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FOSDEM 2025: A Weekend of Talks, Conversations, and Controlled Chaos
By Christian Gutschow, on 17 February 2025
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 […]
FOSDEM 2025
By Sam Cunliffe, on 13 February 2025
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 […]
UCL attends SuperComputing 24
By dorothy.chung, on 29 January 2025
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. […]
Workshop on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies
By m.xochicale, on 20 December 2024
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 […]
SAFEHR
By Sarah Keating, on 16 December 2024
What’s in a name? Electronic Healthcare Records are a vital source of data for a wide range of research, ranging from the implementation of new medical devices to the investigation of cures for disease. However, this data cannot just be made available to anyone, a written request must be vetted and approved, appropriate data must […]
Team (u)CLI finish 3rd!
By Samantha Ahern, on 9 December 2024
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 & […]
The ARC TRE
By George Svarovsky, on 28 November 2024
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 […]
UCL ARC at the 2024 International RSE Conference
By Jonathan Cooper, on 18 November 2024
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 […]
Alignment of the Agile Manifesto to a Research Context
By Monika Byrne Svata, on 14 November 2024
This article proposes aligning the language of the original Agile Manifesto – written over 20 years ago, for software development in a commercial setting – with our current context of digital research projects involving research software engineering, data science, data stewardship, and research infrastructure development. This work was inspired by discussion about the wording of […]
Team (u)CLI are Go!
By Samantha Ahern, on 22 October 2024
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, […]
