Research Computing Services
@rcscambridge.bsky.social
Research Computing Services (RCS) at the University of Cambridge designs, deploys and maintains some of the world's most high performance computational and data storage systems.
At this Thursday's Cambridge Research Software Engineering talk, our own Astrid Scott-Bennett (RCS, University of Cambridge) will speak on 'CSD3: An Introduction to Data Centre Operations at Cambridge'.
Thursday 13th November at 1pm in Room C, West Hub and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Thursday 13th November at 1pm in Room C, West Hub and on Zoom.
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Seminars
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November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
At this Thursday's Cambridge Research Software Engineering talk, our own Astrid Scott-Bennett (RCS, University of Cambridge) will speak on 'CSD3: An Introduction to Data Centre Operations at Cambridge'.
Thursday 13th November at 1pm in Room C, West Hub and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Thursday 13th November at 1pm in Room C, West Hub and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
At this Thursday's Cambridge RSE talk, we’re delighted to welcome @oscarseip.bsky.social from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social (SSI) who will speak on: 'Communities, Capabilities, and Collaboration: How the SSI Supports Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities'
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
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November 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
At this Thursday's Cambridge RSE talk, we’re delighted to welcome @oscarseip.bsky.social from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social (SSI) who will speak on: 'Communities, Capabilities, and Collaboration: How the SSI Supports Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities'
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
At this Thursday's Cambridge RSE talk, we’re delighted to welcome Oscar Seip from the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) who will speak on: 'Communities, Capabilities, and Collaboration: How the SSI Supports Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities'
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
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November 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
At this Thursday's Cambridge RSE talk, we’re delighted to welcome Oscar Seip from the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) who will speak on: 'Communities, Capabilities, and Collaboration: How the SSI Supports Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities'
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Highlights from the HPC-SIG Hartree Meeting!
Gwen Dawes chaired a panel on “Federated Access Management for UK DRIs,” part of the NFCS Network+ MyAccessID project.
Chris Edsall & Deepak Aggarwal led an AI Container workshop with talks by Frederic Brochu-Williams & Adam Walford.
#HPC #AI #MyAccessID
Gwen Dawes chaired a panel on “Federated Access Management for UK DRIs,” part of the NFCS Network+ MyAccessID project.
Chris Edsall & Deepak Aggarwal led an AI Container workshop with talks by Frederic Brochu-Williams & Adam Walford.
#HPC #AI #MyAccessID
October 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Highlights from the HPC-SIG Hartree Meeting!
Gwen Dawes chaired a panel on “Federated Access Management for UK DRIs,” part of the NFCS Network+ MyAccessID project.
Chris Edsall & Deepak Aggarwal led an AI Container workshop with talks by Frederic Brochu-Williams & Adam Walford.
#HPC #AI #MyAccessID
Gwen Dawes chaired a panel on “Federated Access Management for UK DRIs,” part of the NFCS Network+ MyAccessID project.
Chris Edsall & Deepak Aggarwal led an AI Container workshop with talks by Frederic Brochu-Williams & Adam Walford.
#HPC #AI #MyAccessID
Our Cambridge Research Software Engineering seminars kick off this week. On Thursday, David Stansby (UCL Engineering) will speak about "Chunked file formats for massive imaging datasets".
Thursday 9th October at 1pm in Room E, West Hub, and on Zoom. All welcome!
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Thursday 9th October at 1pm in Room E, West Hub, and on Zoom. All welcome!
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Seminars
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October 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Our Cambridge Research Software Engineering seminars kick off this week. On Thursday, David Stansby (UCL Engineering) will speak about "Chunked file formats for massive imaging datasets".
Thursday 9th October at 1pm in Room E, West Hub, and on Zoom. All welcome!
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Thursday 9th October at 1pm in Room E, West Hub, and on Zoom. All welcome!
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
At Cross VISS, our Institute of Computing for Climate Science colleagues shone: Tom Meltzer on LLM-assisted debugging & Joe Wallwork, Surbhi Goel & Loïc Lannelongue on Green Software Engineering. 🌍💻
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
At Cross VISS, our Institute of Computing for Climate Science colleagues shone: Tom Meltzer on LLM-assisted debugging & Joe Wallwork, Surbhi Goel & Loïc Lannelongue on Green Software Engineering. 🌍💻
Our security team’s Wojciech Turek & Adrian Ramsingh joined the UK Trusted Research Environment Conference — 3 days of insights, discussions & networking. Learnings will help us strengthen secure, collaborative research.
September 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our security team’s Wojciech Turek & Adrian Ramsingh joined the UK Trusted Research Environment Conference — 3 days of insights, discussions & networking. Learnings will help us strengthen secure, collaborative research.
