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Add Stanage, Remove ShARC & Remove purchasing HPC info #720

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion pages/collaboration/activities/activities.md
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and cloud-based facilities.

Locally, we assist IT Services in supporting users on the University's HPC clusters,
Bessemer and ShARC. We are major contributors to their documentation
Stanage and Bessemer. We are major contributors to their documentation
system and can help you with software installation, training and advice
on how to make maximum use out of these HPC resources that are free to
all members of The University of Sheffield.
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This call is open to all research staff but with some conditions imposed by the Tier 2 facilities. Postdocs must have at least one year left on their contract (else should apply via their PI). Doctoral research students must have support from their supervisor.

This call is specifically to facilitate uptake in the use of the Tier 2 resources. Collaborative support for use of the University HPC resources (e.g. Bessemer, ShARC) is within remit providing there is an ambition to later migrate workflows to the Tier 2 systems.
This call is specifically to facilitate uptake in the use of the Tier 2 resources. Collaborative support for use of the University HPC resources (e.g. Stanage, Bessemer) is within remit providing there is an ambition to later migrate workflows to the Tier 2 systems.

This call will fund upto £5,000 of embedded RSE time which is roughly 12 days of RSE support. There is no cash alternative available. Funding must be spent on embedded RSE time. As part of the review of your application a suitable member of the RSE team will be allocated to your project so you do not have to identify a particular team member.

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The University of Sheffield provides staff and students with access to [four High Performance Computing (HPC) systems](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/):

* **Bessemer**: run by TUOS. Optimised for high-throughput of single-node jobs. Typically 40 cores per node. Newer than ShARC.
* **ShARC**: run by TUOS. Optimised for high-performance, multi-node jobs. Typically 16 cores per node but has very high bandwidth, low latency network connections between nodes.
* **Bede**: a GPU HPC cluster run by the N8 consortium (inc. TUOS). Designed to accommodate multi-node, multi-GPU jobs inc. machine learning/deep learning workflows.
* **JADE**: a GPU HPC cluster run by a different consortium (inc. TUOS). Designed to accommodate single-node, multi-GPU jobs inc. machine learning/deep learning workflows.
* **JADE 2**: a successor to JADE
* [**Stanage**](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/stanage/index.html): run by TUoS. Optimised for high-performance, multi-node jobs. Typically 64 cores per node but has very high bandwidth, low latency network connections between nodes. Includes H100 and A100 GPUs.
* [**Bessemer**](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/index.html): run by TUoS. Optimised for high-throughput of single-node jobs. Typically 40 cores per node. Includes V100 GPUs.
* [**Bede**](https://bede-documentation.readthedocs.io/): a GPU HPC cluster run by the N8 consortium (inc. TUoS). Designed to accommodate multi-node, multi-GPU jobs inc. machine learning/deep learning workflows.
* [**JADE 2**](https://docs.jade.ac.uk/): a GPU HPC cluster run by a different consortium (inc. TUoS). Designed to accommodate single-node, multi-GPU jobs for machine learning and molecular dynamics workflows.

All TUOS academics and researchers can request free access to Bessemer and SHARC. Research students need their supervisors to make requests.
All TUoS academics and researchers can request free access to Stanage and Bessemer. Research students need their supervisors to make requests.

There are slightly more formal application processes for Bede, JADE and JADE 2 - see the above link for details.
There are slightly more formal application processes for Bede and JADE 2 - see the [HPC Documentation for details](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/other-uk-hpc-resources.html#university-of-sheffield-directly-affliated-hpc-systems).

## Research data storage

TUOS [offers each PI 10TB of free storage](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research-storage),
which can optionally be made available to the two TUOS-managed HPC systems.
TUoS [offers each PI 10TB of free storage](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research-storage),
which can optionally be made available to the two TUoS-managed HPC systems.
Additional storage can be purchased from IT Services.

### Access to dedicated HPC resources

The RSE group has access to a set of private nodes in Bessemer and ShARC (GPU and big memory nodes) which we use for
The RSE group and Department of Computer Science has access to a set of private nodes in Bessemer (GPU and big memory nodes) which we use for
delivering HPC projects and occasionally to provide access for collaborators.
If you require HPC resources beyond what is provided for free then we have prepared the following [HPC purchasing guidance](hpc).

### JADE Tier 2 GPU cluster

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* Download MATLAB from IT Services' [software download site](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/software/)
* MATLAB documentation for the University's High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters:
* [Stanage](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/stanage/software/apps/matlab.html)
* [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/apps/matlab.html)
* [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/apps/matlab.html)

NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
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and for a variety of hardware platforms.
The University has a full site license for all staff and students.

Documentation for the NAG Library on the University's [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/libs/nag-libs.html) high-performance computing (HPC) cluster.

## NAG Fortran Compiler

According to the [2015 Fortran UK compiler comparisons](https://www.fortran.uk/fortran-compiler-comparisons/intellinux-fortran-compiler-diagnostic-capabilities/),
the NAG compiler was one of the best diagnostic compilers available.
The University has a full site license for all staff and students.

Documentation for the NAG Fortran compiler on the University's [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/development/nag.html) HPC cluster.

## Downloading NAG software and requesting a license

See the [University of Sheffield's NAG Page](https://www.nag.co.uk/edu/uk/sheffield).
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one of the dominant languages for statistics and data science.

* The documentation for R on the University's High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters:
* Standard build on [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/apps/R.html)
* Standard build [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/apps/R.html)
* Optimised build on [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/apps/intel_r.html)
* [Stanage](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/stanage/software/apps/R.html)
* [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/apps/R.html)
* [A gentle introduction to R](https://github.com/RSE-Sheffield/Code_cafe/tree/master/First_steps_with_R) -
a short course we deliver as part of our [Code Cafe](http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5981)

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* Best for compute intensive research.
* Small number of network licenses. Need to be connected to the
network at compile time
* Installed on the University's [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/development/icc_ifort.html)
and [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/development/intel_compilers.html) HPC clusters.
* Installed on the University's [Stanage](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/stanage/software/development/icc_ifort.html)
and [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/development/intel_compilers.html) HPC clusters.
* Can be used as a mex compiler for MATLAB (Windows only)
* [Download](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/software/) (University staff and students only)
* [Vendor Website](https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-compilers)
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* Best for GPU development
* Small number of network licenses. Need to be connected to the
network at compile time
* Installed on the University's [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/development/pgi.html)
and [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/development/pgi.html) HPC clusters.
* Installed on the University's [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/development/pgi.html) HPC cluster.
* [Vendor Website](https://www.pgroup.com/)

### Silverfrost Fortran Compiler (Windows only)
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The University of Sheffield has a site license that allows all staff and students to use it on University and personal machines.

* [Download Maple](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/software/) - Maple is available for Sheffield University staff and students from the IT Services download site
* The documentation for Maple on the University's [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/apps/maple.html) High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster
* [High Performance Computing with Maple, Part 1](/blog/hpc-maple-1/) - A detailed tutorial on how to use Maple with Sheffield's HPC cluster


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* [Download Mathematica](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/software/) - Mathematica is available for Sheffield University staff and students from the IT Services download site
* The documentation for Mathematica on the University's High Performance Computing clusters:
* [Stanage](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/stanage/software/apps/mathematica.html)
* [Bessemer](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/bessemer/software/apps/mathematica.html)
* [ShARC](https://docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/sharc/software/apps/mathematica.html)
* [Mathematica Code Cafe](https://github.com/RSE-Sheffield/Code_cafe/tree/master/WolframCodeCafe) - Basic training for Mathematica delivered as part of our Code Cafe series

![](/assets/images/Mathematica.png)