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Large Data Image Reconstruction and Visualisation - Turing Summer School

Martin Turner, 20 Mar 2020

Collaborative Computational Project in Tomographic Imaging (ccpi.ac.uk) includes a dedicated team of Software Engineers focusing, through development of a Core Imaging Library (CIL), to provide the UK tomography community with a toolbox of algorithms that increases the quality and level of information that can be extracted.

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Using Mobile Games to Test Hypotheses in Biological Timing

Adrian Harwood, 18 Mar 2020

The Brighter Time mobile app, developed by the Research IT Mobile Development Service (MDS) featured as part of the University’s contribution to British Science Week this year. Find out more about how we helped researchers from the Centre For Biological Timing showcase their research.

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Improving Cancer Radiotherapy Treatment

ritnews, 3 Mar 2020

Members of Research IT’s Research Infrastructure Group have been working with the Proton Therapy research group (PRECISE) led by Prof. Karen Kirby at The Christie Hospital to improve clinical dose prescriptions in radiotherapy.

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Installing apps on macOS Catalina (10.15)

ritnews, 2 Mar 2020

The top tip for March by Ian Cottam, Head of Research Software Engineering, looks at installing apps on macOS Catalina (10.15) that have not been authorised or certified by Apple.

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Research IT March Costing Clinic

ritnews, 28 Feb 2020

It’s really important that you include all the Research IT services you require in your research grant application AND that you talk to us before you submit your application. This allows us to plan accordingly and to make sure that the effort and support are available at the right time if your grant application is successful.


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Upcoming Drop-in Sessions

ritnews, 27 Feb 2020

At Research IT we know how busy researchers are, and how talking face to face can be the easiest way to communicate a problem or complex research idea. That’s why every other Wednesday in term-time we host drop-in sessions across campus so you can talk to our experts in person about anything research computing related.

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New Cutting Edge GPU Resource

ritnews, 25 Feb 2020

Researchers at the University of Manchester will have access to a new computational resource this summer. N8 CIR was successful in bidding for a new Tier 2 computational resource in the EPSRC Tier 2 HPC call which took place in Autumn last year.

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Research IT Club February Presentations

ritnews, 20 Feb 2020

Thank you to everyone who came along to the first Research IT club of 2020. If you were unable to attend, all the presentations are now available at the links below. We had some great presentations on how our new digital image comparison and what the introduction of Office 365 will mean for researchers.

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Research IT Club - IT Modernisation

ritnews, 3 Feb 2020

Come along to the first Research IT club of 2020 on the 12th of Feb to hear about the IT Modernisation Programme and how it will interact with the University research community.


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Virtual Environments Top Tips

ritnews, 3 Feb 2020

Virtual Environments are a tool for isolating and tracking the software packages that you use for your work. Why is this useful to you? Let Research Software Engineers Douglas Lowe and Ann Gledson explain!

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Want to Run a Million R Jobs?

ritnews, 31 Jan 2020

Find out how our Research Infrastructure Engineers helped a researcher from Division of Cardiovascular Sciences run a million R jobs on confidential data in weeks rather than months.

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Open Source Interaction and Data Visualisation Tool Launched

ritnews, 23 Jan 2020

As part of the BBC Data Partnership, Joshua Woodcock, a Research Software Engineer in Research IT, developed the Interaction Data Visualisation Tool, (IDVT); a web-based data visualisation tool for the initial analysis of low-level interaction data taken from object-based user experiences.

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