Research IT News
Mobile, Desktop and Watches - can you have it all with MDS?


Did you know that the Mobile Development Service (MDS) can deploy your apps to run on Windows 10 and MacOS? We can also develop apps for your smart watch!
Launch of Bede - a new high performance computing platform


Bede, the N8’s new high performance computing platform, is now open for users from across N8.
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2020


As it’s approaching the end of the term, it seems like a good time to look back on our most popular blog posts of 2020. Unsurprisingly several of the top ten posts are related to working from home and the challenges that it brought!
Microsoft Research Technology Professionals Community Launch
The Pain of a Data Collection Mobile App


For those with long term, constant and often debilitating pain, taking part in a study requiring multiple questionnaires on levels of pain to be completed would be difficult, if not impossible. Research Software Engineers have developed an app for mobile devices to make this a much easier prospect.
Advanced Github – creating template repositories


Learn more about using Github repositories for starting new projects from two of our Research Software Engineers Douglas Lowe and Robin Long.
Closer to you — the RIT Edge Compute Service


Find out more about our new Edge Compute Service - an alternative computational resource.
CSF4: Our new Computationally Intensive Research Platform


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
Need to Access a Large Database?


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.
Turning Analysis Scripts into Packages


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.
Advanced Git – linking code repositories using SubModules


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.
MATLAB Licence Update


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.