Research Lifecycle Programme

Newsletter: Our £1 million HPC investment and upcoming events

by Fiona | Mar 29, 2019 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, HPC, Innovation community, Newsletter, Projects, Restricted data

Much has been happening within the programme over the last couple of weeks. We have events for three different projects, so there’s likely to be something of interest for most people, whether this is compute capacity, innovation or restricted data.

Newsletter: Research IT innovation community

by Mike | Feb 19, 2019 | Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Edge compute, Event, HPC, Innovation community, Newsletter

If you were unable to attend our ‘Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme’ event last week, there’s a recording available for you to download. Also, we introduce the Innovation Community lead for one of our projects. Lunch with the Research Lifecycle We held our...

Newsletter: Progress on projects and another invitation

by Mike | Feb 1, 2019 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Research networking and collaboration

At the time of writing, there are just 7 places left at our Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme event next Tuesday. There are also more developments on some of our other projects. Incrementally build compute capacity (Project M) and Improve access to compute...

Newsletter: New Year, New Appointments!

by Mike | Jan 18, 2019 | Event, Innovation community, Newsletter, Research IT strategy and architecture

We’re not only welcoming in the new year at the Research Lifecycle Programme - the change team is coming together and as such we will be welcoming new colleagues through some new appointments.The positions we’ve filled are as follows:Enterprise Architect – Project P...

Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme

by Mike | Jan 9, 2019 | Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Edge compute, Event, HPC

Join the programme team at their event in February for information about compute capabilities, high performance computing, cloud services and more The Research Lifecycle is a five-year programme of investments to support the University in meeting its goal of being one...

Newsletter: Compute equipment purchase, and lunch with the RLP

by Mike | Dec 12, 2018 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Restricted data

Welcome to our final newsletter of 2018, in which we talk about our next business case, let you know when some of our new technology is expected to arrive, announce our ‘Lunch with the Research Lifecycle Programme’ event and talk about restricted data Business case...

Newsletter: Announcing the project managers

by Mike | Oct 15, 2018 | Cloud solutions, Compute capacity and resources, Costing, Digital Collections, Event, HPC, Innovation community, Newsletter, Pure, Research IT strategy and architecture, Research networking and collaboration

The Research Lifecycle Programme has been ramping up activity since the Change and IT Process (CITP) governance board approval of the first tranche of spend for this financial year. As promised, we can now announce the project managers of each of the change...

Newsletter: CITP Approval and Implementation

by Mike | Sep 28, 2018 | Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Storage solutions

This past week has seen remarkable progression for the Research Lifecycle programme, with funding being approved and change projects moving into their first stages of implementation Change Projects On 18th September, the Change and IT Process Subcommittee (CITP)...

Newsletter: You’re invited to our next open house event

by Mike | Sep 14, 2018 | CITP, Compute capacity and resources, Event, Newsletter, Research IT strategy and architecture

The next in our series of open house events takes place on Tuesday 30 October, and our first business case for the 2018/19 financial year has been completed Business case news A further development for the RLP has been the completion of our first business case for the...

Newsletter: The research support professions focus groups

by Mike | Aug 31, 2018 | Event, Newsletter, Professional Services

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve hosted three groups of people in research support roles, to discuss how we can build and define research support professions across the University. We’ve also got a date for you to pencil in for the next open house event. News People...