High Performance Computing News

31/7/2009 - Major changes to HPC services

2009 continues to be a year of dramatic change to HPC services within the university, which continue Southampton's pioneering tradition in the application of HPC to produce world-leading research. The beginning of the year saw the introduction of a pilot service for Undergraduate and MSc project work on a new teaching cluster Lyceum. This powerful new facility has enabled our students to tackle realistic sized problems, giving them a taste of the type of project they might expect to encounter later in their industrial or research careers. 

With Lyceum established, we have been able to retire our older Solaris and Linuxcompute services at the end of the academic year.

The landmark development of the year will be the introduction of a new World-class  research cluster, Iridis 3. Research at the University of Southampton is getting a massive boost with the purchase of this new million pound supercomputer, capable of over 74 trillion calculations per second. The transition from the current Iridis 2 and Linux Research Services to the new system will be taking place over the Autumn, with infrastructure preparations already well under way. See the Iridis news page for more details on the developments.

31/8/2006 -  web page updates

The HPCweb pages have been republished at this new location as the old iSolutions website will be shutdown latter today. Some minor revisions have been made to the content, but the scale of the changes has been limited by the need to ensure that the basic information is still available. A more comprehensive revision of content will occur over the next few months.

31/8/2006 - Iridis still growing

The Iridis cluster now contains well over 1000 processor cores - see the Iridis news page for more details.