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Changes to SSH/X2GO Gateway Log In

Pen Richardson,

Do you use our SSH/X2GO gateway (nyx servers)? How you log in will be changing on 3rd of August

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Mac Move to Arm Processors

Ian Cottam,

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?

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New ABAQUS Licence Agreement

David Buckley,

We are planning to change the ABAQUS licence allowing use remotely and on personal machines.

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Research Software Application Updates

Anja Le Blanc,

Our Research Applications Support team have been busy updating a range of research software applications to the latest versions.

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Personalising Breast Cancer Risk

Andrew Jerrison,

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.

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Keeping Patient Data Safe in the Cloud

Steven Antrobus,

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.

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Good News for MATLAB Users!

Gillian Sinclair,

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.

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Time for an Update

Ian Cottam,

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.


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6000 Years of the Condor

Ian Cottam,

Our computational resources continue to hit milestones!

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May Top tip: Home broadband issues and solutions

Ian Cottam,

When working from home we all rely on our Internet Service Providers (ISPs) but what happens when things go wrong?


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Microsoft: COVID-19 Grant and Open Research Dataset

Fiona Treacy,

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.

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CSF3 has Run Over One Million Jobs!

Pen Richardson,

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.

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