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University HPC Documentation

Welcome to your support documentation for High Performance Computing at Newcastle University.

HPC Service News & Changes - all news articles, recent changes and upcoming work on our HPC facilities are published in the News & Changes section.

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.

News & Changes

We aim to keep you update with service related news and changes to the capabilities of our HPC facilities. Any system news (new software, policy changes, new features, planned work) will be published in the News & Changes section.


Getting Started

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.


Advanced Topics

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? What software is available and how do I use it?


Training & Workshops

The RSE team offer bespoke workshops for introductory Linux/unix and HPC training.


FAQ's

A collection of our most commonly asked questions and answers.


Policies & Procedures

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.


Using the Wiki

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.


Contact Us & Get Help

How to contact the Research Software Engineering team for further information and how to request help on specific HPC issues.


Recent Changes

These pages have recently been changed or updated:

External HPC Facilities2026/06/26 10:46John Snowdon
Acceptable Use2026/06/24 15:38Carol Booth