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Departmental Computing meeting.
by David Colling 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

Dear All, This coming Friday seems to be the clear winner of the Doodle poll so we will meet then. I have another meeting that I expect to finish about midday so shall we say 12.30? I will book a room tomorrow. I will put together an agenda over the next couple of days but please send in anything that you would like to include. Best, david

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Departmental Computing meeting
by David Colling 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

Dear Physics computing reps, (cc'ing Matthew and Ray as I think that both condensed matter and experimental solid state need new reps). It has been a while since we have met and consequently I think that there is a lot for us to discuss. I am on holidat at the moment but have set up a doodle poll at: http://doodle.com/poll/h3n5d5d9iif2nds5 to gather people's availability. As usual this meeting will be at a lunchtime. I am on holiday at the moment but will put together an agenda towards the end of the week, so please let me know if you have specific things that you would like me to include. Best, david

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Fwd: RE: Wolfram London Technology Event
by David Colling 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

FYI... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RE: Wolfram London Technology Event Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:56:00 +0000 From: Weir, Kenny <k.weir(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: Colling, David J <d.colling(a)imperial.ac.uk> Dear David, I suspect the best way to disseminate this would be via the Computing Committee? May I leave this with you? Regards, Kenny *From:*Paul Barnett [mailto:paulb@wolfram.com] *Sent:* 31 May 2016 15:01 *To:* Ravat, Yusuf; Colling, David J; Weir, Kenny *Subject:* Wolfram London Technology Event Good Afternoon, I hope you are well? On 6th June 2016 we will be hosting a technology conference in London, as part of our European tour. The event will allow attendees to discover the power of cutting-edge computation and knowledge-based programming while gaining behind-the-scenes insight into the ever-expanding Wolfram ecosystem. It will also address how organisations of all sizes across industry, government, and academia can formulate an Enterprise Computation strategy to drive productivity and empower innovation. I have managed to obtain some discounted places for people that are affiliated with Universities that have a license agreement. I would therefore like to offer people there, a special offer rate of 50% off our standard price, which will allow registration at £37.50 for the full day. To take advantage of this offer people will need to use the link below and input the code PD2113 into the promotional code box on page 2 of the form. This link will also provide further details and the schedule. https://www.wolfram.com/events/europe-technology-tour-2016/registration-lon… If there is a way that you could make this information available to people there I would be grateful If you have any queries please do not hesitate to get in touch. Paul Barnett Key Account Manager Wolfram Research Europe Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 1993 885 025 paulb(a)wolfram.com <mailto:sallys@wolfram.com> www.wolfram.com <http://www.wolfram.com> <https://internal.wolfram.com/design/projects/gabyd/2014/10_october/EWTC/ema…>

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Machine Learning Course
by David Colling 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Dear Physics Computing people, Our group has a machine learning course for our first year PGs each year. This course is run by Yandex (the Russian google) and is very hands on. Our students speak very highly of it and seem to learn a lot. This year Yandex have said that they would be happy for us to allow more people to attend and so we are going to allow a total of ~25 (including our 11 first years). While we run this for our first year PG students it would be suitable for any researcher actively interested in this area (it is a pretty intense course). We have created an Imperial College events page for this course (complete with a link to the registration page) and this can be found http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/naturalscienc… While Yandex are very generously giving this course, we need to cover the expenses of their team while in London. If these are divided by 25 (ie everybody paying an equal share) this comes out to be ~£220/person so this is what we are charging. Please send forward this to anybody who you think might be interested. Best, david

