{"id":21,"date":"2016-10-05T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T09:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/?p=21"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:59:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:59:38","slug":"21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/2016\/10\/05\/21\/","title":{"rendered":"About The HPC Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Project Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The business case, project management and eventual service management are\u00a0being carried out by the IT Service.\u00a0This work has taken place in close consultation with the university&#8217;s research communities, via the HPC Steering group, and via a series of open consultation events that took place in Summer 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Project&#8217;s Main Deliverables are:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Purchase of High Performance Computing equipment, both hardware and software<\/li>\n<li>Appointment to two new posts (Research Computing Specialist, HPC System Administrator)<\/li>\n<li>Establishment of a University-wide HPC service, designed to fully realise the potential benefits of the above investments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>to quote the initial business case:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221;\u00a0High performance computing is the practice of aggregating very large numbers of computers (often many thousands) to deliver much higher performance than one could get out of a typical desktop computer or workstation.\u00a0 This is done to solve large problems in science, engineering, medicine, and, increasingly in the social sciences and humanities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The effective use of HPC systems can reduce the solution time of really big computing problems from months or years to hours or days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HPC is often used for modelling and solving highly complex research problems, and a lot of research that would have been carried out in the past using laboratory experiments is now carried out computationally, using models run on HPC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Moreover, the power and complexity of HPC applications and technology have given rise to the multi-disciplinary field of expertise in their use: Computational Science, establishing itself as the \u201cthird pillar\u201d of scientific enquiry, alongside theory and experiment. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We believe that the best way to provide and manage such a resource at the institutional level is via a centrally-delivered service, free at point-of-use to all university researchers, backed up by specialist support and training.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Requirements-gathering took place during early\u00a0Summer 2016, to be followed by recruitment, procurement and installation during late 2016 and early 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Service launch is slated for May-July 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project Team The business case, project management and eventual service management are\u00a0being carried out by the IT Service.\u00a0This work has taken place in close consultation with the university&#8217;s research communities, via the HPC Steering group, and via a series of open consultation events that took place in Summer 2016. The Project&#8217;s Main Deliverables are:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/hpc-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}