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• 25 July 2017,  ARCHER News and Training Opportunities 25-7-2017
• 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

Previous News Items

• 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