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.
Sharing our Work
Communicating the work of N8 CIR, our researchers and colleagues is a vital part of this project.
EPCC GPU Hackathon 2021
GPU Hackathons have become an increasingly important training and development opportunity for researchers and academics. Participants are able to work with national labs, universities and industry leaders to accelerate their AI research or HPC codes.
New Bede Application Process
From Tuesday 19 January there will be a new application process for Bede, intended to speed up applications and the approval process.
Bede is open for new users
2021 Code Performance Series: From analysis to insight
Performance analysis is at the core of the development of exascale software – to understand why software performs (or not) is the basis of any informed improvement of that same code.
Sheffield NVIDIA GPU Hackathon on Bede
From 27-31 July 2020 the University of Sheffield RSE team, led by Dr Paul Richmond, ran an NVIDIA-sponsored GPU hackathon. In addition to NVIDIA's internal GPU Hackathon cluster the event took the opportunity to be test users of the new N8 Bede system.
New RSE Theme Leader
We're delighted to welcome Marion Weinzierl who is joining N8 CIR as our new research software engineering theme leader.
Training surveys for the new academic year
Over the last year N8 CIR has delivered a well-received programme of training for both the Digital Humanities and Digital Health research communities.
Research Data Management Network - Launch Event
Humanities & Data Science Discussion Group
The next meeting of the Turing's discussion group on Humanities and Data Science will be on October 14, at 4pm London time.
Bede has been Formally Handed Over
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 Graduate Fellowship 2020
N8 CIR are Recruiting
N8 CIR Launches Training Provision Survey
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 Meet-ups 2020
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.
