Baskerville Supercomputing Centre and the Institute for Data and AI (IDAI) are giving University of Birmingham users early access to the Baskerville National Compute Resource (NCR), from October 2026, as alpha and beta testers, before the machine is fully running from April 2027. The service is likely to be interrupted until final testing is complete. The technical specification of … Continue reading “Early access: Baskerville National Compute Resource”
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June 2026 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter Last week we were excited to welcome 60 undergraduate and taught postgraduate students to BEAR Challenge 2026! Supported by many members of the ARC team, they experienced High Performance Computing (HPC) for the first time and heard about career opportunities in this field. The successful event was part of … Continue reading “June 2026 BEAR Newsletter”
July 2025 BEAR Newsletter
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Newsletter July sees us nearing the end of a busy training, events, and conference season – we look forward to meeting new members of staff at the central induction event on Monday 21 July in the Great Hall. Three members of the team attended STEP-UP RSLondon last week, including myself, who … Continue reading “July 2025 BEAR Newsletter”
IDAI ‘Pump Prime Funding’ spotlight
In Advanced Research Computing, we collaborate closely with the Institute for Data and AI (IDAI) and will be featuring a series of guest posts by Joshua Panteli, who has several roles at the University of Birmingham, as Project Manager for IDAI and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA), as well as being … Continue reading “IDAI ‘Pump Prime Funding’ spotlight”
‘Data and AI for researchers’ at the University’s first Data Conference
On Wednesday 26 February, the University’s inaugural Data Conference was held. With a series of talks and interactive sessions covering advice and tips on handling data, and a focus on building a community of data professionals, we ran a session in collaboration with the Institute for Data and AI entitled ‘Research and AI for researchers’. … Continue reading “‘Data and AI for researchers’ at the University’s first Data Conference”