RSE Sheffield is hosting its first coffee and cakes event on 4th October 2016 at 10:00 in the Ada Lovelace room on 1st floor of the Computer Science Department (Regents Court East). Attendance is free and you don’t need to register (or bring coffee and cake with you). Simply call in and take the opportunity to come and have an informal chat about research software.

To Long; Didn’t Read – Summary

All members of the University are entitled to download and use the NAG Fortran Compiler under the terms of our site license.

Many people who use Maple on Sheffield’s High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster do so interactively. They connect to the system, start a graphical X-Windows session and use Maple in exactly the same way as they would use it on their laptop. Such usage does have some benefits: giving access to more CPU cores and memory than you’d get on even the most highly specified of laptops, for example.

How I solved a mystery with strace and bash

A new position is available as a Research Associate/Research Software Engineer in the area of complex systems modelling using emerging high performance parallel architectures.

I attended the Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop last month. This annual workshop is one of the primary events in the Research Software Engineering calendar and I highly recommend going to one if you are involved in the development of research software in any way.

The big news from Microsoft is that, from this summer, Windows 10 will support user-mode programs from the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.