Dates have been announced for tomography and 3D data images processing courses using Avizo for the next few months at the University of Manchester. The courses are run by the Manchester X-ray Imaging Facility (MXIF) at the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility, University of Manchester and are free to UoM researchers. External attendees are welcome to attend but there is a cost.

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Make is a tool which can run commands to read files, process these files in some way, and write out the processed files. For example, in software development, Make is used to compile source code into executable programs or libraries, but Make can also be used for many other tasks.

Research IT will be delivering an introductory training course on the UNIX shell (aka the terminal, the Linux command line) on 20th April 2017.

An Avizo Introduction course will be running at the University of Manchester on Thursday, 26th January. Avizo is 3D visualization and analysis software for scientific data.

There will be a half day course on "Parallel Programming with C++" at the University on the 24th of January 2017. This is a short course that will give you a taste of functional programming in C++ and how it can be used to write efficient parallel code.

NAG (The Numerical Algorithms Group) are running a training session on how to make the most of their numerical and statistical routines within MATLAB. The NAG Library, and Fortran Compiler, are available to University of Manchester staff and students for use on both institutional and personal machines for academic use under a site-wide license.

Research IT has arranged for the latest version of Git (v.2.10.2) to be available on all staff managed desktops. Git is a version control system that allows software developers to have complete control and management of their code development ensuring that you can easily revert back to previous versions, share your code and collaborate with others.

Two Avizo courses will take place in the Photon Science Institute (PSI) at the university in December. An introductory course will take place on the 6^th followed by an advanced course on the 7th. The courses are free to students / members of staff at the University of Manchester but external attendees will be charged.

Registration has now closed for these training events.

On the 12^th – 13^th Dec, Research IT will be hosting a course on “Writing Scalable Parallel Applications with MPI”. The course will be hands on and is an opportunity to learn how best to use MPI.

Research IT will be running a full-day course providing an intensive hands-on introduction to version control using Git on the 8^th November 2016.

An Avizo Introduction course will be running at the University of Manchester on Thursday, 13th October. The course is organised by CCPi who have 20 places available.

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.