The N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research

The N8 CIR focuses on the creation of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in CIR methods, skills, and facilities to underpin the strategic research objectives of the N8 universities. This CoE will accelerate progress in areas of research that are of strategic importance to the N8 partners, including some that have not made heavy use of technology in the past. Find out more about the N8 CIR and N8 Research Partnership.

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Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat 2025

Our Research Technology conference successfully ran in January. Follow the link to find out more
DRI Retreat 2025
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Bede Supercomputer

Find out about the N8’s Tier 2 Power 9 and GPU-based high-performance computing (HPC) platform housed at Durham University
Learn how the Bede Supercomputer can accelerate your research
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Research Themes

The N8 CIR runs training and community events and provides resources for N8 researchers within three key themes
Learn about the Research Themes that the N8 CIR supports
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Supporting Research

Find out how Research Software Engineers, Research Infrastructure Engineers, and Research Data Managers can help with your research
Discover how research support can help you
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Women in HPC

In 2021, N8 CIR became officially a Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) chapter
Learn about our WHPC chapter and how you can get involved
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Online HPC Training

Learn to code, organise your data, and make use of AI on our YouTube channel
Visit our YouTube site to start learning now
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Case Studies

Find out how researchers and research support have been helped by the N8 CIR
Read case studies from across the N8 CIR community
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Research Themes

We support research in Digital Health, Digital Humanities and Machine Learning

Find Out About the Themes
Bede Supercomputer

This facility is available to researchers across the N8 Research Partnership to help accelerate research and scientific discovery

Information on Bede and How to Gain Access
N8 CIR Women in HPC Chapter

The N8 CIR has had a Women in HPC Chapter since 2021

Read about the chapter and join the mailing list
Summer 2025 Internships

We have funded 24 8-week-long summer internships to promote computational research to undergraduates across the N8 partnership

Find out about the interns and their projects