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Fwd: Research Software Engineering mailing list
by David Colling 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Hi , Below is an email from Jeremy Cohen from DoC. He is trying to buildd a community of research software engineers throughout college. I think that anything that raises the profile of the people doing this sort of work is a good thing. So please forward this to anybody in your groups who may be interested. best, david -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Research Software Engineering mailing list Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:48:01 +0000 From: Jeremy Cohen <jeremy.cohen(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: David Colling <d.colling(a)imperial.ac.uk> Hi David, Find below an e-mail advertising the Research Software Engineering (RSE) community that I'm setting up. Feel free to forward to anyone you think may be interested. Regards, Jeremy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, As part of a plan to build a Research Software Engineering (RSE) community within Imperial, a mailing list has been set up that will be used to advertise events and disseminate RSE-related information to software engineers, researchers, academics and any other interested parties within College. This builds on a recent RSE session held as part of the ICT HPC Service's Summer School event. The session had good attendance and feedback suggests there is enthusiasm for creating such a community within Imperial and having regular meetings. Initially, the plan is to have RSE community meetings approximately once a month lasting for 1-2 hours and consisting of one or two short technical talks followed by drinks and networking. The first meeting of the community, the RSE community kick-off meeting, will take place on Wednesday 2nd December from 16:30. Further details will be sent out nearer the time. You can sign up to the mailing list here: https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/rse For more information on the Imperial RSE community, see the RSE web pages at: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/ Please feel free to disseminate this information to anyone else within College that you think may be interested. Kind regards, Jeremy -- Dr Jeremy Cohen Research Fellow Department of Computing Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London, SW7 2AZ

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Fwd: FW: Your Mathematica for Sites license has been upgraded
by David Colling 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Please forward this to anybody who might be interested... Best, david -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: FW: Your Mathematica for Sites license has been upgraded Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:50:38 +0000 From: Weir, Kenny <k.weir(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: Colling, David J <d.colling(a)imperial.ac.uk> Dear David, Do we need to do anything about this or has this gone to everyone? Regards, Kenny -----Original Message----- From: Wolfram Customer Support [mailto:info@wolfram.co.uk] Sent: 16 October 2015 20:20 To: Weir, Kenny Subject: Your Mathematica for Sites license has been upgraded Dear Kenny Weir, A new version of Mathematica for Sites has been released and is available through your organization's site license. Your existing license has been upgraded, as follows: Product: Mathematica for Sites Platform: All Previous Version: 10.2.0.0 Old Activation Key: 4775-6946-V4HJKH New Version: 10.3.0.0 New Activation Key: 4775-6946-AA7AG4 You can continue using the previous version of this product, upgrade to the new version, or use both versions on your machine. To download the installer for this new version from the Wolfram User Portal, go to: https://user.wolfram.com/portal/mySiteUserProduct.html?licnumber=47756946&e… You will need to enter the new activation key above to activate Mathematica for Sites 10.3.0.0. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact us or your organization's site license administrator. Sincerely, Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. The Wolfram Centre Lower Road, Long Hanborough Oxfordshire OX29 8FD United Kingdom +44-(0)1993-883400 fax: +44-(0)1993-883800

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Fwd: [HPC-SIG] The UCL Research Software Development Group Is Recruiting
by David Colling 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

Please forward to anybody you think might be interested... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [HPC-SIG] The UCL Research Software Development Group Is Recruiting Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:56:28 +0000 From: Hetherington, James <j.hetherington(a)UCL.AC.UK> Reply-To: HPC Special Interest Group discussion list <HPC-SIG(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: HPC-SIG(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK UCL’s Research Software Development group is looking for a new colleague and software developer! We work across college developing high-quality software in collaborations with scientists from all research domains. This post is funded for 2 years in the first instance. The research software development group designs, extends, refactors and maintains research software across all subjects area. Whether it means using python to bring up a database of sumerian writings, parallelising Fortran codes for surface catalysis simulations, adding red blood cells to a C++ Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of blood-flow dynamics, refactoring DNA forensics code in R, or designing a modern compressed sensing library for C++11 and python, we do it all, bringing specialist programming expertise, modern development practices (CI, TDD, Agile…), and engineering rigour to research software development. We provide expert expert software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams, and work with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges. If the following describes you, then you should consider working with us: * You have created and maintained software to address advanced research problems in one or more fields * You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements * You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts * You are expert in one or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and are keen to expand your knowledge. For more details check out this advert <http://bit.ly/rsdhire15>. -- Dr James Hetherington Head of Research Software Development Research IT Services And Honorary Lecturer Department of Computer Science University College London Tel: 07946868834 Site: http://bit.ly/ucl-rsd Twitter: @uclrcsoftdev @jamespjh Skype: ucgajhe

