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Bath's Nimbus cloud supercomputer supports academic research in all disciplines.

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Once granted access to our HPC environments you can log in remotely using a secure network.

How to gain access

Bath's portfolio of Research Computing environments are open to all academics and doctoral students.

Undergraduate students can also use the environments as part of their final year project. Your departmental champion will discuss your needs and arrange access.

Software packages

A wide range of pre-installed software applications are available on Bath's HPC environments, including Ansys, Caffe, Matlab, R, Python, ParaView, Stata and VASP and many more.

You can also request a new software be set up. Applications which run too slowly on your desktop/laptop can run much quicker on Bath's supercomputers.

Get training and support

Join our next Intro to cloud HPC training course for new users. Register now to secure your space.

We also have an extensive library of self-guided training material covering the Unix Shell, Intro to HPC, Nimbus, Anatra and the Account Management Portal

Research Computing also offers HPC support and research software development advice and consultancy to help you achieve your research goals.

We advise on a range of topics, including:

  • creating job scripts and troubleshooting issues
  • optimising software performance and streamlining data processes
  • meeting current and future research challenges

Contact Research Computing on: rc-support@bath.ac.uk

Acknowledging Research Computing

Research Computing provides state-of-the-art high performance computing and research software engineering support to the academic community, significantly impacting the quality of the resultant research output.

Find out how to acknowledge us in your publications.

Request access

Contact us if you would like to use our high performance computing environments.


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