At Research IT we know how busy researchers are, and how talking face to face can be the easiest way to communicate a problem or complex research idea. That’s why every other Wednesday in term-time we host drop-in sessions across across campus so you can talk to our experts in person about anything research computing related.
New Cutting Edge GPU Resource
Researchers at the University of Manchester will have access to a new computational resource this summer. N8 CIR was successful in bidding for a new Tier 2 computational resource in the EPSRC Tier 2 HPC call which took place in Autumn last year.
Research IT Club February Presentations
Thank you to everyone who came along to the first Research IT club of 2020. If you were unable to attend, all the presentations are now available at the links below. We had some great presentations on how our new digital image comparison and what the introduction of Office 365 will mean for researchers.
Research IT Club – IT Modernisation
Come along to the first Research IT club of 2020 on the 12th of Feb to hear about the IT Modernisation Programme and how it will interact with the University research community.
Virtual Environments Top Tips
Virtual Environments are a tool for isolating and tracking the software packages that you use for your work. Why is this useful to you? Let Research Software Engineers Douglas Lowe and Ann Gledson explain!
Want to Run a Million R Jobs?
Find out how our Research Infrastructure Engineers helped a researcher from Division of Cardiovascular Sciences run a million R jobs on confidential data in weeks rather than months.
Open Source Interaction and Data Visualisation Tool Launched
As part of the BBC Data Partnership, Joshua Woodcock, a Research Software Engineer in Research IT, developed the Interaction Data Visualisation Tool, (IDVT); a web-based data visualisation tool for the initial analysis of low-level interaction data taken from object-based user experiences.
