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To keep you up to date with all our activities, announcements of interest to the N8 CIR community, and presentations from recent events are shared here.

Humanities & Data Science Discussion Group

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The next meeting of the Turing's discussion group on Humanities and Data Science will be on October 14, at 4pm London time.

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letter from 1885

Bede has been Formally Handed Over

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The commissioning of N8 CIR’s new HPC system reached a major milestone on 17 August when OCF handed the system over to Advanced Research Computing at Durham University.

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OCF computer
OCF computer

NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship 2020

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NVIDIA's 2020 Graduate Fellowship Programme is open for applications.

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N8 CIR are Recruiting

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This vacancy has now closed.

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an interview

N8 CIR Launches Training Provision Survey

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Ensuring that researchers have the skills they need to maximise the benefits of high performance and high throughput computing is a significant part of the work of N8 CIR. This new survey will help us to ensure that researchers are able to develop these key skills across the partnership.

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person with question in front of face

N8 CIR Meet-ups 2020

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N8 CIR have organised as series of six meet-ups. Taking place during May and June they will highlight the range of skills, expertise and activity across the N8 Research Partnership.

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plastic people counters on a network

UKRI Open Call for Covid-19 Researchers

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The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is seeing an increasing demand for computing resources. To help address this, UKRI have published a list of computing resources available across the UK.

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SUMMIT supercomputer in Oak Ridge California
SUMMIT supercomputer in Oak Ridge California

Women in HPC Carpentry Workshop - Review

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A brief review of the Women in HPC Carpentry Workshop delivered at the University of Sheffield in January 2020 written by Mozhgan Kabiri chimeh and Fouzhan Hosseini .

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hand on keyboard

Northern Intensive Computing Environment

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£8.4m supercomputing centre to be established in the north of England.

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HPC Carpentry Workshop

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N8 CIR is delighted to support a new HPC Carpentry Workshop initiative.

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hand on keyboard

Intro Events for the 2019 Academic Year

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Want to find out more about the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research, what we do and what we can offer researchers across N8?

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man at noticeboard

Geographic Information System (GIS) Training from N8 CIR

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A one-day introductory workshop for researchers in handling spatial data.

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city at night from above

N8 CIR ReproHacks

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A ReproHack is a one-day reproducibility hackathon. These events bring together researchers, RSEs and data scientists to reproduce papers from published scientific code and data.

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Software Sustainability Institute Fellowships 2020

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Applications are now open for the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme 2020! Deadline for applications is 29th October 2019.

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EPSRC - Open Call for Tier-2 HPC Access

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The information below is a brief overview of the application process and supporting information required for the EPSRC's call for open access to five of the UK's Tier-2 HPC Centres. Comprehensive guidance and documentation can be found on the EPSRC website by following links at the bottom of this page.

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