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Welcome to your support documentation for High Performance Computing at Newcastle University.
June 2025
Dear Users, we are now in the 'Acceptance Testing' of the £2.5M Comet HPC system. At this critical period, the RSE-HPC team must prioritise this testing work and we apologise that this may mean we are unable to deal with your queries as quickly as we would like. Please bear with us, the introduction of Comet will lead to a great improvement in the HPC service we provide to you in the coming months.
The wiki is divided into several main categories:
Each category has several pages of documentation arranged around a common theme, if you don't know where to start looking then you can also use the search box at the top of the left menu bar which will search through all available documentation.
If you are new to HPC at Newcastle University, need to find out how to register, how to add the costs of these services to your project, connect to our facilities or write your first HPC job to run by Slurm, this is the best place to start.
Do you want to understand how to write a more efficient Slurm job? What do all of the different sbatch headers mean? Is there particular guidance needed for a specific application in order for it to run on the HPC? What other HPC facilities are there?
The RSE team offer bespoke workshops for introductory Linux/unix and HPC training.
A collection of our most commonly asked questions and answers.
You can find all of the agreed policies for use of the High Performance Computing facilities here. This includes topics such as terms of use, data retention and archiving and support agreements.
The University HPC facilities are supported by the Research Software Engineering team, but we welcome contributions from all Newcastle University HPC users. This section details how you can contribute to this wiki.
How to contact the Research Software Engineering team for further information and how to request help on specific HPC issues.
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