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Past Events

The N8 CIR runs regular meetings to build communities of practice and research interests combined with training to improve the computational skills of the community. These are meetings that have been held in the last year. Selected recordings from these events can be found on our Event Resources pages.

16 — 20
SEP
2019

NVIDIA GPU Programming Course in 2 parts: Using CUDA Language and OpenACC Directives​

Registration is NOW CLOSED  5 day event   STFC Hartree Centre, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane,Warrington. WA4 4AD

A free course aimed at researchers from academic and government institutions, academic staff, and students with interest in GPU programming.

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05 SEP
2019

Machine Learning and Digital Humanities

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute

What is the role of the humanities in the age of machine learning? How can machine learning help humanities research? Can the humanities contribute to the development and critical evaluation of new machine learning methods?

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19 — 23
AUG
2019

Sheffield GPU Hackathon

Open calls closed - successful proposers will be notified on 1 July  5 day event   Halifax Hall, Sheffield

Do you and your colleagues have an application that you’d like to optimise for use with GPU accelerators? If so then the Sheffield GPU Hackathon could be the perfect event for you.

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07 — 09
AUG
2019

Parallel Design Patterns @ EPCC Durham

Registration is NOW CLOSED  3 day event   The Palatine Centre, Durham

If you were given a serial problem, conceptually, how would you go about splitting it up into many different parts that could run concurrently on the latest parallel computers?

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12 JUL
2019

N8 CIR Trainers' Meet Up - Lancaster University

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   InfoLab C60b/c, Lancaster University

N8 CIR is creating a Centre of Excellence in the methods, skills and facilities that underpin the research objectives of the N8 universities.

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10 — 11
JUL
2019

Practical Software Development

Registration is NOW CLOSED  2 day event   University of Leeds

This course introduces how software development projects can be approached to achieve high-quality software products.

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10 JUL
2019

N8 CIR Trainers' Meet Up - University of Sheffield

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   University of Sheffield, HRI Conference Room

N8 CIR is creating a Centre of Excellence in the methods, skills and facilities that underpin the research objectives of the N8 universities.

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09 JUL
2019

Research Software Engineers' Meet Up

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   The Studio, Leeds

The N8 Centre of Excellence for Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) is pleased to invite you to an event showcasing some of the work of research software engineers across the N8 partnership.

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08 JUL
2019

N8 CIR Trainers' Meet Up - University of Liverpool

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   University of Liverpool, SR1 Sherrington Building

N8 CIR is creating a Centre of Excellence in the methods, skills and facilities that underpin the research objectives of the N8 universities.

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05 JUL
2019

N8 CIR Trainers' Meet Up - Newcastle University

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Seminar Room 3.39, The Armstrong Building, Newcastle University

N8 CIR is creating a Centre of Excellence in the methods, skills and facilities that underpin the research objectives of the N8 universities.

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03 JUL
2019

N8 CIR Trainers' Meet Up - Durham University

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   E245, Higginson Building - Durham University

N8 CIR is creating a Centre of Excellence in the methods, skills and facilities that underpin the research objectives of the N8 universities.

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02 JUL
2019

N8 CIR Trainers' Meet Up - University of Manchester

Registration is NOW CLOSED  1 day event   Congregation Room, Vaughan House

N8 CIR is creating a Centre of Excellence in the methods, skills and facilities that underpin the research objectives of the N8 universities.

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