Back in the spring of 2022, the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research’s ‘IT Needs of Active Research Survey’ was released, and four months later we provided summary results and actions that would be taken in response. The 2024 survey has just gone live (19th February), and we wanted to update you on the progress made. … Continue reading “IT Needs of Active Research Survey Progress – 18 months on”
Category: High Performance Computing
HPC Wire Award 2023 winners!
We are excited to announce that researchers who use our advanced computing facilities have been recognised as award winners in the HPCwire 2023 awards! Advanced Research Computing is very proud to provide the BEAR computing facilities to support life changing research at the University, which has again been internationally recognised in these highly competitive, global … Continue reading “HPC Wire Award 2023 winners!”
Bear On Tour (Professor Andrew Morris)
Our next researcher in the #BearonTour series is Andrew Morris, Professor of Computational Physics in the School of Metallurgy and Materials. His research group uses and develops quantum mechanical techniques for predicting the structure and properties of new materials using a computer. Andrew is also chair of the Research Computing Management Committee, a cross-college group … Continue reading “Bear On Tour (Professor Andrew Morris)”
Bear on Tour (Dr Anna Peacock)
Our next researcher in the #BearonTour series is Anna Peacock, Reader in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Anna’s group works at the interface of inorganic chemistry and peptide design in the School of Chemistry. Research portal ORCID Q1 – Tell me about your researchWe aim to design miniature artificial metalloproteins capable of function beyond what biology is capable … Continue reading “Bear on Tour (Dr Anna Peacock)”
We’re recruiting! Two Grade 9 ‘Principal’ Research Infrastructure Engineer posts
Join our brilliant Advanced Research Computing group at the University of Birmingham, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and on innovative research projects at a world-class university. Recent successes and secure funding mean we are growing. In the last year we’ve added Research Software Engineers, Research Data Scientists, a Graduate Systems Engineer and … Continue reading “We’re recruiting! Two Grade 9 ‘Principal’ Research Infrastructure Engineer posts”
BEAR Challenge 2023
Update 15/03/24: BEAR Challenge 2024 – registration open! If you are interested in joining BEAR Challenge 2024 and are either an undergraduate or masters student, from any discipline, please see our Eventbrite registration page for details. —- “The event was fun, challenging, and insightful. The best part was that it gave me an opportunity to … Continue reading “BEAR Challenge 2023”
Bear on Tour (Dr Hannah Nieto)
Our next researcher in the #BearonTour series is Hannah Nieto, Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR). Hannah works in the field of thyroid molecular genomics, and has an interest in thyroid cancer and bioinformatics. You can find links to Hannah’s research publications via the Research portal. Q1 – Tell … Continue reading “Bear on Tour (Dr Hannah Nieto)”
Bear on Tour (Dr Jenny Wong)
The next stop on our Bear on Tour series is the ISC23 (International Supercomputing)conference, held in May, hosted in the bear-utiful city of Hamburg, Germany. Jenny Wong, a SeniorResearch Software Engineer from BEAR Services, presented her work on space weatherforecasting (in conjunction with UoB’s SERENE group) as part of the Women in HPC track of … Continue reading “Bear on Tour (Dr Jenny Wong)”
Essential HPC tools – tmux
In this blog post on Advanced Research Computing tips, one of our Research Software Engineers, Dr James Allsopp, gives some tips on logging into Linux-based systems such as BlueBEAR and Baskerville, using tmux. Whenever I have to remote into a Linux-based system, one of the first things I look for is a program called tmux. … Continue reading “Essential HPC tools – tmux”
BEAR on Tour (Kit Windows-Yule)
Our next researcher in the #BearonTour series is Kit Windows-Yule, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering, a Turing Fellow and two-time Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow. Kit works jointly with the School of Physics and Astronomy’s Positron Imaging Centre. Research portal ORCID Q1 – Tell me about your researchMy research is highly diverse, but can be … Continue reading “BEAR on Tour (Kit Windows-Yule)”