Research IT

Research IT News

eTekkatho - delivering educational resources to Myanmar

ritnews,

The eTekkatho project, a collaboration between the Tekkatho Foundation, JISC, the Co-op, and the University of Manchester, is an ongoing service to deliver educational resources to the people of Myanmar.

Read the full article

Emerging Technology ‘EMiT’ 2016 – Register now

ritnews,

Registration is open for the upcoming third edition of the Emerging Technology ‘EMiT’ conference to be held on the 2nd and 3rd of June 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. Building on the successes of the previous two years, EMiT 2016 aims to continue to provide a platform to discuss cutting edge advancements in emerging computing technologies and techniques.

Read the full article

2016 Summer Schools - Focus on HPC for Engineering Simulation

ritnews,

Dr Lee Margetts (School of MACE) is leading a 1 week "Engineering Simulation" Summer School at the Hartree Centre (Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington) that focuses on high performance computing for solid mechanics.

Read the full article

Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) survey on citing software

ritnews,

Even though 92% of academics say they use research software and 69% say that their research would not be practical without it[1], it is often the case that software is cited in academic literature in a haphazard fashion – if it is even cited at all.

Read the full article

The CSF keeps on growing and growing...

ritnews,

By the time you read this, there will be 96 Infiniband-connected Intel Haswell-based nodes in the Computational Shared Facility (CSF), equivalent to over 2,300 cores. The CSF total core count will be over 8,000.

Read the full article

Windows 10 to support Linux binaries

ritnews,

The big news from Microsoft is that, from this summer, Windows 10 will support user-mode programs from the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Read the full article

Research Computing Training University of Manchester Courses

ritnews,

Research IT is running a short series of hands-on training courses which provide skills for researchers to further enhance their research. For information on our courses or other training that we can provide, please take a look at our training catalogue or contact us.

Read the full article

PRACE Advanced Learning Courses

ritnews,

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) offers free courses at different HPC centres in Europe.

Read the full article