Dr Denis A Nicole
Dr Jacek Generowicz
Dr Ivan Wolton
In early 1994 the Research Councils purchased a large Cray T3D parallel
computer, containing 512 DEC Alpha processors as a national High Performance
Computing facility. Three centres, the University of Southampton, the Daresbury
Laboratory and the University
of Edinburgh, where the machine is sited, were awarded HPCI
Centre status to provide support in applications development and code
optimisation for the Grand Challenge consortia who use the machine.
The original T3D has since been supplemented in 1997 by a Cray T3E at Edinburgh and, in 1998,
by a T3E at Manchester forming
part of the new CSAR service.
The Southampton centre provided the technical benchmarking and
acceptance testing support for the procurement that led to the Manchester machine.
Our support for consortia ended in October 1999.
Consortia
The Southampton Centre supported six funded consortia:
When PPARC participated in the HPCI, we also supported:
Code development tools
We are supporting and promoting a variety of code
development tools to assist the Grand Challenge Community.
HPCI Conference
1998
EPSRC and the three national HPCI Centres jointly organised a conference
in Manchester from 12-14 January 1998 to mark the end of the first 3 years
of HPCI.
Workshops
Tuesday 5th May 1998
In conjunction with the T3D users group meeting at Southampton, we conducted afternoon tutorials on:
Wednesday 3rd April 1996
Workshop On
Computational
Techniques For Problems Involving Long Range Forces.
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