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Hartree Centre supercomputers to speed up potential Coronavirus treatment identification
The Hartree Centre team is working with the Folding@home project to help simulate potential treatments for patients who have contracted COVID-19.
Hartree Centre Webinars for Business
The Hartree Centre is launching a series of webinars to enable UK businesses to remotely explore how they can access our digital technologies and expertise to enhance productivity and innovation.
Hartree Centre hosts JADE-2 driving scientific breakthroughs
Newly funded supercomputing service JADE-2 will be hosted at the Hartree Centre.
LCR4 START programme launched to deliver £3.9M digital strategy support
A group of technology partners including the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Centre will deliver a new £3.9M initiative, enabling Liverpool City Region SMEs to unlock the business benefits of digital technologies.
Chris Skidmore visits the Hartree Centre
The Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation visited the Hartree Centre on 17 January 2020 find out more about how we’re using advanced digital technologies to enhance productivity.
Digital Manufacturing Success at Smart Factory Expo
The Hartree Centre shared its digital transformation success stories and opportunities at Smart Factory Expo, Liverpool, 13-14 Nov 2019.
Hartree Centre Senior Solutions Architect shortlisted for TechWomen100
Ardita Shkurti was shortlisted alongside Marisa Martin-Fernandez from STFC's Central Laser Facility.
Hartree Centre takes Intelligent Innovation workshops to Northern Ireland
We're taking the first steps to increase engagement with businesses in Northern Ireland.
Scafell Pike enhances mapping efficiency with Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey (OS) will use Hartree Centre supercomputer Scafell Pike to try to make mapping services more efficient.
Jack Dongarra visits the Hartree Centre
We were pleased to welcome Jack Dongarra to the STFC Hartree Centre this week to meet our researchers and discuss potential future collaborations in high performance computing (HPC) and extreme scale computing.
Chemistry & materials businesses in North West - we need you!
Help us to shape how new funding could provide digital and AI support for your business.
Siemens, Atos and Hartree Centre launch Industrial Digitalisation Accelerator (IDA)
Siemens, Atos and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre have launched an Industrial Digitalisation Accelerator (IDA) so businesses can explore Industry 4.0 technologies.
Hartree Centre creates first spin-out company Formeric Ltd
Formeric enables manufacturers and materials scientists to use the latest high performance technologies to accurately predict the behaviour and structure of liquid compounds.
Hartree Centre upgrade boosts Artificial Intelligence capability for UK industry projects
UK industry and research communities are set to benefit from unique new AI capabilities at the Hartree Centre that will allow industry to realise the potential of novel technologies.
Hartree Centre is one of the first NVIDIA AI Technology Centre partners in the UK
Alongside the University of Reading and the University of Edinburgh’s EPCC, the Hartree Centre is one of the first UK partners for the NVIDIA AI Technology Centre.
LCR 4.0 could generate £31m and 955 jobs over next three years
The STFC Hartree Centre is a partner in the LCR 4.0 project, which has generated 80 new jobs and £2.6m GVA to date.
Introducing our digital assets
A new catalogue describing our digital assets developed through the IROR programme is now available to download. Explore each asset and the benefits it will bring to your business.
LFRic | A new weather and climate modelling system for the Met Office
A new paper published in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing details the infrastructure of a next generation atmospheric model.
New paper published introducing a new strategy for materials simulation
A paper from IBM Research published in the high-impact Rev. Mod. Phys. journal introduces a new 'bottom-up' approach to materials design.
Science-industry-government collaboration wins initial support for Mersey Basin proposal
The Hartree Centre is a lead partner in a collaboration that has won £50,000 seed funding from the Government’s Industrial Strategy to help develop a full bid for up to £50 million.
Businesses show enthusiasm to adopt AI and data technologies and skills
Mid-term review of a Hartree Centre programme boosting industry adoption of AI and data driven technologies shows promising potential.
New collaboration brings quantum computing simulation capabilities
The collaboration with Atos will see the arrival of a Quantum Learning Machine, boosting the simulation capabilities of UK research and industry.
