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

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.

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.

Prepare your team for the CIUK 2020 Student Cluster Challenge!

Find out how Research IT research software engineers are playing a key role in SpiNNaker, part of the Human Brain project.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn Data Science, Data Visualisation and Image Processing for Free

If you are continuing to work from home and need access to specialised software packages both Avizo and Volume Graphics have home licences available.

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.