June newsletter

 
Issue No. 30
June 2016
  • NeSI Software Carpentry workshop at Massey University
  • Winter Bootcamp is coming!
  • Introducing NeSI's Engagement team
  • Advanced Research Computing Boosts Quality of Canadian Research
  • 4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4)
  • Join NeSI's team: Grow the computing and analytics capability of NZ researchers
  • In other news...
  • Recent research outputs

NeSI Software Carpentry workshop at Massey University

NeSI and Massey University joined together in June 2016 to present a Software Carpentry workshop at Massey's Palmerston North campus. According to the trainers, "this was a very successful workshop with almost 40 attendants, organised and presented by a mixed team of new and more experienced instructors. The participants were very responsive and there was a lot of learning happening for the attendees and for instructors. The feedback was mostly positive and the negative feedback was very constructive." Read more...

Winter Bootcamp is coming!

Winter Bootcamp is a week long training and education event co-ordinated by the Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland from July 11 to 15, where you can upskill in a whole host of topics related to digital research practice. Workshops and seminars range from two-day intensive and hands-on Software Carpentry programmes for general audiences, through to short informational or networking sessions. Included are also a number of specialised offerings in topics such as high performance computing and bioinformatics. Browse the menu here to see what's on and register for sessions. Places are limited so don't delay! Read more...

Introducing NeSI's Engagement team

NeSI is very happy to introduce our two-women powerhouse Engagement team - Engagement Manager Georgina Rae and Research Communities Manager Aleksandra Pawlik.
 
Georgina Rae joined NeSI as our Engagement Manager in November last year and Aleksandra Pawlik joined the NeSI team as Research Communities Manager this month.

Read more about Georgina's and Aleksandra's backgrounds here.

Advanced Research Computing Boosts Quality of Canadian Research

Our colleagues at Compute Canada have recently analysed how using advanced computing resources impacts research outputs:

Informed by the collection of CVs from more than 2,300 Canadian faculty members who are active Compute Canada (CC) users, Compute Canada has embarked on an analysis of CC-enabled publications by those faculty members. CC-enabled publications are seen to be well above both the world and Canadian average scientific impact across a broad range of disciplines. Read more...

4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4)

Call for Submissions:

The 4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4) will be held at the School of Computer Science, Kilburn and IT Buildings, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK over 2 ½ days from September 12th at noon to September 14th at 5:00 pm, 2016.

The workshop immediately precedes and is co-located in Manchester with the First Conference of Research Software Engineers (RSE 2016), being held September 15-16 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Read more...

 

Join NeSI's team: Grow the computing and analytics capability of NZ researchers

NeSI is offering a unique opportunity to join a collaborative national team and work along side NeSI’s High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. We are currently recruiting for an outstanding Systems Integrator for HPC and Data Solutions, to be based at the University of Auckland.

Join us as we continue to innovate and support the research community in New Zealand. In return we offer the chance to work for a group committed to HPC best practice and excellence. Read more about the role.
 

In other news...

Recent research outputs

Below is a sample of recent research outputs that NeSI has been made aware of: We are always interested in hearing about research outputs generated with the help of NeSI. To notify NeSI of upcoming publications, please email pubs@nesi.org.nz. If you would like to be kept up to date with research outputs as NeSI includes them, please join our Mendeley Group.

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