£7million to train next generation of data scientists
STFC Hartree Centre partners with a UK university to deliver a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) to empower the next generation of data scientists.
Introducing the Hartree Centre Self-Service Portal
The Customer Services Group launch a new interactive portal to improve knowledge-sharing, customer support and the latest system updates.
PRACE Summer of HPC 2019
The Hartree Centre is offering two summer work placement projects to late-stage undergraduates or masters students.
Hartree Centre at HPC Asia 2019
Staff from our High Performance Software Engineering group presented at HPC Asia 2019 held in Guangzhou, China.
New partnership with The Alan Turing Institute set to accelerate UK data science and artificial intelligence
The Alan Turing Institute and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre forge links between data science and artificial intelligence research and high-performance computing.
Hartree Centre at SC18
11-16 Nov 2018 | STFC exhibited at the world’s largest HPC conference in Dallas, Texas USA.
Success for Supercomputing, Science and You
Over 350 visitors of all ages attended the Supercomputing, Science and You! family access day.
Exploring early benefits of the Hartree Centre to UK industry and economy
An independent baseline impact evaluation of the Hartree Centre's first four years of operation has been published, exploring the early benefits of our work with industry.
Machine learning dialects | My summer placement at the Hartree Centre
One of our summer placement students, Daniel Whettam, shares his experiences at the Hartree Centre.
Identifying patterns in structural biology
Our new annotator tool pyResid will make it easier for researchers to identify relevant work in the academic literature.
Moving towards intelligent data
30 - 31 July 2018 | Explore how your business could be using its data more intelligently with experienced data scientists.
Sharing our work on an international stage | ISC High Performance 2018
The Hartree Centre team showcased our work through exhibitions and talks at the biggest supercomputing conference and exhibition in Europe.
New paper published using new tools for genome analysis to rapidly identify antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes
Supported by the Innovation Return on Research (IROR) programme, researchers at The Hartree Centre are looking at how we can apply novel algorithms to solve genomics problems.
Bringing together partners from the UK water industry
On 2nd May, the Hartree Centre was delighted to bring together researchers and delegates from UK organisations interested in water resource management to demonstrate our cognitive computing capabilities and the potential applications to industry.
Bull User group for eXtreme computing
Our Systems Architect, Colin Morey has been recently elected as President of the Bull user group, BUX.
Welcome to UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Sir Mark Walport marks the first day of UK Research and Innovation.
ActInSpace 2018
25 - 26 May 2018 | The Hartree Centre is providing digital and data based technical coaches for a global space hackathon.
Industry workshop demonstrates IROR research progress
On 22 February 2018 we hosted a workshop for industry collaborators and researchers to demonstrate progress made in the engineering and manufacturing streams of the IROR programme.
Stronger UK-US cooperation in big data will benefit businesses
US and British business expected to benefit from a newly signed collaboration agreement between leading research laboratories.
£4million to develop data handling techniques for industry
A £4million project will bring together experts from academia and industry to create new ways to extract useful information from large data sets.
Digital Catapult launches Machine Intelligence Garage
The Hartree Centre will be one of the facilities partnering in this new programme to drive machine learning innovation in the UK.
Alder Hey Children's Hospital launches "Alder Play" app developed with Hartree Centre cognitive experts
Alder Hey enhances patient care with a revolutionary digital approach to a child's stay in hospital.
Supporting the new UK National Biofilms Innovation Centre
This week a new National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) launches, with high performance computing support from the STFC Hartree Centre.
Landmark agreement between research and industry to harness HPC
High performance computing will power a new era in industrial product development in the UK, thanks to landmark research agreement.
ADDoPT bridges gap in organic crystal modelling and observation
A new collaboration catalysed by the ADDoPT project aims to deliver a step change in accuracy for models of organic & biochemical systems
Cancer Research UK visit
The Hartree Centre was delighted to welcome visitors from Cancer Research UK on 15th November 2017.
