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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.

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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N8 CIR Trainers' Meet Ups

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

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Introducing N8 CIR to the Community

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

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Ethernet cables

Introducing the N8 CIR RSE Theme Lead

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

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Seal of Approval for Roadmaps

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Our Director recently reported to the N8 Strategic Executive Group.

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N8 CIR and HPC@Sheffield

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

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binary code in blue

Previous User of Regional HPC Resources?

Gillian Sinclair,

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

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