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• 24 April 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 24-04-2018: Includes Cray Webinar, RSE18 conference calls and training opportunities
• 17 April 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 17-04-2018: Includes HPC Europa Webinar, RSE18 conference calls and training opportunities
• 10 April 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 10-04-2018: Includes HPC Europa Webinar, ARCHER Champions and training opportunities
• 03 April 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 03-04-2018: Includes HPC Europa Webinar, ARCHER Champions and training opportunities
• 27 March 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 27-03-2018: Includes EASC Early Bird Reminder, ARCHER Champions, Webinar and training opportunities
• 20 March 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 20-03-2018: Includes Change to RDF Maintenance, ARCHER Champions, Webinar and training opportunities
• 13 March 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 13-03-2018: Includes Change to RDF Maintenance, Webinar and training opportunities
• 6 March 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 06-03-2018: Includes Change to RDF Maintenance, Default module changes for Git, Curl and OpenSSL, ARCHER Champions, Webinar and training opportunities
• 27 February 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 27-02-2018: Includes RDF Maintenance, Note on Removal of Modules, RAP Calls, Porting and Optimisation Course, Virtual Tutorial and training opportunities
• 20 February 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 20-02-2018: Includes Note on Removal of Modules, Summer of HPC places, Porting and Optimisation Course, PRACE Preparatory Access Call, EASC 2018 Call for Posters, HPC Europa 3, ARCHER 2017 User Survey, Virtual Tutorial and training opportunities
• 14 February 2018,  Modules to be removed on or after 28th February 2018
  
• 13 February 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 13-02-2018: Includes Object-Oriented programming with Fortran Course, PRACE Preparatory Access Call, EASC 2018 Call for Posters, HPC Europa 3, ARCHER 2017 User Survey, Virtual Tutorial and training opportunities
• 06 February 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 06-02-2018: Includes EASC 2018 Call for Posters, HPC Europa 3, ARCHER 2017 User Survey, Virtual Tutorial and training opportunities
• 30 January 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 30-01-2018: Includes Update on ARCHER 2017 User Survey, Summer of HPC, Supercomputing MOOC and training opportunities

Previous News Items

• 24 January 2018,  ARCHER Annual Survey 2017 and prize draw. Share your feedback on the ARCHER service.
  
• 23 January 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 23-01-2018: Includes Update on Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities, Virtual Tutorial, Supercomputing MOOC and training opportunities
• 16 January 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 16-01-2018: Includes Update on Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities, Supercomputing MOOC and training opportunities
• 09 January 2018,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 09-01-2018: Includes Update on Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities, Supercomputing MOOC and training opportunities
• 19 December 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 19-12-2017: Includes Supercomputing MOOC and 2018 Training opportunities
• 12 December 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 12-12-2017: Includes PASC18 Call for Submissions and CP2K User Meeting
• 05 December 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 05-12-2017: Includes CP2K User Meeting, Final EASC CFP and training opportunities
• 28 November 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 28-11-2017: Includes CP2K User Meeting, Diversity tutorial and training opportunities
• 21 November 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 21-11-2017: Includes Full Maintenance reminder and training opportunities
• 14 November 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 14-11-2017: Includes EASC Conference Update, HPC-Europa, and training opportunities
• 07 November 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 07-11-2017: Includes ARCHER Image and Video Competition results and training opportunities
• 31 October 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 31-10-2017: Includes Women in HPC @ SC17, HPC-UK, Performance tutorial and training opportunities
• 24 October 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 24-10-2017
• 17 October 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 17-10-2017
• 10 October 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 10-10-2017
• 03 October 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 03-10-2017
• 26 September 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 26-09-2017
• 19 September 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 19-09-2017
• 12 September 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 12-09-2017
• 05 September 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 05-09-2017
• 28 August 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 28-8-2017
• 22 August 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 22-8-2017
• 21 August 2017,  Call for RAP Applications: ARCHER and ARCHER Top-up
• 15 August 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 15-8-2017
• 9 August 2017,  Changes to Modules on 9th August 2017
• 8 August 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 08-8-2017
• 1 August 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunites 01-8-2017: Includes changes to default modules, new data science scholarship, mpi quiz webinar and other training opportunities
• 25 July 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 25-7-2017
• 25 July 2017,  Changes to Module defaults 9th August 2017
• 18 July 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 18-7-2017
• 11 July 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 11-7-2017
• 04 July 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 04-7-2017
• 29 June 2017,  Planning for ARCHER 2
• 27 June 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 27-6-2017
• 20 June 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 20-6-2017
• 14 June 2017,  Modules to be removed on 28th June 2017
• 13 June 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 13-6-2017
• 12 June 2017,  EPSRC Survey for ARCHER 2
• 06 June 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 06-6-2017
• 30 May 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 30-5-2017
• 23 May 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 23-5-2017
• 16 May 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 16-5-2017
• 9 May 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 9-5-2017
• 2 May 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 2-5-2017
• 25 April 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 25-4-2017
• 31 March 2017,  ARCHER KNL Performance Reports: Comparison of KNL performance to standard ARCHER nodes for a range of different applications
• 31 March 2017,  ARCHER Benchmarks - Initial Application Benchmark Results: Initial results for the new ARCHER benchmarks developed by the ARCHER CSE team with major user groups
• 30 March 2017,  Competition launched to find the best uses of ARCHER HPC service: Ten prizes of £3,000 each are on offer to post-doctoral and PhD students currently using the ARCHER national HPC service.
• 20 March 2017,  Details on PRACE 2 and Call 14
  
