A big thank you to our Research Software Engineering team for their excellent work as support RSEs at last week's Cross-Community AMD GPU Hackathon in Birmingham, organised through the DiRAC training programme. Great to see such strong collaboration between researchers, RSEs and industry experts.

Th RCS team will be at the Cross-Community AMD GPU Hackathon (11–13 March, Birmingham), helping researchers port and optimise scientific codes for AMD GPUs alongside DiRAC and AMD. Looking forward to supporting some great research software dirac.ac.uk/training_eve... #HPC #GPUs #ResearchSoftware

🚀 This week's Research Software Engineering seminar, given by Mosè Giordano - Principal Research Software Engineer at UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) – takes place at 13:00-14:00 on Thursday 12 March in person and online: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

RSE Seminar Oliver Elbert (NOAA) — “NDSL: A Programming Framework for Climate Model Development” Thu 5 Mar 2026 13:00–14:00 Room C, West Hub, Cambridge Full schedule: rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars Previous talks: www.youtube.com/@CambridgeRSE

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We are thrilled to share that the University of Cambridge has secured a major £36 million government investment to expand our Dawn AI Research Resource supercomputer — increasing its capacity sixfold by spring 2026. 👉 bit.ly/4qZif9j

Government funding boost for Cambridge supercomputer

•    £36 million investment to increase the AI Research Resource supercomputing capacity at Cambridge sixfold by spring 2026. •   More cutting-edge AI chips

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At this Thursday's Cambridge RSE Seminar, Matt Graham from @ucl-arc.bsky.social will be speaking to us about 'Automatic differentiation – an RSE's eye view'. This Thursday 20 November at 1pm. West Hub, and on Zoom. rse.group.cam.ac.uk/seminars Previous talks here: www.youtube.com/@CambridgeRSE

Please visit us later this week at the UK Universities booth to learn more about our research and activities.

The latest AIRR (Dawn and Isambard AI) access opportunity is now open: bit.ly/4peyFJm This call supports much larger projects than the existing routes, offering up to 150,000 GPU hours over six months. A great opportunity for ambitious AI and compute-intensive research teams to scale their work.

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Apply for up to 150,000 graphics processing unit hours on the Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 🦁

It's a privilege to be one of this year's Gold Sponsors of #rsecon25!

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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 rsecon25.society-rse.org/about-our-sp... #rsecon25 #rse #warwick #conference

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...

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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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!

Finally, we're proud sponsors this year of the #ISC25 Women in HPC programme. Go team RCS! #ISC25

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.”

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.

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.

We’re proud to sponsor this year’s #DurhamHPCDays and to see our own Tom Meltzer kicking things off.

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We kick off #DurhamHPCDays today with a tutorial on FTorch by @rcscambridge.bsky.social

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

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

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

Numerical Relativity with AMReX - Miren Radia, University of Cambridge

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