High Performance Computing

Our powerful research computing environments are available to academic staff and doctoral students from all departments.

Our Service

Find information about our HPC facility, how to access it and how your research can benefit from using it.

Nimbus cloud supercomputer

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Working specifications: Compute, networking, software and storage info for Nimbus, the University's new cloud HPC environment.

Anatra HTC cluster

Supercomputing generated 3D render of the lowest energy molecular orbital (LUMO) of a simple Nitro-Michael addition transition state.

Technical specifications for the University's new on-site high throughput computing (HTC) cluster named Anatra.

GW4 Isambard HPC

Bath has 15% of the compute time on Isambard. Contact Research Computing if you would like to use the environment for your research.

Research Computing Teaching Cluster

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The Teaching Cluster is used to deliver undergraduate and master's courses in Scientific Computing and Parallel Computing.

Get started using Bath's supercomputing environments

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The University's research computing environments support academic research across all disciplines.

High performance computing as a tool for research

Dr Sukumar Natarajan and Professor Coley created a timed series of data to predict localised weather in the future.

Join our growing community of academics using high performance computing to generate valuable research output.

Events

Join our events for staff and doctoral students.

Nimbus Migration Q&A Session

8 Jun 2022 2.30pm Online

Get answers to your Nimbus migration questions - from training, data storage, timings and costings, to the application process for unfunded access.

Research Software Support

7 Jun 2022 10.00am Online

Get help and advice from the University’s team of Research Software Engineers. Available to researchers and doctoral students.

Case studies

Find out how high performance computing has helped researchers across the University.

How HPC and Machine Learning are improving the analysis of renewable materials

Dan uses HPC to reduce the amount of time it takes to analyse new sustainable materials.

Creating environmentally friendly plastics using HPC

Megan uses the University's HPC facilities to experiment with sustainable plastics that could change the way we live everyday

How HPC is improving research at Bath

Jack Betteridge, a PhD student, talks about how he is using the High Performance Computing facility to boost his research.

About us

Our high performance computing (HPC) service is used by researchers to do complex computational tasks in a range of fields. Contact us if you would like to use HPC environment.

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Contact us

If you have any enquiries about our service please contact us.