Research IT News
Mobile Development Service Making Remote Working Standard
In this article, Adrian Harwood from the Mobile Development Service (MDS) discusses how the established way of working in MDS has meant that campus closure has had a minimal effect on their ability to deliver a quality service for University researchers.
Restricted Data Research in the Cloud
If your research involves restricted data you may feel that your computational choices are reduced. Gary Leeming, Project Design Lead for Research Lifecycle Programme Project S "Develop a service to manage restricted data", discusses what the University is doing to open up more options.
Happy Birthday MDS!
Launched on 1st April 2019, the Mobile Development Service from Research IT is now one-year-old. It has proven to be a very popular addition to the Research IT catalogue over the last twelve months. The service has contributed to research projects across all 3 faculties, delivering 9 apps to date with 8 more in development or planned for the remainder of 2020. In this article we look at some of the what we think are the best features we have delivered to developer.
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Avizo and Volume Graphics Licence Updates
If you are continuing to work from home and need access to specialised software packages both Avizo and Volume Graphics have home licences available.
April Top Tip - Working from home with multiple (virtual) desktops
The COVID-19 outbreak now means that most people are working from home but how do you adapt when perhaps you don’t have the same equipment as you do in your university office? Ian Cottam offers some tips on working from home with virtual desktops.
PRACE COVID-19 Project Call
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is welcoming project proposals requesting computing resources to contribute to the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cyber Essentials Scheme
IT Services has renewed the University’s Cyber Essentials compliance. The renewed certification will last until February 2021, and will be assessed/renewed on an annual basis.
MATLAB Licence Update
The MathWorks has provided The University with a licence to download and install the full suite of MATLAB products on to both staff and students’ own, or University provided, computers.
NVivo Licence Update
OriginPro License Assistance
If you use OriginPro please see their latest announcement regarding licensing.
Large Data Image Reconstruction and Visualisation - Turing Summer School
Collaborative Computational Project in Tomographic Imaging (ccpi.ac.uk) includes a dedicated team of Software Engineers focusing, through development of a Core Imaging Library (CIL), to provide the UK tomography community with a toolbox of algorithms that increases the quality and level of information that can be extracted.