2019 Research Software Engineers Conference Some of the ARC team have been busy organising the 2019 UK Research Software Engineers Conference which was held at the University 17-19 September. In total, 360 delegates gathered in the Great Hall for three days of talks and workshops centred on super computing and software engineering. The Conference … Continue reading “ARC Team help organise Research Software Engineers Conference”
Category: BEAR
John Owen retires after 42 years
Head of Advanced Research Computing (ARC), John Owen finally retired on Friday 26th July. John spent 42 years working at the University, although he has been here even longer than that having arrived here as a fresh-faced physics undergraduate in 1972. At an event organised in his honour, John was joined by well wishers from … Continue reading “John Owen retires after 42 years”
BEAR Challenge 2019
Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) ran their annual BEAR Challenge for students on 25-27th June. The Challenge presented a one-of-a-kind opportunity for Uundergrad and Postgrad taught students to meet with and learn from some of BEAR’s suppliers including IBM, Lenovo, Mellanox, OCF and the Advanced Research Computing team. Almost 30 students, split into six … Continue reading “BEAR Challenge 2019”
Paul Hatton retires after exceptionally long service
Long ago, before many of you were born – back when 1.44 MB on a floppy disc and beating your office mates to the shared terminal were the things that the occupants of the Computer Centre dreamed of – a bright young engineer named Paul Hatton joined IT Services from Cambridge University, via Rolls Royce … Continue reading “Paul Hatton retires after exceptionally long service”
IT Services Launches BEAR Cloud for Research
We are delighted to announce the launch of BEAR Cloud — an ‘on demand’ service for computationally/data intensive research, developed by the Research Computing Team in IT Services To celebrate, a one day conference took place in the Bramall Concert Hall on Friday 21st October. The event, opened by Professor Tim Softley, PVC for Research and … Continue reading “IT Services Launches BEAR Cloud for Research”