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Advanced Github – creating template repositories

Douglas Lowe; Robin Long,

Learn more about using Github repositories for starting new projects from two of our Research Software Engineers Douglas Lowe and Robin Long.

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Closer to you — the RIT Edge Compute Service

Fiona Treacy,

Find out more about our new Edge Compute Service - an alternative computational resource.

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CSF4: Our new Computationally Intensive Research Platform

Fiona Treacey,

Find out more about Computational Shared Facility 4 (CFS4), also known as ALAN (Advanced Linux Algorithms and Numerics) - a brand new platform at the University

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Need to Access a Large Database?

Chris Grave,

Are you a researcher that needs to access a large dataset? Are you working off-campus and are struggling to run analysis on data that is stored on-campus? Find out how Research IT can help.

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Turning Analysis Scripts into Packages

Peter Crowther; Chris Daniel,

Find out how Peter Crowther, a Research Software Engineer in Research IT, helped Christopher Daniel from the Lightform Group in the Department of Materials to improve and prepare his code ready for publication.


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Advanced Git – linking code repositories using SubModules

Douglas Lowe; Robin Long,

Git is becoming a common tool, widely used for organising code, recording developments, etc. Often, we want to reuse code from one project for another, or to have a standard layout or template that can be used for similar projects. Here Robin Long and Douglas Lowe, from the RSE team, will detail the features available in git and github for making your life easier with this.

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MATLAB Licence Update

Anja Le Blanc,

The University has purchased a license to allow the download and install of the full suite of MATLAB products on to both staff and students’ own, or University provided, computers.

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Mobile Development Service Explores Lockdown Lethargy

Adrian Harwood,

The Rest-Activity Pattern app (RAPapp) developed by Research IT’s Mobile Development Service (MDS) allows users to send sleep and activity data measured by their smart watches or fitness trackers to University researchers, while sharing their personalised “activity plots” to their social media. This is all part of a priority project looking at how the lockdown has affected rest-activity patterns in EEA countries.

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CIUK 2020 - open for contributions

Martin Turner,

The popular CIUK (Computing Insight UK) event is moving online this year.

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OriginPro Update

Anja Le Blanc,

The University OriginPro licence has recently been renewed.

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Software Productivity and Sustainability for Computational Science and Engineering - Call for Posters

Shoaib Sufi,

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.

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bmBASE: Web Application & Database

Veselin Karaganev,

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.

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