In September our Research Virtual Machine Infrastructure (RVMI) team migrated a University research group to a new, upgraded server allowing them to continue their research with minimal interruption – a great demonstration of just one of the vital services carried out by Research IT.

Software written by our team has enabled medical staff at the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University and the Dept. of Critical Care at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust to make tracheostomy interventions safer and easier to perform.

Our Applications Support team have an important announcement for users of LabView. Users are urged to install an update as soon as possible otherwise your NI software or hardware could be prevented from working.

Our new Year In Industry students accompanied our Research Software Engineering team to the University of Sheffield for RSECon26. What did they make of their first academic conference?

This year we are hosting two Year in Industry students from the University of Manchester and the University of Birmingham. They will be an integral part of our team for the next year and will be working on an exciting range of projects!

Several of our Research Software Engineers spent this summer supporting a research internship where environmental-science students learnt how to analyse cutting-edge meteorological simulations of damaging windstorms.

Phil Bradbury, Research Software Engineer, and Adrian Harwood, Head of Research Software Engineering, introduce COMPASS. a community supporting digital research technical leaders to share operational best practice across institutions.

Collaborating with groups internationally can be challenging due to time zones and distances. Discover how our team used agile methods to successfully collaborate with the Center for Open Science (USA), why it worked and learn some techniques for using Agile in your own projects.

Could your research benefit from the power of GPUs? If so we have some good news! GPU resources on the N8 CIR Bede system continue to be available to University researchers after renewed funding.

Several Research IT and ITS team members recently attended the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, one of the world's leading events for high-performance computing (HPC), AI infrastructure, and advanced computing technologies.

If you are a Mathematica user at the University, then look out for Mathematica Single Sign-On (SSO) which is now live! This means that you are able to use your university credentials instead of separate Wolfram details.

Meet Ben Parkes from the Department of Civil Engineering and Management, one of the leads of the Green Compute for Research @UoM group. He explains how he got involved in the group and what the group hopes to achieve.