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blog – 2024-08-29 - Training

Maeve Murphy Quinlan

Recording and exporting conda environments for Python

Blog Knowing how best to balance reproducibility and reuseability can be difficult when exporting conda environments. How can you ensure dependencies are recorded but also ensure restrictive versioning doesn't prevent you from rebuilding a conda env? Read More ›

blog – 2023-10-19 - Training

Patricia Ternes

A Journey into Parallel Python - Episode 1

Blog Ready to supercharge your Python skills? Embark on a journey into the world of parallel Python with our first episode in this blog series. Read More ›

blog – 2023-09-22 - Training

Patricia Ternes

Autumn 2023 Training Courses now open

Blog Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

blog – 2023-06-01 - Training

Patricia Ternes

Summer 2023 Training Courses now open

Blog Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

blog – 2023-04-25 - RSE

Alex Coleman

Building an R package for the Nutrient Profile Model

Blog Read about a recent RSE project that looked at building an R package and some tips along the way. Read More ›

blog – 2023-04-19 - HPC

Alex Coleman & John Hodrien

Using Conda or Spack to install geospatial R packages on ARC4

Blog Installing geospatial R packages can be challenging on HPC, conda provides on possible solution to this problem. Read More ›

blog – 2023-04-05 - Training

Alex Coleman

GitHub Codespaces for teaching

Blog GitHub Codespaces offering an interesting option for easy to spin up computational teaching environments Read More ›

blog – 2023-04-05 - Recruitment

Alex Coleman

Opportunities with the Research Computing team

Blog We'll soon be advertising some opportunities to join our team. Read more to find out what we're about! Read More ›

blog – 2023-01-30 - Training

Alex Coleman

Spring 2023 Training Courses now open

Blog Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

blog 2023-01-16 -

Research Computing

Adventures with WSL2/Spack/Apptainer

Blog A roundabout tinker with useful with tools to install research software Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-15 - That's a wrap on 2022!

Research Computing

A year in review: 2022

Blog A final post from the team looking back on 2022. Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-12 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Binghan Liu

What if Santa lives on an Earth-twin exoplanet in an elliptical orbit?

Blog Blog post number 12 in our 12 days of HPC series from Astrophysics (Physics & Astronomy)! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-11 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Sujit Kumar Nath

Bringing the Christmas dinner home in ten minutes

Blog Blog post number 11 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Computing and Faculty of Biological Sciences! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-10 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

David Head

Bacterial Christmas Cake

Blog Blog post number 10 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Computing! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-09 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Lucy Godson

Graph yourself a merry little Christmas

Blog Blog post number 9 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of computing (as a PhD student @ CDT for AI for Medical Diagnosis and Care)! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-08 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Pedro Alejandro Espín Bedón

Where is the source?

Blog Blog post number 8 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Environment! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-07 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Manon Prédhumeau

Not all seniors can afford reindeer rides!

Blog Blog post number 7 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Geography! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-06 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Michael Zulyniak

Is metabolism to blame for ethnic-differences in disease risk?

Blog Blog post number 6 in our 12 days of HPC series from Food Science and Nutrition! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-05 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Felix Sainsbury-Martinez

AI is not just for Christmas: Using image-recognition to analyse exoplanetary atmospheric models.

Blog Blog post number 5 in our 12 days of HPC series from Physics (Astrophysics)! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-04 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Katie Simmons

Using ARC for virtual high-throughput ligand discovery: A journey through time 2009-2022​ ​

Blog Blog post number 4 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Biological Sciences ! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-03 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Kausik Chaudhuri

Blog Blog post number 3 in our 12 days of HPC series from Economics! Read More ›

blog – 2022-12-01 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2022

Georgette Tanner

Jingle bells, stabbing cells, stealing their mRNA, turn them red, to check they're injected, then come back another day...

Blog Blog post number 1 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's! Read More ›

blog – 2022-11-09 - 🎄12 Days of HPC is back!

Alex Coleman

Announcing 12 Days of HPC 2022

Blog Submit your HPC story and we'll showcase our amazing users during our festive blog series in December Read More ›

blog – 2022-10-13 - RSE

Alex Coleman

International RSE Day 2022

Blog Celebrating RSEs and their contribution to science at Leeds Read More ›

blog – 2022-09-27 - Training

Alex Coleman

Winter 2022 Training Courses now open

Blog Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

blog – 2022-06-07 - Training

Alex Coleman

Summer 2022 Training Courses now open

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blog – 2022-02-21 - Training

Alex Coleman

Spring 2022 Training Courses now open

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blog – 2021-12-19 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Dr Suparna Mitra

Understanding little angle warriors and demons in our body using the power of NGS

Blog Blog post number 19 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Medicine and Health! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-18 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Lucy Godson

All I want for Christmas is (a GP)U... for running my models for melanoma patient outcome prediction

Blog Blog post number 18 in our 12 days of HPC series from Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis and Care! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-17 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Connor Clayton

All I Want for Christmas is Better Air Quality

Blog Blog post number 17 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Earth & Environment - Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-16 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Lucy Stead

Subclone deconvolution is coming to town!