LCR 4.0 on track to transform future of manufacturing in Liverpool City Region
One year on since launch, LCR 4.0 has brought digitalisation and innovation support to almost 100 Liverpool City Region manufacturing businesses.
Making a splash at The Manufacturer Live 2017
14 - 17 November 2017 | The Hartree Centre spent four days exhibiting, speaking and hosting campus tours as part of this highly anticipated national event.
Hartree on tour | SC17 Recap
12-17 Nov 2017 | STFC exhibited at the world’s largest HPC conference in Denver, USA.
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
On 10 October 2017, 90 girls from local schools visited Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory sites for a day full of inspiration, innovative ideas and technical challenges.
Announcing the EuroEXA project for exascale computing
The Hartree Centre is a partner in new European exascale computing project EuroEXA.
Talking the talk on high performance computing
One week, five conferences, ten Hartree Centre team members…
Apply for free Intel Xeon Phi access
The Hartree Centre’s Intel® Xeon Phi™ co-processor access programme is currently open for applications
Hartree Centre announced as partner in £2.9M nuclear research programme
We are proud to be partners in a new £2.9M research programme to set up and run a UK Digital Reactor Design partnership.
Pepper makes new friends at Big Bang North West 2017
Our team took Pepper the robot to the Big Bang North West to help inspire young people to pursue STEM careers.
Astrophysicists benefit from supercomputing boost
The Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University has doubled its supercomputing capacity thanks to our retired supercomputer.
Hartree on tour | ISC High Performance 2017
18 – 22 Jun 2017 | The Hartree Centre exhibited at ISC High Performance in Frankfurt, Germany.
Duke of York opens new Hartree Centre building
On 31 May, the Hartree Centre was delighted to welcome HRH Prince Andrew, the Duke of York and invited guests to a formal event marking the official opening of the Hartree Centre building.
Hartree Centre welcomes new HPC computing facility to support machine learning
The Joint Academic Data Science Endeavour (JADE) will be the largest GPU facility in the UK supporting world-leading research in machine learning.
Introduction to LCR 4.0 | Post business breakfast talk
28 April 2017 | Representatives from the Hartree Centre and VEC will provide a brief introduction to LCR 4.0 at a networking event after the Sci-Tech Daresbury business breakfast.
ADDoPT project featured in European Pharmaceutical Review
The ADDoPT project was mentioned in an issue of the European Pharmaceutical Review on formulation development and drug delivery.
Cognitive project with Alder Hey wins award for innovation
Alder Hey Children's Hospital project wins "Most Innovative Collaboration" at the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2017.
Collaborating with Atos to bring the first Bull Sequana supercomputer to the UK
The high performance computing needs of UK industry and academia are set to receive a tremendous boost thanks to a major collaboration between STFC’s Hartree Centre and leading digital services company Atos UK&I.
Computing Insight UK 2016 brings HPC industry leaders to Manchester
Last week we brought together industry leaders and researchers to discuss the latest developments in high performance computing (HPC), big data analytics and cognitive technologies at Computing Insight UK 2016 in Manchester.
Apply for support with the IoTUK Boost
Could your SME benefit from the IoTUK Boost with support from the Hartree Centre?
Launch of LCR4.0 brings Industry 4.0 to Liverpool City Region manufacturers
The new European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) funded LCR4.0 project was launched this week at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool.
Hartree Centre partners in LCR4.0 to shape future of manufacturing in Liverpool
The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre Part will be a partner in the pioneering LCR4.0 project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Exploring cognitive solutions for healthcare challenges in Greater Manchester
The Hartree Centre recently hosted an event for several North West healthcare organisations to investigate the potential for cognitive computing technologies solving challenges in this vital sector.
Visit us at SC16!
The Hartree Centre, alongside the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Scientific Computing Department will be attending SC16 in Salt Lake City, Utah taking place 13-18 November 2016.
Big data in action with TechUK
The Hartree Centre attended another Big Data Roadshow, this time in Manchester, to help highlight how big data analytics can support innovation and develop processes which will benefit them in the future.
