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Steve Willey at the Slough Data Centre

High Performance Computing (HPC)

The Research Computing Service (RCS) provides access to HPC resources and support to any researcher at Imperial College. At the core of the HPC service is a large High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility for non-interactive, high-throughput and highly parallel compute- and data-intensive tasks.

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Research Data Store (RDS) is a central service for storing large volumes of research data.

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RCS provide several web-based services that enable interactive work to be carried out on HPC systems; including JupyterHub and RStudio via Open OnDemand.

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The mission of the RSE Team is to increase the quality, impact and sustainability of the research software developed at Imperial, supporting the College in enhancing its world-leading research outputs.

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