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.
Propose an N8 CIR Internship Project
EPSRC-funded Winter Internships 2025/6
N8 CIR Summer Internship Programme 2026
The N8/Bede AI for Science Project
Child of the North Data Showcase
Research Themes
How we can support you in your research
Online HPC Training
Bede Supercomputer
Case Studies
BEDE SUPERCOMPUTER
Members of the N8 Research Partnership can still accelerate their research through applying to use this service. It has 8 NVIDIA Grace-Hopper nodes, each of which contains 72-core 64-bit ARM CPUs.
N8 CIR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS 2026
Our summer internships have now concluded with our interns presenting their work in a Showcase in York in September.
WINTER INTERNSHIPS 2025/2026
For the 2025/6 academic year we received funding from EPSRC for student interns to work on projects to develop their computation skills or learn about how digital research infrastructure is helping researchers at their institution.
PROPOSE A PROJECT FOR THE 2027 INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME
We invite academic researchers and digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs) from across the N8 universities to propose projects for its undergraduate internship scheme. Applications close MONDAY 4 JANUARY 2027.
BEDE USERS UPDATE
From 01 August 2026, this facility is exclusively for the use of members of Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and York universities.