Research IT News
New Improved Research Data Storage Coming Soon
Research IT is pleased to announce that a replacement system for the existing Research Data Storage platform (Isilon) has been procured. The new tiered platform will offer researchers greater data storage capacity and will also be faster and cheaper.
Introduction to version control using Git
Research IT will be running a full-day course providing an intensive hands-on introduction to version control using Git on the 8th November 2016.
Avizo Introduction course 13th Oct 2017
First Conference of Research Software Engineers
Are you one of a growing number of people in academia who combine expertise in programming with an intricate understanding of research? If so then you are a research software engineer (RSE)! The inaugural conference of RSEs took place in Manchester in early September and the presentations are now available online along with many of the workshop training materials.
Apply for Access to Xeon Phi
The Hartree Centre has announced a 7th programme of access to its Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor cluster. This is for projects from academia and industry that would like to experiment with their code on this exciting new architecture.
Are you on board Dropbox for Business?
Dropbox for Business, our external file sharing service is arriving soon, stopover and find out what’s on offer and how to get on board.
Fortran Modernization Workshop Feb 2017
NAG will be holding a two day Fortran workshop at the University of Manchester on the 2nd - 3rd Feb 2017. The event is free to attend but registration is required.
Research IT Expertise Helps Human Brain Simulation
Research IT has been providing the SpiNNaker project with research software engineer (RSE) expertise to help them simulate billions of simple neurons in order to create brain inspired computing systems.
AMBS Big Data Forum
Alliance Manchester Business School are hosting their Big Data Forum on the 28th of September. The Big Data Forum is a cross-disciplinary network that brings together researchers with interests in the field of Big Data.
Code Optimisation on ARCHER
Would you like to improve the performance of your applications on ARCHER?
This course on “Single Node Performance Optimisation” will cover the main features of modern HPC nodes, including multiple cores, vector floating point units, deep cache hierarchies, and NUMA memory systems.
Research IT Out and About
Research IT staff will be out and about at the start of the new academic term presenting and exhibiting at Postgraduate research welcome events across campus. The aim of the presentations is to give new research students a very high level introduction to research IT and the services that we offer.
Microsoft Azure Training
Microsoft Research is offering a free, hands-on, cloud computing training course in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The course will take place on Wednesday 21st September 2016.