Research IT News
Software Productivity and Sustainability for Computational Science and Engineering - Call for Posters
A minisymposterium (topical poster group) on “Software Productivity and Sustainability for CSE” for the SIAM CSE21 conference, is looking for poster contributions for this general topic to complement a range of minisymposia at the event.
bmBASE: Web Application & Database
Veselin Karaganev, a Computer Science summer student from the University has been working with our Research Software Engineers to develop a web database for the basement membraneBASE project from Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research.
Mobile App Oils the Wheels of Apprenticeships
Our Mobile Development Service (MDS) have been working with Drs Gail Hebson and Clare Mumford from the Alliance Manchester Business School to deliver a mobile app to improve the mentoring process in apprenticeships.
How Should We Deduce the Tree of Life?
Working out the relationships between the twigs in the tree of life - with confidence - is a key goal for biologists and palaeontologists. It also provides computational challenges. Russell Garwood, from the School of Natural Sciences, explains what these are, and how Research IT have helped.
MDS App to enter Uncharted Territories
Our Research Software Engineers have been working with Dr Nathan Smith in the School of Social Sciences to design a tool to monitor and support mental and psychological health needs in high risk environments.
EPSRC Access to High Performance Computing
The Access to High Performance Computing Call, through which EPSRC users can access the council's new and upcoming Tier-1 and Tier-2 resources has now gone live.
EPSRC Research Software Engineer Fellowships 2020
There is a prestigious 5-year Research Software Engineering Fellowship call announced with first round deadline on 18 August 2020.
Processing UK Biobank Datasets
When faced with a large dataset from UK Biobank, Alex Casson’s research group needed an easy and quick way to process it. Christopher Beach explains how they tackled this issue with some help from Research IT.
Julia Now Available on the CSF
Mark Lundie, Research Infrastructure Engineer in Research IT, helped Dave Topping’s research group to use Julia on the CSF – a move that could benefit many researchers across the University.
Changes to SSH/X2GO Gateway Log In
Do you use our SSH/X2GO gateway (nyx servers)? How you log in will be changing on 3rd of August
Mac Move to Arm Processors
Not so much a top tip this month but an opinion piece – Ian Cottam talks about the recent news that Apple are moving to Arm Processors. What does that mean for Mac owners?
New ABAQUS Licence Agreement
We are planning to change the ABAQUS licence allowing use remotely and on personal machines.