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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.

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

N8 CIR are searching for a new RSE Theme Leader to continue the excellent work undertaken by Kirsty Pringle who has taken on a new position in Edinburgh.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

N8 CIR would like to invite members of the university training community to introductory events taking place at each of the N8 partners.

Mark Lundie from the University of Manchester, introduced N8 CIR to attendees at HPC@Sheffield.

Introducing Kirsty Pringle who will be leading the N8 CIR RSE Theme.

Our Director recently reported to the N8 Strategic Executive Group.

Find out more about our involvement in HPC@Sheffield on the 8th of April

If you previously used N8 HPC or another regional Tier 2 resource, UKRI want to hear from you.