TechUK Big Data Roadshow comes to Manchester
The Hartree Centre will be sponsoring and exhibiting at TechUKs Big Data in Action Roadshow in Manchester.
Inspiring girls to study STEM
Approximately 80 female students from eight high schools around the North West recently had the chance to find out what it’s like to work in science and technology first hand at a STEM outreach event at the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus.
Supercomputers get to the heart of the matter
Computational scientists are using the powerful supercomputers at the Hartree Centre to visualise how blood flows through implanted blood pumps, which prolong the lives of heart patients waiting for a donor.
Hartree Centre presents at International Industrial Supercomputing Workshop
The Hartree Centres Alison Kennedy and Michael Gleaves were invited to speak at this years International Industrial Supercomputing Workshop in Barcelona.
Australia Big Data Mission tour visits the Hartree Centre
This week, an Australian delegation visited the Hartree Centre as part of a two-day visit to Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) sites at Sci-Tech Daresbury and Harwell Campus
Unique code-generating software makes weather and climate forecasting easier
This week, developers of atmospheric and oceanographic computer models will get a chance to hear about a truly innovative and unique piece of software being developed in a project funded by the Hartree Centre.
Research priorities defined for Blockchain Lab with Innovate Finance
The Hartree Centre and Innovate Finance, currently partnering on a joint Blockchain Lab, have announced research priorities for the project.
Apply now for access to our Intel Xeon Phi architecture
Do you wish to experiment with your code on cutting-edge architecture? Our Intel® Xeon Phi™ (Knights Corner) co-processor access programme is open for applications.
C.H.A.T.S wins first Hartree Hack with healthcare app for chronic conditions
Team C.H.A.T.S are the winners of the first Hartree Hack with their app to monitor the health of patients with chronic conditions in the community.
Growing IBM Research presence at Hartree
The STFC Hartree Centre has strengthened its mission to help UK industry drive productivity, growth and job creation using Big Data and cognitive technologies, as it welcomes a growing team of IBM Research scientists to its centre at Sci-Tech Daresbury.
Helping Alder Hey to become the first UK cognitive hospital
Alder Hey Childrens Hospital is working with STFC Hartree Centre to become first UK cognitive hospital.
Demonstrating big data value with TechUK
We are delighted to be supporting TechUK’s series of Big Data in Action Roadshows. The first event took place 12 April 2016 in London.
Big data mini-conference at IFB 2016
We’re facilitating a big data mini-conference as part of Made In The UK 2016 at the International Festival of Business (IFB), which will be held in Liverpool, UK.
Second edition of Hartree Insights out now!
The second edition of Hartree Insights, our regular news update, is out now! You can read it and subscribe to future updates here...
Hartree Centre Summer Schools 2016 will address big data skills shortage
The Hartree Centre Summer Schools 2016 are focusing on some of the most sought-after skills demanded by todays employers
Computing power to solve offshore engineering problems
Large offshore engineering projects are some of the more unusual items on the agenda at a computing conference being held this month in Paris
Apply for free access to Intel Xeon Phi architecture
Do you wish to experiment with your code on cutting-edge architecture in an HPC environment? Are you an industrial or academic user who wants to see if you can get your results more quickly?
Hartree Hack | Cognitive hackathon with IBM Watson
Coders, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and start-ups from across the Northern Powerhouse are invited to create the ‘next big thing’ in web or mobile apps at the STFC Hartree Centre’s first big data and cognitive technologies hackathon from 18-20 May
Hartree Centre blog launched
The Hartree Centre has launched a new blog to provide its own take on developments in the high performance computing, big data and cognitive technologies landscape.
Hartree Insights goes live
Weve just launched our regular news update Hartree Insights, to keep you updated on whats going on at the Hartree Centre. You can read it online or subscribe for email updates.
