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 […]

I have experienced conferences before; I have experienced developer workshops; I have also experienced small meetups; what I never had experienced was FOSDEM, or the way I see it, Comic-Con for open-source people. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) is an annual event organized by and for people involved with open-source software in […]

My first FOSDEM has come and gone, and what a whirlwind it was! Over 8,000 attendees, more than 1,000 talks, and 70 parallel tracks—all squeezed into two intense days, where no matter where you stood, you were never more than five minutes away from a place serving strong Belgian beer. It’s an overwhelming, exhilarating, and […]

It’s… Huge. On the 1st and 2nd of February, 11 of our team went to the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting. This is an epic two-day conference with over 1000 talks (and something like 8,000 attendees) hosted in Brussels. It’s really huge. It’s so huge, in fact, that there are a good […]

In November, UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) provided funding for select UCL staff to attend SC24, the 2024 running of the annual SuperComputing (SC) conference, hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. UCL was one of 494 exhibitors, with a stand showcasing several novel High-Performance Computing (HPC) research initiatives taking place at UCL through posters and talks. […]

To champion the creation of sustainable, robust, and equitable digital healthcare systems that prevent the perpetuation of healthcare inequalities, ARC researchers took the lead in organising the second workshop on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on June 28th, 2024. The workshop focused on a key question: how can […]

Team (u)CLI finish 3rd in the national Computing Insights UK student Cluster Challenge! Team members from left to right: Zak Morgan, Dept of Computer Science Rozenn Raffaut, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Tom Bickley, Dept of Chemistry Yuliang Huang, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Qi Li,  Dept of Med Phys & […]

This year’s RSE conference took place from 3rd – 5th September in Newcastle. Around 20 ARC staff attended in person, with several others joining in the hybrid experience remotely. The latter has been steadily improving year on year, at least for contributing to the formal parts of the conference programme. The informal conversations are still […]

ARC are excited to announce this year’s team for the CIUK Cluster Challenge – (u)CLI! Zak Morgan, Dept of Computer Science Rozenn Raffaut, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Qi Li,  Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Yuliang Huang, Dept of Med Phys & Biomedical Eng Tom Bickley, Dept of Chemistry Shahid Khalid, […]

EPSRC has announced a pilot call for Research Software Engineer Fellowships . This is an exciting step towards the development of a long-term career path for research programmers, something we’ve been struggling towards for a long time. UCL will be very keen to support the best candidates in applications to this fellowship. We’re committed to a dual academic-and-support model […]