用于模拟新材料、设计更高效的发动机和调查气候变化。这项提议是用额外的计算节点来增强现有的超级计算机，并增加大量的下一代加速器。超级计算机的设计正在经历一个变革期，加速器在提供更快的超级计算机的同时使用更少的电力变得越来越重要。这个增强的系统将有助于英国各地的研究人员准备他们的计算机程序，以便有效地利用ARCHER之后的未来国家超级计算机系统。随着计算机变得更加强大，它们产生的数据量也在不断增加。管理和分析这些数据对于帮助研究人员做出新的科学发现非常重要。该提案还包括增加EPCC大型数据存储设施的规模。这将允许研究人员存储他们的数据，与其他人共享，在不同的超级计算机之间移动，并做出将改善社会和人民生活的新发现。将有一些这样的中型超级计算机与现有的国家超级计算机Archer一起获得资金。它们将具有不同的特点，因此对于不同的研究问题将是有用的。重要的是，这些超级计算机协同工作，为每个人提供最大利益。我们将与所有其他成功的提案合作，为所有不同的超级计算机提供连贯的服务。我们的超级计算机上的大部分时间将免费提供给来自英国各地的研究人员。我们将与其他成功的提案合作，确保研究人员能够访问最合适的系统/此外，我们还开发了一个基于WE的门户网站，使用户更容易访问不同的系统。作为我们提案的一部分，我们将与所有其他成功的提案合作，使他们能够完全免费使用我们的基于网络的门户网站。

EPCC is the supercomputer centre at the University of Edinburgh. Throughout our 26-year history, EPCC has significant experience of running supercomputer services for both academic and industrial researchers. We currently run the UK's national supercomputer, ARCHER, that is used for modelling new materials, designing more efficient engines and investigating climate change.This proposal is to enhance an existing supercomputer with additional compute nodes, and to add a significant amount of next generation accelerators. The design of supercomputers is going through a period of change and accelerators are becoming increasingly important to provide faster supercomputers while using less electricity. This enhanced system will be useful for researchers across the UK to prepare their computer programmes to make effective use of future national supercomputer systems after ARCHER.As computers become more powerful, they generate ever-increasing amounts of data. Managing and analysing this data is very important to help researchers make new scientific discoveries. This proposal also includes increasing the size of the large data storage facility at EPCC. This will allow researchers to store their data, share it with other people, move it between different supercomputers, and make new discoveries that will improve society and people's lives.There will be a number of these medium-size supercomputers funded alongside the existing national supercomputer, ARCHER. These will have different features and so will be useful for different research problems. It is important that these supercomputers work together to provide maximum benefits for everyone. We will work with all the other successful proposals to provide a coherent service across all the different supercomputers. Most of the time on our supercomputer will be freely available for researchers from throughout the UK. We will work together with the other successful proposals to ensure that researchers can get access to the most appropriate system/ In addition, we have developed a we.-based portal that makes it easier for users to access the different systems. As part of our proposal, we will work with all the other successful proposals so that they can use our web-based portal completely free of cost.