New Chief Technology Officer joins Hartree
The STFC Hartree Centre is pleased to announce that Dr Robin Pinning joins this week as Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Hartree Centre in 20.4m collaboration to transform UK pharmaceutical development and manufacturing
A new major collaborative project is set to transform the UK pharmaceutical industry by enabling the manufacturing processes of the innovative medicines of the future to be designed digitally.
Alison Kennedy appointed as new Hartree Centre Director
The STFC Hartree Centre is pleased to announce that Alison Kennedy will be joining the centre as its new Director at the end of March 2016.
Unique bug-beating software tools in development to enhance supercomputer performance
STFC and Rogue Wave Software have signed a collaboration agreement to work together on tools that will make software development for scientific computing more productive.
House of Lords praises North West digital hub during visit to Daresbury
STFC’s Hartree Centre, the North West’s high performance computing hub, was praised by the House of Lords this week as its Digital Skills Committee visited the Hartree team
Unilever, Syngenta and Infineum put supercomputing at heart of rapid prototyping initiative
Leading companies Unilever, Syngenta and Infineum, are using high performance computing (HPC) to drive a radical reduction in speed-to-market for their new product designs by up to 80%.
Great IoT Take-off
Launch of £50,000 STFC Hartree Centre Competition for UK SMEs
New facility helps UK business exploit high performance computing
New Centre Designed to Optimise Performance of OpenPOWER Systems for Modelling & Simulation and Big Data Analytics
Big Data predicts extreme weather blackspots for UK emergency services
UK start-up company, KnowNow Information Ltd, is revolutionising how UK emergency services can plan for, and respond to, extreme weather conditions, to help save lives and millions of pounds
Big data paves the way for big building and engineering projects
A new UK start-up company is about to revolutionise the way in which civil engineering and construction companies choose where to build, by telling them what’s under the ground before they start digging.
Universities, Science and Cities Minister Greg Clark visits STFC's Daresbury Laboratory
Universities, Science and Cities Minister Greg Clark visited the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire today
Partnership puts computational science at the heart of Unilevers R&D
The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre has become Unilever’s R&D global partner for high performance computing.
New UK/USA agreement will use high performance computing to boost economic competitiveness
STFC and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) in the USA will collaborate to expand industry’s use of supercomputing.
Case Study: Supercomputing for Materials Simulation
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and international partners are using advanced supercomputers to develop a new framework for accurate materials simulation.
Hartree opening starts revolution in High Performance Computing
The importance of high performance computing (HPC) to UK society and industry was highlighted in a series of events at Daresbury Laboratory earlier this year...
The next step on the road to more accurate weather forecasts
Gung-Ho is a project to design and build a next generation weather forecasting model for the UK
Chancellor pledges £30 Million for STFC Hartree Centre
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer visited Sci-Tech Daresbury to announce investment into the world-leading super-computing facilities at the site.
Hartree Centre Workshop links HPC and Industry
Over 120 delegates from industry and research institutions came together to explore how HPC enhances product and service innovation.
Helping the UK business sector harness high-performance computing and contributing to grand challenge science
The Hartree Centre is working closely with IBM to build some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and provide support and enablement for a wide range of industries.
OCF plc grows "HPC On Demand" service with the Hartree Centre
OCF plc, has expanded its HPC On-Demand service, enCORE as a result of a new agreement between OCF and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre.
Hartree Centre workshop | HPC as a service for industry
The Hartree Centre is pleased to announce the first in a series of workshops focused on providing UK industry with access to world class HPC skills and resources.
Ultra fast supercomputers at Hartree Centre will better prepare us for severe weather
It is anticipated that the new code will eventually replace the dynamical core of the Met Office’s Unified Model (UM), the principal UK tool for weather and climate prediction.
The Hartree Centre home to the most powerful supercomputer in the UK
IBM Blue Gene Q at The Hartree Centre, named Blue Joule, has been ranked number one in the UK, and number 13 in the world, in the Top 500 list of supercomputers
Hartree Centre in the TOP500 list of supercomputers
The Hartree Centre's IBM Blue Gene/Q system enters the TOP500 list at number 13 in the world.