News
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.
Machine Learning
Digital Research Infrastructure Retreat 2024
We are hosting a five-day retreat comprising panel discussions and group sessions for technology specialists to develop soft skills and network with peers on the 18th - 22nd March, 2024.
Visualisation Workshops
N8 CIR has organised two new workshops for visualisation software GlueViz and Paraview.
N8 CIR Materials Integrated into Post-Graduate Course at the University of Manchester
The N8 CIR were recently approached to share one of their presentations for integration into a taught course at the University of Manchester.
Cloud-SPAN Genomics
Do you need to analyse more genomic data than your own computer can handle? If you would like to use High Performance Computing for genomics but don't know where to start then the Cloud-SPAN Genomics Course is for you!
Vacancy at the University of Manchester
The University of Manchester has a vacancy for a research software engineer working with the Greater Manchester AI Foundry.
Reprohack Hub Launch
Reprohack is back and better than ever! Thursday 18 November 2021 marks the launch of the Reprohack Hub and the return of Reprohack - the open science and reproducibility hackathon.
Ethics in Computational Research
Bede Training Resources and Support
Bede is the N8’s newest high-performance computing platform. It has a GPU-accelerated architecture that makes it ideal for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.
N8 CIR pushes for diversity in High Performance Computing
The N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) has officially been recognised as a chapter of Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC), the organisation at the vanguard of promoting women in the HPC community across academia and industry.
Research Data Management
Research data management is a vital component of modern research practices. Our research data management network was formed towards the end of 2020 to help build a community and raise awareness of best practice.
Research Software Engineering
One of the key goals of N8 CIR is to ensure that researchers are able to develop the skills they need to access high performance computing (HPC) and embed it in their work.
Job Vacancy - N8 CIR RIE Theme Leader
The N8 CIR is establishing a community of professional IT staff who are focused on specialist infrastructure in support of research — research infrastructure engineers (RIEs). We are recruiting an RIE Theme Leader to coordinate this activity.
Six Month Training Surveys
One of the key goals of N8 CIR is to increase the use of computationally intensive methods in academic research.
Suffrage Science
International Women’s Day 2021 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Engineering and Physical Science’s ‘Suffrage Science’ Scheme.