RCS’s Deepak Aggarwal & Frederic Brochu-Williams shared updates on MyAccessID governance & a federated AI container platform at the NFCS–NetworkPlus conference this week. Great discussions & feedback—next steps will shape the NFCS roadmap.N
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
RCS’s Deepak Aggarwal & Frederic Brochu-Williams shared updates on MyAccessID governance & a federated AI container platform at the NFCS–NetworkPlus conference this week. Great discussions & feedback—next steps will shape the NFCS roadmap.N
The RCS team had a fantastic week at #RSECon25! 🎉
We were proud to be joint Gold Sponsors with BriCS as part of the UK AI Research Resource (AIRR)—sharing in a talk and running a workshop on Dawn.
Highlights included talks from Marion Weinzierl and Joe Wallwork, plus our new Dawn lion mascots 🦁
We were proud to be joint Gold Sponsors with BriCS as part of the UK AI Research Resource (AIRR)—sharing in a talk and running a workshop on Dawn.
Highlights included talks from Marion Weinzierl and Joe Wallwork, plus our new Dawn lion mascots 🦁
September 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The RCS team had a fantastic week at #RSECon25! 🎉
We were proud to be joint Gold Sponsors with BriCS as part of the UK AI Research Resource (AIRR)—sharing in a talk and running a workshop on Dawn.
Highlights included talks from Marion Weinzierl and Joe Wallwork, plus our new Dawn lion mascots 🦁
We were proud to be joint Gold Sponsors with BriCS as part of the UK AI Research Resource (AIRR)—sharing in a talk and running a workshop on Dawn.
Highlights included talks from Marion Weinzierl and Joe Wallwork, plus our new Dawn lion mascots 🦁
It's a privilege to be one of this year's Gold Sponsors of #rsecon25!
RSECon25 is nearly upon us and it wouldn't be possible without our sponsors. Find out a little more about our Gold level sponsor Methods
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#rsecon25 #rse #warwick #conference
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September 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It's a privilege to be one of this year's Gold Sponsors of #rsecon25!
Yesterday, at the University of Bristol, the AI Research Resource (AIRR) officially launched — bringing serious compute power to UK researchers.
It includes Dawn at Cambridge and Isambard-AI, one of Europe’s most powerful AI supercomputers.
More from the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It includes Dawn at Cambridge and Isambard-AI, one of Europe’s most powerful AI supercomputers.
More from the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK's most powerful supercomputer Isambard-AI comes online
The Isambard-AI supercomputer is made fully operational as the government unveils fresh AI plans.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Yesterday, at the University of Bristol, the AI Research Resource (AIRR) officially launched — bringing serious compute power to UK researchers.
It includes Dawn at Cambridge and Isambard-AI, one of Europe’s most powerful AI supercomputers.
More from the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It includes Dawn at Cambridge and Isambard-AI, one of Europe’s most powerful AI supercomputers.
More from the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Research Computing Services team swapped servers for nostalgia yesterday at an away day at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge.
Great day for learning, sharing ideas, and connecting as a team!
Great day for learning, sharing ideas, and connecting as a team!
July 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Research Computing Services team swapped servers for nostalgia yesterday at an away day at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge.
Great day for learning, sharing ideas, and connecting as a team!
Great day for learning, sharing ideas, and connecting as a team!
June 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
At another poster session, Deepak Aggarwal shared his work, “Scaling AI Research Capabilities Through National Federated Infrastructure.”
June 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
At another poster session, Deepak Aggarwal shared his work, “Scaling AI Research Capabilities Through National Federated Infrastructure.”
Meanwhile, Surbhi Goel from the Institute of Computing for Climate Science presenting her poster, “Benchmarking Platform for Machine Learning-Based Spin-up of Ocean Model NEMO.”
June 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Meanwhile, Surbhi Goel from the Institute of Computing for Climate Science presenting her poster, “Benchmarking Platform for Machine Learning-Based Spin-up of Ocean Model NEMO.”
We’re having a fantastic time at #ISC25! The conference has just started, and already members of Research Computing Services have been on stage showcasing the incredible work we do.
Here’s Christopher Edsall presenting at the Dell Community meeting on the work we've been doing this year.
Here’s Christopher Edsall presenting at the Dell Community meeting on the work we've been doing this year.
June 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We’re having a fantastic time at #ISC25! The conference has just started, and already members of Research Computing Services have been on stage showcasing the incredible work we do.
Here’s Christopher Edsall presenting at the Dell Community meeting on the work we've been doing this year.
Here’s Christopher Edsall presenting at the Dell Community meeting on the work we've been doing this year.
