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Computational Facilities

IT Services for Research (ITSfR) offers a range of integrated facilities designed to meet the different computational and visualization needs of researchers across campus. This research infrastructure can accommodate serial, parallel, high memory and long-running jobs (and our staff can help determine which of these best fits your research). We ask that you acknowledge ITSfR support.

To get access, email its-research@manchester.ac.uk

High Performance Computing

Full details of high performance computing facilities are available here. Specific resources are:

• Computational Shared Facility

  • RedQueen part of the new shared facility

• Access & support to national & international high performance computing resources

• NGS - National Grid Service.

• NW-GRID - North West Grid.

High Throughput Computing

There are several Condor pools available for research computing work to complement the above services. Specific resources are

• ITS Condor pool

• EPS Condor Pool

• School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE) condor pool.

These are being integrated to appear as one service to the user.

Grid Computing

IT Services for Research hosts one of the four core data nodes for the National Grid Service. Together with e-Science North West Centre we also host part of the North West Grid resources. ITS also provides RA (registration authority) facilities for UK e-Science certificates. Full details here.

New Technologies and Experimental Services

IT Services for Research can provide exploratory access to novel and emerging technologies as they become available. Currently, such facilities include:

• Intel Nehalem
• AMD Istanbul

• nVidia Tesla & Fermi cards

Support

The IT Services for Research can support your computational research in many ways. Details of how you can seek that help can be found here.

Apply

Application details for any of the above facilities are available here.

Acknowledgment

Please reference IT Service for Research (formerly Research Computing Services) in any research journal or publication that requires citation of any author's work. The recognition of IT Services for Research support is important to ensure the sustainability of our services. The minimal content of a citation should include:

"The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance given by IT Services for Research (formerly Research Computing Services) at The University of Manchester, etc"