Blog Archive

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Training › Recording and exporting conda environments for Python
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 ›

Training › A Journey into Parallel Python - Episode 1
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 ›

Training › Autumn 2023 Training Courses now open
Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

Training › Summer 2023 Training Courses now open
Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

RSE › Building an R package for the Nutrient Profile Model
Read about a recent RSE project that looked at building an R package and some tips along the way. Read More ›

HPC › Using Conda or Spack to install geospatial R packages on ARC4
Installing geospatial R packages can be challenging on HPC, conda provides on possible solution to this problem. Read More ›

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

Recruitment › Opportunities with the Research Computing team
We'll soon be advertising some opportunities to join our team. Read more to find out what we're about! Read More ›

Training › Spring 2023 Training Courses now open
Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

Adventures with WSL2/Spack/Apptainer
A roundabout tinker with useful with tools to install research software Read More ›

That's a wrap on 2022! › A year in review: 2022
A final post from the team looking back on 2022. Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › What if Santa lives on an Earth-twin exoplanet in an elliptical orbit?
Blog post number 12 in our 12 days of HPC series from Astrophysics (Physics & Astronomy)! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Bringing the Christmas dinner home in ten minutes
Blog post number 11 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Computing and Faculty of Biological Sciences! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Bacterial Christmas Cake
Blog post number 10 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Computing! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Graph yourself a merry little Christmas
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Where is the source?
Blog post number 8 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Environment! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Not all seniors can afford reindeer rides!
Blog post number 7 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Geography! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Is metabolism to blame for ethnic-differences in disease risk?
Blog post number 6 in our 12 days of HPC series from Food Science and Nutrition! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › AI is not just for Christmas: Using image-recognition to analyse exoplanetary atmospheric models.
Blog post number 5 in our 12 days of HPC series from Physics (Astrophysics)! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Using ARC for virtual high-throughput ligand discovery: A journey through time 2009-2022​ ​
Blog post number 4 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Biological Sciences ! Read More ›

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

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Bunnimolecular Simulations!
Blog post number 2 in our 12 days of HPC series from Physics, Maths, Biology, Computer Science, Medicine! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2022 › Jingle bells, stabbing cells, stealing their mRNA, turn them red, to check they're injected, then come back another day...
Blog post number 1 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC is back! › Announcing 12 Days of HPC 2022
Submit your HPC story and we'll showcase our amazing users during our festive blog series in December Read More ›

RSE › International RSE Day 2022
Celebrating RSEs and their contribution to science at Leeds Read More ›

Training › Winter 2022 Training Courses now open
Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

Training › Summer 2022 Training Courses now open
Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

Training › Spring 2022 Training Courses now open
Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Understanding little angle warriors and demons in our body using the power of NGS
Blog post number 19 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Medicine and Health! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › All I want for Christmas is (a GP)U... for running my models for melanoma patient outcome prediction
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › All I Want for Christmas is Better Air Quality
Blog post number 17 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Earth & Environment - Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Subclone deconvolution is coming to town!
Blog post number 16 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute of Medical Research! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Developing a polygenic risk score for severe COVID-19
Blog post number 15 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute for Data Analytics! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Festive Tension
Blog post number 14 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Biological Sciences! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Learning to go down in life: A tale of root gravitropism
Blog post number 13 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Computing and Faculty of Biological Sciences! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Making mRNA translation investigation more accessible on ARC4
Blog post number 12 in our 12 days of HPC series from LeedsOmics (FBS & FMH)! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Sustai-noel conversion of carbon dioxide
Blog post number 11 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Chemistry! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Discovering the genetic basis of the human heart's shape and function
Blog post number 10 in our 12 days of HPC series from Computing! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Understanding the effect of digital communication on firm performance with machine learning
Blog post number 9 in our 12 days of HPC series from Marketing! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › 'Dashing through' computational modelling to understand bacterial biofilm chemis-'tree'
Blog post number 8 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Food Science & Nutrition! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Catching the Misinformation Grinch
Blog post number 7 in our 12 days of HPC series from Faculty of Science Sciences and School of Languages Cultures & Societies! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › 500 birds of Christmas
Blog post number 6 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Geography on identifying birds using cutting hedge technology! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Easy-peasy
Blog post number 5 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of languages, culture and societies, Centre for translation studies! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Predicting what they will share
Blog post number 4 in our 12 days of HPC series from School of Languages! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › The holly and the myosin-5-ey
Blog post number 3 in our 12 days of HPC series from Astbury Centre/Biological Sciences/Physics/Maths/Computer Science! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › Modelling and simulation of blood flow as well as its interaction with surrounding tissues and medical implants
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC 2021 › This year, Santa’s bringing new open co- 'ho ho ho' –hort designs to clinical trials!
Blog post number 1 in our 12 days of HPC series from Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Announcing 12 Days of HPC 2021
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 ›

Training › Winter Training Courses now open
Places are now available for upcoming Research Computing training courses, sign up now! Read More ›

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

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

🎄12 Days of HPC › Mind your language
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › What do your emojis say about you
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Brain Cancer Code Crackers
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Bacterial biofilms growing like trees in a forest
Blog post number 12 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using the HPC to study bacterial biofilms! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Earths Jet streams - How Santa is really able to get around the World in one night
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Improving Santa’s workshop’s design process
Blog post number 10 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at using machine learning to improve the product design process! Read More ›

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

🎄12 Days of HPC › Hot Jupiters to warm your cold winter
Blog post number 8 in our 12 days of HPC series showing how HPC is used to study some extreme exoplanets! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › A whole world of cloud patterns are coming to you this Christmas
Blog post number 7 in our 12 days of HPC series showing how HPC is used to study clouds and the climate! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Could Santa live on exoplanets?
Blog post number 6 in our 12 days of HPC series showing how the HPC us used to study exoplanets! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Fats Proteins and Salt: The Perfect Christmas Dinner All Inside A Computer
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 ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › On the 4th day of christmas the HPC gave to me: An expansive computational sweep of the relevant experimental design parameters in order to increase our understanding of the formation mechanisms of globular protein-based hydrogels...in a pear tree
Blog post number 4 in our 12 days of HPC series looking at the physics of biomaterials! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Tis the season (for surfactant solutions) to be jelly (like)
Blog post number 3 in our 12 days of HPC series is all about surfactant solutions! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Now bring us a YIG'y pudding
Blog post number 2 in our 12 days of HPC series and we're off to learn about YIGs! Read More ›

🎄12 Days of HPC › Reindeer dynein pulls Santa round the cell
The first blog post in our 12 days of HPC blog series looking at molecular motors! Read More ›

Digital Humanities › Using Microsimulation techniques to forecast future police demand
An RSE case study of a project developing an implementation of microsimulation techniques to forecast future police demand. Read More ›

Using HPC › COVID-19 and Folding@Home
Helping COVID-19 research using HPC and configuring old systems to run new code. Read More ›

Using HPC › Deep Learning for Games
Replicating DeepMinds work applying deep learning to the computer game StarCraft II using GPUs on the HPC at Leeds. Read More ›