Members of our Platforms Team recently headed to Durham HPC Days 2026 for a programme covering everything from green computing and EDI to national compute strategy, AI training and interactive HPC. Discover what insights they brought back.

Discover how the High Energy Physics group, with Research IT help, have been addressing recent critical Linux security vulnerabilities affecting the ‘grid’ compute systems in particular.

Our Research Software Engineers (RSEs) worked with Dr Réka Solymosi from the School of Social Sciences to build a mobile app that helps women record where, when and why they felt unsafe during their runs – making a complex data gathering requirement possible in the form of a practical, usable product.

The CaDiR community hosted a combined C++ User Group meeting and AI-assisted coding forum in April 2026 at the University. The event featured expert talks, panel discussions, and a guest lecture, fostering technical and ethical conversations on software development and AI tools.

Researchers from across the UK came to Manchester in April for an ARCHER2 and Research IT course on intermediate research software development. Through hands-on exercises and flexible materials, they gained practical skills to write better, more sustainable code.

The Research IT Platforms team recently completed the deployment of Nvidia H200 servers within the University’s flagship high performance compute resource – the Computational Shared Facility.

Meet Stavrina Dimosthenous who is one of the leads from the Manchester Research Software Community (MRSC). The group brings together people involved with or interested in research software - either your own code, open source or commercial!

Catch up on the presentations from the recent UoM UK Biobank Users meeting which focused on new research from across the University and updates from UK Biobank.

A new special interest group has been launched for anyone interested in process datalogging, experimental automation, and the interfaces between hardware and software at the University. Find out more about the aims of the group and how to get involved.

A two-phase collaboration between the Cai Lab and the Research Software Engineering team transformed a legacy Strain Database into a modern, scalable platform. The upgrade improved reliability, usability, and flexibility to better support the ongoing research needs of the lab.

When researchers are getting ready to publish a paper, they increasingly want to publish their software as well. Quite often, though, research software isn’t initially ready for public consumption. This is where Research IT can help.

Research Lifecycle Programme (RLP) has recently enabled a significant investment in the University’s flagship high performance computing platform, CSF3.