Blog Blog post number 16 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute of Medical Research! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-15 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Natalie Chaddock

Developing a polygenic risk score for severe COVID-19

Blog Blog post number 15 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute for Data Analytics! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-14 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Alexandra Holmes

Festive Tension

Blog Blog post number 14 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Biological Sciences! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-13 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Sujit Kumar Nath

Learning to go down in life: A tale of root gravitropism

Blog Blog post number 13 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Computing and Faculty of Biological Sciences! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-12 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Elton Vasconcelos

Making mRNA translation investigation more accessible on ARC4

Blog Blog post number 12 in our 12 days of HPC series from LeedsOmics (FBS & FMH)! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-11 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Dr David Santos-Carballal

Sustai-noel conversion of carbon dioxide

Blog Blog post number 11 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Chemistry! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-10 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Rodrigo Bonazzola

Discovering the genetic basis of the human heart's shape and function

Blog Blog post number 10 in our 12 days of HPC series from Computing! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-09 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Ashutosh Singh

Understanding the effect of digital communication on firm performance with machine learning

Blog Blog post number 9 in our 12 days of HPC series from Marketing! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-08 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Oliver Hills

'Dashing through' computational modelling to understand bacterial biofilm chemis-'tree'

Blog Blog post number 8 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Food Science & Nutrition! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-07 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Daniel Valdenegro

Catching the Misinformation Grinch

Blog Blog post number 7 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Science Sciences and School of Languages Cultures & Societies! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-06 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Sofia Biffi

500 birds of Christmas

Blog Blog post number 6 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Geography on identifying birds using cutting hedge technology! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-05 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Nouran Khallaf

Easy-peasy

Blog Blog post number 5 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of languages, culture and societies, Centre for translation studies! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-04 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Serge Sharoff

Predicting what they will share

Blog Blog post number 4 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Languages! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-03 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

FFEA Research Group (Ryan Cocking, Molly Gravett, Oliver Harlen, Sarah Harris, Joanna Leng, Michelle Peckham, Daniel Read & Jarvellis Rogers)

The holly and the myosin-5-ey

Blog Blog post number 3 in our 12 days of HPC series from Astbury Centre/Biological Sciences/Physics/Maths/Computer Science! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-02 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Yongxing Wang

Modelling and simulation of blood flow as well as its interaction with surrounding tissues and medical implants

Blog Blog post number 2 in our 12 days of HPC series from Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine (CISTIB) Group within the School of Computing! Read More ›

blog – 2021-12-01 - 🎄12 Days of HPC 2021

Laura Marsden

This year, Santa’s bringing new open co- 'ho ho ho' –hort designs to clinical trials!

Blog Blog post number 1 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research! Read More ›

blog – 2021-11-10 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Alex Coleman

Announcing 12 Days of HPC 2021

Blog Back for 2021 is our 12 Days of HPC festive blog series! Do you have a good HPC story to share? Submit it now! Read More ›

blog – 2021-10-19 - Training

Alex Coleman

Winter Training Courses now open

Blog Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

blog – 2021-03-05 - RSE Showcase

Alex Coleman

Helping COVID modelling efforts

Blog Showcasing a recent RSE project to help encourage reproducible research practices in a COVID modelling project Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-18 - Events

Martin Callaghan

Spring 2021 TechTalks Series

Blog Come along to our Spring 2021 TechTalk series with a range of talks on Tools and Platforms Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-18 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Serge Sharoff

Mind your language

Blog One of our two final posts in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using the HPC to study language using AI! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-18 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Daniel Valdenegro

What do your emojis say about you

Blog One of our two final posts in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using the HPC to study emojis and emotions! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-17 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Lucy Stead

Brain Cancer Code Crackers

Blog Blog post number 13 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using the HPC to study gene expression differences during brain cancer! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-16 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

David Head

Bacterial biofilms growing like trees in a forest

Blog Blog post number 12 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using the HPC to study bacterial biofilms! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-15 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Jacob Perez

Earths Jet streams - How Santa is really able to get around the World in one night

Blog Blog post number 11 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using the HPC to study jet streams with climate models! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-14 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Thomas Hazlehurst

Improving Santa’s workshop’s design process

Blog Blog post number 10 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using machine learning to improve the product design process! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-11 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Claire Bartholomew

Predicting the rain, dear!

Blog Blog post number 9 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using Deep learning to help forecast rain! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-10 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Craig Duguid

Hot Jupiters to warm your cold winter

Blog Blog post number 8 in our 12 days of HPC series showing how HPC is used to study some extreme exoplanets! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-09 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Leif Denby

A whole world of cloud patterns are coming to you this Christmas

Blog Blog post number 7 in our 12 days of HPC series showing how HPC is used to study clouds and the climate! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-08 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Gregory Cooke

Could Santa live on exoplanets?

Blog Blog post number 6 in our 12 days of HPC series showing how the HPC us used to study exoplanets! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-07 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Alexandra Holmes

Fats Proteins and Salt: The Perfect Christmas Dinner All Inside A Computer

Blog Blog post number 5 in our 12 days of HPC series showing how HPC is used to simulate proteins interacting with biological membranes! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-03 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Rachel Hendrikse

Tis the season (for surfactant solutions) to be jelly (like)

Blog Blog post number 3 in our 12 days of HPC series is all about surfactant solutions! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-02 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Joseph Barker

Now bring us a YIG'y pudding

Blog Blog post number 2 in our 12 days of HPC series and we're off to learn about YIGs! Read More ›

blog – 2020-12-01 - 🎄12 Days of HPC

Molly Gravett

Reindeer dynein pulls Santa round the cell

Blog The first blog post in our 12 days of HPC blog series looking at molecular motors! Read More ›

blog – 2020-04-07 - Using HPC

John Hodrien

COVID-19 and Folding@Home

Blog Helping COVID-19 research using HPC and configuring old systems to run new code. Read More ›

blog – 2018-09-07 - Using HPC

Martin Callaghan

Deep Learning for Games

Blog Replicating DeepMinds work applying deep learning to the computer game StarCraft II using GPUs on the HPC at Leeds. Read More ›