{"id":6264,"date":"2026-07-17T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/?p=6264"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:04:19","slug":"early-access-baskerville-national-compute-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/2026\/07\/17\/early-access-baskerville-national-compute-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Early access: Baskerville National Compute Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-16.45.44-1024x257.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-16.45.44-1024x257.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-16.45.44-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-16.45.44-768x193.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-16.45.44-250x63.png 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-16.45.44.png 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baskerville Supercomputing Centre\u00a0and\u00a0the Institute for Data and AI (IDAI) are giving University of Birmingham users early access to the Baskerville National Compute Resource (NCR), from October 2026, as alpha\u00a0and\u00a0beta testers, before the machine is fully running from April 2027. The service is likely to be interrupted until final testing is complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baskerville.ac.uk\/compute\/hardware\/\">technical specification of the Baskerville NCR hardware is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please note the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.bear.bham.ac.uk\/bluebear\/bbgpu\/#gpu-resources-on-bluebear\">existing GPU provision available via the University&#8217;s supercomputer BlueBEAR, detailed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">University of Birmingham researchers can <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.cloud.microsoft\/e\/PkCaC1g4n0\">apply for early access via the form here<\/a> (closing date: Tuesday 1 September 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please direct any queries about the system to our user support:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:g.yearwood@bham.ac.uk\">Dr Gavin Yearwood<\/a><a href=\"mailto:g.yearwood@bham.ac.uk\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Best wishes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew&nbsp;J&nbsp;Morris, &nbsp;Baskerville Supercomputing Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paolo Missier, IDAI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baskerville Supercomputing Centre\u00a0and\u00a0the Institute for Data and AI (IDAI) are giving University of Birmingham users early access to the Baskerville National Compute Resource (NCR), from October 2026, as alpha\u00a0and\u00a0beta testers, before the machine is fully running from April 2027. The service is likely to be interrupted until final testing is complete.\u00a0 The technical specification of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/2026\/07\/17\/early-access-baskerville-national-compute-resource\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early access: Baskerville National Compute Resource&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":6280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,81,233],"tags":[87,325,35,432,433],"class_list":["post-6264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-baskerville","category-idai","tag-ai","tag-baskerville-ncr","tag-hpc","tag-idai","tag-national-supercomputing-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6264"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6281,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6264\/revisions\/6281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/bear\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}