DisCo - The Distributed Computing Group at Daresbury Laboratory

Welcome to the Distributed Computing homepage The Distributed Computing Group provides the UK's HPC community with objective analysis and advice on HPC technologies (processors, servers, interconnects, middleware, storage, visualisation etc), and the companies which offer such services, along with the procurement, installation and exploitation of capacity HPC facilities. A variety of workshops and training courses are provided including the long running annual Machine Evaluation Workshops. If you want to obtain an account on any of our benchmarking facilities please follow this link. NEW! Follow us on Twitter.
What's new? 08/12/2009: Report on MEW20 breakout session - open-source alternatives to commercial scientific software 08/12/2009: Materials of the 20th Machine Evaluation Workshop available on-line 27/11/2009: Report on power usage of Nehalem/Tesla servers 25/09/2009: Materials of the NVidia workshop available on-line 28/08/2009: 20th Machine Evaluation Workshop 1 & 2 December 2009 11/08/2009: NVIDIA GPU and CUDA Training Workshop, 15-16 September 2009. 08/07/2009: Materials of the GPU Accelerators and Hybrid Computing Workshop available on-line. 12/05/2009: GPU Accelerators and Hybrid Computing Workshop, 7-9 July 2009. 09/04/2009: Intel Nehalem report. 31/03/2009: Intel Nehalem benchmarks were made available through Disco Benchmarking Database. 18/03/2009: Two-day training course on programming the Cell processor, 28 & 29 April 2009. 28/01/2009: The MEW19 presentations. 14/01/2009: Video stream of Brice Goglin's seminar on OpenMX.

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