Access to computational services

Research Computational Services

iSolutions provides High Performance Computational facilities on a number of different platforms which are mainly targeted at members of the University involved in research activities.

Postgraduates and staff are eligible to use the Iridis compute cluster, which is a very large cluster of ~8000 processor-cores running Linux predominately . Self registration is not possible for this service. Access to Iridis is by a web application form.

Form: iSolutions - Iridis Account Application Form

The Lyceum Teaching Cluster

Taught postgraduate and undergraduate students can access the Lyceum teaching cluster for project work if their computational needs cannot be met on the university public workstations. In order for us to assess that the use of these services are a genuine requirement of your course, you will need to ask your course tutor to send an email message to the ServiceLine stating who the request is for (your username), and why you need access. You will normally be able to access the service within two working days of the request being received. If you cannot access the service within this time, please check that your course tutor has made the request before raising a query with iSolutions.

Alternatively, course tutors can email ServiceLine with a request for access for a list of one or more students.

Staff and postgrads should use the much larger Iridis cluster for their own research, but if you do need to access Lyceum in connection with student project supervision the following procedure will subscribe you to this service:

  1. Access Subscribe and select Sign in to manage your existing account.
  2. Log in using your iSolutions username and password.
  3. Select Services for staff and researchers.
  4. From the Additional services for staff and research postgraduates only section, select Subscribe to computational servers (ignore the references to the older Solaris and Linuxcompute services which were superceeded by Lyceum).
  5. Access to these services will normally be available within one hour.