News and announcements

Newsletter: More opportunities for you to help shape the programme

by Fiona | Apr 12, 2019 | Databases, Edge compute, Event, Innovation community, Newsletter, Projects, Research networking and collaboration, Restricted data

The importance of community engagement in this process is clear to us in defining our future aims and actions. We want to ensure that the programme’s goals reflect the requirements and desires of the University’s research community so we encourage all to participate in our upcoming engagements.

Newsletter: Our £1 million HPC investment and upcoming events

by Fiona | Mar 29, 2019 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, HPC, Innovation community, Newsletter, Projects, Restricted data

Much has been happening within the programme over the last couple of weeks. We have events for three different projects, so there’s likely to be something of interest for most people, whether this is compute capacity, innovation or restricted data.

High Performance Compute Resources Investment

by Fiona | Mar 28, 2019 | Compute capacity and resources, HPC, Projects

As part of the Research Lifecycle Programme, the University of Manchester has made a £1 million investment into computational resource to further enable research across all faculties and institutes.

Newsletter: Investments, developments, community engagement and a new website

by Fiona | Mar 18, 2019 | Compute capacity and resources, Newsletter, Professional Services, Projects

We have plenty of news for you in this week’s issue, including a message from another new colleague, news about increased compute capability, developing a community of practise and our new website.

A few words from a new colleague…

by Ellie | Feb 28, 2019 | Newsletter, Research IT strategy and architecture

We begin this week’s newsletter by announcing the imminent launch of our revamped Research Lifecycle Programme website.

Newsletter: Research IT innovation community

by Mike | Feb 19, 2019 | Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Edge compute, Event, HPC, Innovation community, Newsletter

If you were unable to attend our ‘Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme’ event last week, there’s a recording available for you to download. Also, we introduce the Innovation Community lead for one of our projects. Lunch with the Research Lifecycle We held our...

Presentations: Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme

by Mike | Feb 5, 2019 | Compute capacity and resources, HPC, Presentation

A recording of our February event is available for download, including a presentation about compute capabilities, high performance computing, cloud services and more. On Tuesday 5 February, Simon Hood from Research IT delivered a presentation about how the Research...

Newsletter: Progress on projects and another invitation

by Mike | Feb 1, 2019 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Research networking and collaboration

At the time of writing, there are just 7 places left at our Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme event next Tuesday. There are also more developments on some of our other projects. Incrementally build compute capacity (Project M) and Improve access to compute...

Newsletter: New Year, New Appointments!

by Mike | Jan 18, 2019 | Event, Innovation community, Newsletter, Research IT strategy and architecture

We’re not only welcoming in the new year at the Research Lifecycle Programme - the change team is coming together and as such we will be welcoming new colleagues through some new appointments.The positions we’ve filled are as follows:Enterprise Architect – Project P...

Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme

by Mike | Jan 9, 2019 | Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Edge compute, Event, HPC

Join the programme team at their event in February for information about compute capabilities, high performance computing, cloud services and more The Research Lifecycle is a five-year programme of investments to support the University in meeting its goal of being one...