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Notice Board (last updated: 26th August 2025) contact us

The purpose of this website is to help with the administratrial aspects of the MCC. If you want to learn more about the MCC, please visit http://mcc.hec.ac.uk.

Rules on who can and how to join the MCC - Info for how members can get an account

Materials Chemistry Annual Conference Our next conference will take place July 2026 in Daresbury and will follow a similar agenda as used previously. Please note that all group leads should attend at least one of these conferences (even just for one day) per EPSRC funding period. Current funding period: Jan 2022 - Dec 2026.

Allocations: The new tighter constraints imposed on HEC consortia during phase 2 (cf phase 1) of total usage on ARCHER resulted in a modified timetable of MCC meetings, and therefore lengths over which individual projects run. Importantly, any resources left at the end of June and December is lost and our total usage should be at a constant rate. This is imposed to discourage hording that leads to long queues near the end of an allocation period. The MCC applies the policy that any individual budget deemed to be underused may be reduced to maximise the benefit of ARCHER2 to our community. Likewise, time allocation periods on YOUNG is outside of our control; so the same rules apply here accept that allocation periods typically change on the first working Monday January, April, July, and October. Pro-rata gold will be allocated in each time period. We will be especially critical (and proactive) if MCC's total spend on either ARCHER2 or YOUNG is below that expected.

Winter General Meeting: online towards the end of January, with the committee meeting taking place in the previous week.
Summer General Meeting: hybrid and immediately follows our Annual Conference in Daresbury during July.

General Applications from full MCC members for HEC resources

For the period: [a] 1st February to 31st July and [b] 1st August to 31st January

Call opens: First work day in [a] January and [b] June
Call ends: 4pm third Thursday in [a] January and [b] June

Please assume that we have the same allocation for each six-month period to distribute for YOUNG and ARCHER2. For more guidance click here.


Acknowledgements: When publishing work that benefited from resources allocated by the MCC: please include the following acknowledgment 'Via our membership of the UK's HEC Materials Chemistry Consortium, which is funded by EPSRC (EP/X035859), this work used the ' followed by the appropriate acknowledgement: 'ARCHER2 UK National Supercomputing Service (http://www.archer2.ac.uk).' for ARCHER2, 'the UK Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub for computational resources, MMM Hub, which is partially funded by EPSRC (EP/T022213)' for YOUNG, and 'the UK Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub for computational resources, MMM Hub, which is partially funded by EPSRC (EP/W032260)' for the GPU nodes of YOUNG.

If space is limited, please ensure the name of the HEC platform, the phrase "Materials Chemistry Consortium" and *most importantly* any relevant EPSRC grant numbers are acknowledged.

For posters and talks, please include our logo.

All published work supported by CoSeC (software support of DL_POLY, ChemShell, Crystal, for example) should carry the following acknowledgment: 'This work made use of computational support by CoSeC, the Computational Science Centre for Research Communities, which was made available through our membership of the MCC HEC'. You may want to add any relevant CCP, or example' and CCP5'

When searching the literature, older work may include references to "THOMAS", "HECToR" and "HPCx" and refer to funding by EPSRC with grant references of EP/P020194 for THOMAS, and EP/D504872, EP/F067496, EP/L000202, EP/R029431 for Tier-1 HPC resources.

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