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Fwd: HPC Summer School: Research Software Engineering session - 1-3pm, Thursday 1st October, Huxley 308
by David Colling 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Dear All, My apologies for the last minute nature of this notice. As you can see I only received it this afternoon. I think that this is an important topic and is being reali8sed as such by (at least parts of) RCUK. I know that EPSRC recently put out a call and I am trying to raise this within STFC. Please forward to anybody in your groups who you think might be interested. Best, david -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: HPC Summer School: Research Software Engineering session - 1-3pm, Thursday 1st October, Huxley 308 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:26:24 +0100 From: Jeremy Cohen <jeremy.cohen(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: Jeremy Cohen <jeremy.cohen(a)imperial.ac.uk> Dear all, You may be aware that the College's HPC Service are running an HPC Summer School event this week. As part of the event, on Thursday from 1-3pm in the Huxley Building, Lecture Theatre 308, there will be a session on Research Software Engineering. The session will consist of a set of short "lightning talks" followed by a panel discussion. The aim of the session is to raise awareness of Research Software Engineering within Imperial and to look at the benefits of Research Software Engineers and the challenges that they face from both the perspectives of computational scientists and research group leaders and from the perspective of RSEs themselves. I hope you'll be able to attend the session and attach the session agenda. If you've not already registered for the HPC Summer School, you can do so here: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/news-and-events/hpc-registr… Further information on the event is available here: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/news-and-events/ Best regards, Jeremy -- Jeremy Cohen Department of Computing

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Fwd: Major Incident - INC0069064 - Group spaces and Panopto unavailable
by David Colling 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

FYI... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Major Incident - INC0069064 - Group spaces and Panopto unavailable Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:57:27 -0700 From: ICT Incident Manager <incident.manager(a)imperial.ac.uk> Reply-To: service.desk(a)imperial.ac.uk To: ict-major-incident-dl(a)imperial.ac.uk Dear Customer, The notes below refer to Major Incident INC0069064. Resolved Incident: The earlier issue which led to users being unable to access some shared drives and Panopto has now been resolved, and access has been restored to normal. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and are investigating the underlying cause of this issue with IBM. You can follow progress and future updates via the Service Status page here: https://imperial.service-now.com/ict/status.do For any comments relating to either the incident or this email, please contact ICT Incident Manager. Thank you, ICT Imperial College London Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9000 (49000 internal) Web: imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/contact-ict-service-desk Twitter: @TheServiceDesk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to receive ICT Major Incident notifications. To unsubscribe, please email ICT Incident Manager. Ref:MSG3578198

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Fwd: Major Incident - INC0066819 - Group space access issues
by David Colling 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

FYI... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Major Incident - INC0066819 - Group space access issues Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 06:45:13 -0700 From: ICT Incident Manager <incident.manager(a)imperial.ac.uk> Reply-To: service.desk(a)imperial.ac.uk To: ict-major-incident-dl(a)imperial.ac.uk Dear Customer, The notes below refer to Major Incident INC0066819. Current incident: Users will be experiencing problems accessing group space (shared drives) at the moment due to a server issue. The support teams are working on this a priority and aim to have normal service restored as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this issue. You can follow progress and future updates via the Service Status page here: https://imperial.service-now.com/ict/status.do For any comments relating to either the incident or this email, please contact ICT Incident Manager. Thank you, ICT Imperial College London Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9000 (49000 internal) Web: imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/contact-ict-service-desk Twitter: @TheServiceDesk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to receive ICT Major Incident notifications. To unsubscribe, please email ICT Incident Manager. Ref:MSG3374951

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