The popular Computational Shared Facility (CSF) has recently hit a significant milestone with the 1-millionth job being submitted.
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MANCHESTER-I Your Urban Data Hub for Research and Teaching
The Triangulum team introduce Manchester-I, a single data hub to bring together urban data from across the city and the University.
Learn Basic Research Computing Skills
Research IT staff will be teaching and assisting on a Software Carpentry Workshop in May which aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. The workshop is free to post-graduate students and employees of the University of Manchester.
Spring and Summer Drop-in Sessions
We’ve just announced the next set of dates for our drop-in sessions. These sessions are specially designed to help quickly answer any queries, questions or issues you may be having with research IT services including software help, data visualization, research data management, access to HPC resources and much much more.
Data Management Plans are moving online
The Library have introduced a new institutional data management planning tool which will help researchers to manage their data management plans (DMPs) in a new and streamlined way.
Research IT Grant Support Clinic – May
Research IT offers a range of services to UoM researchers which need to be costed for in research grant proposals. From research software expertise to research sysadmins to research data storage and production of research websites – come along to our clinic on the 9th of May to find out more!
Research IT Club – find out more about us and our services!
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
The next Research IT club will take place on the 25th of April and will feature updates from our research infrastructure and software engineering teams. Our two feature presentations will look at how Research IT is helping to create new parallel computer architecture inspired by the human brain. There will also be a presentation from IT Services on the planned changes to staff and cluster desktops across the university.
Research Workstations – your views required!
IT Services currently supply a basic Lenovo research workstation for those performing more complex computational tasks and who require some extra power. Full details of these workstations can be found in the ITS Extended Catalogue. ITS are now seeking the views of researchers on these workstations and if they meet their needs.
Specialised CDT Training Events
Earlier this month, Research IT provided training for the University’s Regenerative Medicine Centre for Doctoral Training. The training was arranged by the Software Sustainability Institute, and was a two day Software Carpentry workshop. The instructors were Mike Jackson from EPCC at the University of Edinburgh and David Mawdsley from Research IT.
Update to UK Biobank Data Sets
The UK BioBank has now released an update to the full-release 500,000 participant data released last year. Specifically, updated imputed data (study id EGAD00010001474) is now available for use on the CSF, iCSF, DPSF and desktops. Continue reading
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