N8 CIR Research Partnership: Advancing Computational Intensive Research
N8 CIR, a collaboration of 8 research-intensive universities in the North of England, aims to develop skills, facilitate access to computational resources, and accelerate research through practitioner-led approaches. The program focuses on various themes including Digital Health, Digital Humanities, and Research Infrastructure, offering training and events to support researchers. Researchers can access the Bede Tier 2 HPC facility for high-performance computing needs. Join N8 CIR to leverage computational and data-intensive practices for groundbreaking research.
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Introduction to N8 CIR Gillian Sinclair N8 CIR Programme Manager www.n8cir.org.uk 1
Who are we? N8 Research Partnership is the 8 most research intensive universities in the North of England Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York N8 Centre of Excellence for Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) Derived from N8 HPC (2012 2018) which offered access to a shared compute platform for all 8 universities for 6 years. Established to build on this partnership to expand the art of the possible within research themes by leveraging computational- and data-intensive practice. www.n8cir.org.uk 2
N8 CIR Aims Develop skills across the partner organisations Develop shared software Facilitate access to computational resources Leverage funding for computationally intensive research Help non-traditional users access computational resources Accelerate research! 3 www.n8cir.org.uk
Practitioner-led approach Important not to re-invent the wheel leverage what is already out there. Provide signposting & mechanism to share resources. Inspire researchers to embrace new methods through practitioner-led activity Provide forums for researchers to highlight their computational methods. Online researcher case studies Workshops and facilitated discussion Capture domain-specific examples to enhance existing material. Suggestions welcome! Help bring training available outside of the region, into the region Suggestions? 4 www.n8cir.org.uk
Our Themes Themes Digital Health Digital Humanities Research Software Engineers Research Infrastructure Engineers Machine Learning Health and Humanities in place since Spring 2019; Machine Learning launched Nov 2022 Wide variety of training / events for the Humanities including R, Python, web scraping, text analysis, visualisation, Machine Learning for Humanities and much more https://n8cir.org.uk/themes/digital-humanities/digital-humanities-resources/ Full details on our website and recordings on our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/N8CIR 5 www.n8cir.org.uk
Bede Tier 2 HPC Tier 2 supercomputer delivered in early 2020 Comprised of 32 IBM Power 9 dual-CPU nodes, each with 4 NVIDIA V100 GPUs and high performance interconnect https://n8cir.org.uk/supporting-research/facilities/bede/hardware/ All N8 researchers can apply for access to Bede Research Software Engineer support available at each institution to help you get started For more information and to apply - https://n8cir.org.uk/supporting-research/facilities/bede/ 6 www.n8cir.org.uk
Keep In Touch Website https://n8cir.org.uk/ Bede - https://n8cir.org.uk/bede/ Twitter - @N8CIR Join our mailing list at https://n8cir.org.uk/contact/ www.n8cir.org.uk 7