• 6 March 2017,  Details on the Submission process for the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award
  
• 9 January 2017,  ARCHER Annual Survey 2016 and prize draw. Share your feedback on the ARCHER service.
  
• 14 December 2016,  The 2016 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures will be given by ARCHER user Prof. Saiful Islam of the University of Bath.
• 15 November 2016,  Women in HPC #WHPC receives three Honours in 2016 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards
• 19 October 2016,  New 12 node KNL system will be available as planned on 20th October 2016
• 14 October 2016,  New 12 node KNL system will be available to existing users on 20th October 2016
• 19 September 2016,  ARCHER Image Competition 2016: prize for the best image from ARCHER enabled research. Open to all.
• 7 September 2016,  Modules default changes and removals on 21 Sep 2016
  
• 01 September 2016,  EPSRC-Cray Xeon-Phi Platform
  
• 10 August 2016,  Modules to be removed on or after 10th August 2016
  
• 08 March 2016,  Delayed changes to default modules on 9th March 2016
  
• 02 February 2016,  Delayed changes to default modules on 10th February 2016
  
• 27 January 2016,  Changes to default modules on 10th February 2016
  
• 19 January 2016,  Digital dinosaurs put bite-sized supercomputer through its paces
  
• 18 January 2016,  OpenSSH Vulnerability, securing access to ARCHER
  
• 6 January 2016,  ARCHER Annual Survey 2015 and prize draw
  
• 5 January 2016,  ARCHER Image Competition 2015: Gallery of Images
  
• 21 December 2015,  Open Access to the Research Data Facility (RDF).
• 21 December 2015,  ARCHER RAP: Winter 2015 Calls - Access to ARCHER resources.
• 10 December 2015,  Developing the EPSRC and NERC science case for future capital funding Please complete this survey to help secure investment in HPC in the UK
• 25 November 2015,  Modules to be removed during Maintenance Session on 9 Dec 2015
• 12 November 2015,  ARCHER Operating System upgraded - Recompile of applications may be needed.
• 28 October 2015,  Modules to be removed during upgrade on 11 Nov 2015
• 22 September 2015,  Changes to default Python environment on ARCHER
• 1 September 2015,  Closing of v01 project - 9th September 2015
• 17 August 2015,  UK-RDF Data Analytic Cluster now available
• 5 August 2015,  Changes to ARCHER Python Environment
• 3 August 2015,  ARCHER Impact Award Competition 2015: prize for the best case study demonstrating the Impact of ARCHER enabled research.
  Open to all with additional award for early career research.
• 3 August 2015,  ARCHER Image Competition 2015: prize for the best image from ARCHER enabled research. Open to all.
• 24 July 2015,  ARCHER Image Competition 2015: launch coming soon.
• 25 June 2015,  ARCHER RAP: Summer 2015 Calls
• 25 June 2015,  ARCHER Leadership Project Call
• 16 June 2015,  Module Removals on 24 June 2015
• 16 June 2015,  RCUK Survey: Understanding our HPC Experience and Skillsets
• 15 April 2015,  Changes to Default Modules on 22 April 2015
• 7 April 2015,  Delayed Changes to Default Modules on 8 April 2015
• 25 March 2015,  Changes to Default Modules on 8 April 2015
• 04 March 2015,  Changes to Modules on 25 March 2015
• 10 February 2015,  New SAFE Feature: Institutional Logon
