Security News > 2020 > May > Access to UK Supercomputer Suspended Following Cyberattack
Hosted by the University of Edinburgh and packing 118,080 processing cores running on a Cray XC30, the ARCHER supercomputer is the primary academic research supercomputer in the UK. The ARCHER Service was started in November 2013.
On May 11, 2020, the team behind ARCHER disabled access to the service due to a "Security exploitation" on its login nodes.
"We would advise you to also change passwords and SSH keys on any other systems which you share your ARCHER credentials with," the team said on Wednesday.
The security incident, the team says, appears to be part of "a major issue across the academic community as several computers have been compromised in the UK and elsewhere in Europe."
The EPCC Systems team has been working with the National Cyber Security Centre and Cray/HPE to investigate the incident and address the issue, but the ARCHER Service will remain unavailable over the weekend as well.