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UK HPC User Documentation Sites

This is an incomplete list of links to public user documentation pages for a number of HPC sites, including many UK-based Tier 3 systems. If you would like to propose changes to this list, please open a pull request or contact the project team.

The motivations behind making this information available in one place are as follows:

  • Access to HPC by “non-traditional” users, such as those in the arts, humanities, and culture (AH&C) area starts with interactions with local sites, which are getting harder to discover thanks to the growth of university intranets;
  • Often, the user documentation implicitly or explicitly describes software that is commonly used at that site, alongside useful insights gained from supporting that software;
  • To facilitate detecting trends in the provision of user-facing documentation, such as the prevalence (at the time of writing) of MkDocs as a static site generator.

This is custom search engine powered by Google. It is a full-text web search using Google's web index that is restricted to only show results from URLs with prefixes derived from the documentation sites listed below (with some inclusions and exclusions).

Try searching for “PyTorch” to find user guidance for running machine learning models on HPC sites in the UK, or search “A100” to see which sites currently advertise this GPU accelerator.

Implementation note

Every week, the links in this page are checked by a software called Lychee. If a broken link is found, an issue is automatically created on the repository containing the website sources.

HEIs (Tier 3)

Consortia (Tiers 2 and 1)

These are HPC sites that have some affiliation to more than one HEI, which include some of the Tier 2 sites.