Thank you to our Software Engineer, Simon Hartley, who delivered our lightning talk during the sponsors' session at #DurhamHPCDays. Great work!
June 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Thank you to our Software Engineer, Simon Hartley, who delivered our lightning talk during the sponsors' session at #DurhamHPCDays. Great work!
It’s been a busy time at #DurhamHPCDays for the team. Our Systems Engineer, Astrid, spoke about working on establishing a new #WHPC chapter. Meanwhile, Joe from @iccscambridge.bsky.social mbridge.bsky.social gave a talk on HPC and AI in weather and climate research.
June 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It’s been a busy time at #DurhamHPCDays for the team. Our Systems Engineer, Astrid, spoke about working on establishing a new #WHPC chapter. Meanwhile, Joe from @iccscambridge.bsky.social mbridge.bsky.social gave a talk on HPC and AI in weather and climate research.
We’re proud to sponsor this year’s #DurhamHPCDays and to see our own Tom Meltzer kicking things off.
We kick off #DurhamHPCDays today with a tutorial on FTorch by @rcscambridge.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We’re proud to sponsor this year’s #DurhamHPCDays and to see our own Tom Meltzer kicking things off.
In our last RSE seminar for the academic year, Miles Cranmer (DAMTP, University of Cambridge) will be speaking about Symbolic Regression for Model Discovery in Python and Julia.
Thursday 5th June at 1pm in the JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Thursday 5th June at 1pm in the JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
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June 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
In our last RSE seminar for the academic year, Miles Cranmer (DAMTP, University of Cambridge) will be speaking about Symbolic Regression for Model Discovery in Python and Julia.
Thursday 5th June at 1pm in the JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Thursday 5th June at 1pm in the JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Research Computing Services was proud to host the HPC Special Interest Group (HPC-SIG) Annual Meeting on May 21–22 2025 at the West Hub, University of Cambridge.
The event brought together UK academics and research computing professionals to explore the future of HPC and HTC.
🔗 bit.ly/44RlQxR
The event brought together UK academics and research computing professionals to explore the future of HPC and HTC.
🔗 bit.ly/44RlQxR
May 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Research Computing Services was proud to host the HPC Special Interest Group (HPC-SIG) Annual Meeting on May 21–22 2025 at the West Hub, University of Cambridge.
The event brought together UK academics and research computing professionals to explore the future of HPC and HTC.
🔗 bit.ly/44RlQxR
The event brought together UK academics and research computing professionals to explore the future of HPC and HTC.
🔗 bit.ly/44RlQxR
Dr Miren Radia, Research Software Engineer at Research Computing Services, presents his work on numerical relativity software during the AMReX session at the High Performance Software Foundation conference held in Chicago in May this year.
#HPC #NumericalRelativity #AMReX #ResearchSoftware
#HPC #NumericalRelativity #AMReX #ResearchSoftware
Numerical Relativity with AMReX - Miren Radia, University of Cambridge
YouTube video by HPSF
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May 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Dr Miren Radia, Research Software Engineer at Research Computing Services, presents his work on numerical relativity software during the AMReX session at the High Performance Software Foundation conference held in Chicago in May this year.
#HPC #NumericalRelativity #AMReX #ResearchSoftware
#HPC #NumericalRelativity #AMReX #ResearchSoftware
We look forward to seeing you at the RSE Seminar this week.
Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill of York Plasma Institute will be telling us about Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter.
Thursday 22nd May at 1pm in JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
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Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill of York Plasma Institute will be telling us about Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter.
Thursday 22nd May at 1pm in JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
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Seminars
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May 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We look forward to seeing you at the RSE Seminar this week.
Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill of York Plasma Institute will be telling us about Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter.
Thursday 22nd May at 1pm in JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill of York Plasma Institute will be telling us about Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter.
Thursday 22nd May at 1pm in JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars
Featuring Miren Radia (bottom left photo), one of our team's Research Software Engineers, who spoke at #HPSF on Numerical Relativity with AMReX.
May 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Featuring Miren Radia (bottom left photo), one of our team's Research Software Engineers, who spoke at #HPSF on Numerical Relativity with AMReX.
We look forward to seeing you at the RSE Seminar, where Peichao Qin (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge) will be speaking on "A Modular Character Recognition Solution for Ancient Scripts".
Thursday 15th May at 1pm, JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
Thursday 15th May at 1pm, JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
Seminars
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May 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We look forward to seeing you at the RSE Seminar, where Peichao Qin (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge) will be speaking on "A Modular Character Recognition Solution for Ancient Scripts".
Thursday 15th May at 1pm, JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.
Thursday 15th May at 1pm, JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre and on Zoom.