UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) has recently established the Research Data Stewardship Community, which aims to bring together those working at UCL under the research data stewardship umbrella in a supportive and uplifting professional environment. In advance of this, both in-person and online launch events have been conducted to introduce the concept and shape the […]

The Advanced Research Computing Trusted Research Environment (ARC TRE) is available for UCL researchers. It can be found at https://tre.arc.ucl.ac.uk/. What is the ARC TRE? The ARC TRE provides compute environments, with desktops for each researcher, for projects working on sensitive data. You can think of each project space as a secured virtual room with […]

What? High level designs give an overall idea to how a project and its components are structured, typically with the aid of a diagram. If you’ve worked with AWS or the CDI, you’ve probably seen some architecture diagrams outlining the flow of the app with various services – this is the sort of idea we’re […]

We are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot service in Research Software Development Infrastructure. This will make available to those UCL researchers who create their own research software the tools they need to do so in a sustainable, professional manner. Part of this service access to GitHub’s source code management service. This is provided […]

Research is increasingly digital. Experimentation and theory have been joined by the third and fourth paradigms of science – numerical simulation and information-intensive research. These new approaches are both built on a common foundation – computer software. Yet despite this increasing reliance on software in research, software created in research institutions often exhibits a number […]