Research IT News
Research Software Application Updates
Our Research Applications Support team have been busy updating a range of research software applications to the latest versions.
Personalising Breast Cancer Risk
Andrew Jerrison, Research Software Engineer, explains how he worked with researchers led by Prof. Gareth Evans from Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, to develop a software application to collect and collate data that allows them to give women a personalised risk assessment of breast cancer at their normal screening session.
Keeping Patient Data Safe in the Cloud
When the Centre for Health Informatics needed to move their popular CFHealthHub to a new secure environment, they turned to Research IT for help. Steven Antrobus, their Project Manager, explains how we helped.
Good News for MATLAB Users!
The Faculty of Science and Engineering has funded the extension of the MATLAB licence to allow its use on all University staff and students own devices until Sept 2021.
Time for an Update
Things are constantly changing in Research IT and IT Services so Ian Cottam has gone back to some of his previous articles to provide updates.
6000 Years of the Condor
May Top tip: Home broadband issues and solutions
When working from home we all rely on our Internet Service Providers (ISPs) but what happens when things go wrong?
Microsoft: COVID-19 Grant and Open Research Dataset
Microsoft are offering grants to support COVID-19 research, access to the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset and access to Azure Datasets including free storage and curation.
CSF3 has Run Over One Million Jobs!
The University’s main compute resource, the Computational Shared Facility (CSF), reached a major milestone last month. Find out more about the service and how you can get access.
CIUK 2020 Cluster Challenge
Prepare your team for the CIUK 2020 Student Cluster Challenge!
Research IT and SpiNNaker
Find out how Research IT research software engineers are playing a key role in SpiNNaker, part of the Human Brain project.
Technical Training in the Time of COVID-19
With the campus in lockdown, we have moved some of our courses online but how does this work in practice? Is it possible to have the same level of interaction as you do in a classroom? Douglas Lowe tells of his experience.