This is a project which is currently making use of HPC facilities at Newcastle University. It is active.
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The calculations are computational modelling of materials. The software is essentially a linear algebra solver, so matrix multiplication and so on.
The capacity need not be extensive. The module has currently 11 students enrolled. During the workshops the calculations generally only take a few minutes to complete on a small number of processes, so reserving one or two nodes for these timetabled sessions would be sufficient, I believe. The students have fortnightly, 3-hour computer workshops. The module is assessed by the students working on a mini project, and the students would be working on these calculations outside the timetabled workshops. Provided that there is capacity in the general queue, that would probably be okay, but ideally it would be helpful to have some dedicated resource that could be restricted to specific, pre-agreed times.
The students will be primarily using a piece of research software already installed and being used on Rocket. They will also be using periferal software mainly including jmol, gnuplot and python scripts (the students will not be being asked to write code). The students will need to be able to access Rocket throughout semester 2, and will need an X11-style route (which I expect to be via the general unix server).