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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.

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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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

Gillian Sinclair,

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

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Seal of Approval for Roadmaps

Gillian Sinclair,

Our Director recently reported to the N8 Strategic Executive Group.

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