• 10 February 2015,  RDF Expansion: Details and Timeline of the Expansion.
• 28 January 2015,  Computer Weekly photostory about ARCHER
• 7 January 2015,  ARCHER calendar 2015: Created from the fabulous images submitted in the ARCHER Image Competition 2014.
• 5 January 2015,  Call for ARCHER Leadership Projects now open
• 23 December 2014,  ARCHER White Papers now available: Power Monitoring, Parallel IO and Python Import Scaling
• 8 December 2014,  ARCHER Annual Survey 2014 and prize draw
• 31 October 2014,  ARCHER Phase2 Upgrade Timeline for upcoming hardware upgrade.
• 14 October 2014,  Story of HECToR: Research aims to examine full impact of UK supercomputer HECToR
• 1 October 2014,  ARCHER Image Competition 2014: prize for the best image from ARCHER enabled research. Open to all.
• 30 September 2014,  Changes to Modules on 8 October 2014
• 10 September 2014,  HPC Scientific Advisory Committee request comments and suggestions from the ARCHER user community.
• 5 August 2014,  Proposals are invited for the 3rd Embedded CSE Call. Deadline: 4pm Tue 16 September 2014
• 30 July 2014,  ARCHER Resource Allocation Panel Call is now open. 
  Deadline for applications 16:00 15 September 2014.
• 19 June 2014,  Invitation to the ARCHER Phase2 meeting 10th July 2014 
• 27 May 2014,  EPSRC ARCHER upgrade questionnaire. Deadline: 30 June 2014
• 23 May 2014,  Planned Changes to Module Defaults: 11 June 2014
• 23 April 2014,  ARCHER Newsletter: TechForum Webinar on parallel IO, uncoming training, module default changes
• 8 April 2014,  Changes to some default software modules on 9 April 2014
• 8 April 2014,  Upgrade of ARCHER operating system on 9 April 2014
• 1 April 2014,  Proposals are invited for the 2nd Embedded CSE Call. Deadline: 4pm Tue 13 May 2014 
• 19 March 2014,  Upcoming ARCHER maintenance plans Mar & Apr 2014 
• 12 March 2014,  ARCHER Resource Allocation Panel Top-up call is now open. 
  Deadline for applications 16:00 14 May 2014.
• 19 February 2014,  Invitation to the ARCHER Launch Event 25th March 2014 
• 23 December 2013,  Upcoming ARCHER maintenance plans Jan & Feb 2014 
• 20 December 2013,  ARCHER Festive Support Arrangments 
• 16 December 2013,  ARCHER Now Open for Full User Service 
• 5 December 2013,  ARCHER Software Catalogue is now online 
• 26 November 2013,  Documentation on scientific software packages is now available 
• 25 November 2013,  Proposals are invited for the Embedded CSE Call. Deadline: 4pm Tue 14 January 2014 
• 14 November 2013,  Upcoming ARCHER training courses: registration is now open 
• 13 November 2013,  ARCHER opened for early user service at 09:00 on 13 November 2013.  
• 4 November 2013,  ARCHER User Guide and Best Practice Guide now available
• 1 November 2013,  ARCHER Science Support Team is now operational
• 11 October 2013,  ARCHER Resource Allocation Panel Top-up call is now open. 
  Deadline for applications 16:00 6 January 2014.
• 10 October 2013,  Cray XC30 presentation now online
• 10 October 2013,  HECToR to ARCHER transition presentation now online
• 8 October 2013,  ARCHER Resource Allocation Panel Call is now open. 
  Deadline for applications 16:00 6 January 2014.
• 3 October 2013,  Early Access for Selected HECToR Consortia