Research Software Forum – 22/11/2017

The first Research Software Forum was held on the 22/11/2017 in the Physics Building at Lancaster University.  We had a great series of talks which are listed (and linked) below.

Opening talk

• Sustainable Software – Is your research software correct? – Robin Long, Physics

Computing Resources talk:

• High End Computing Cluster – Mike Pacey, ISS (Information Systems Services)

Lightning Talks:

• Test Driven Development – Andy Wharton, Physics
• OutreachDS – Chris Jewell, CHICAS
• How to differentiate a Computer Program – Daniel Grose, Maths and Stats
• All aboard!, A glimpse on Container Technologies and the liberation from hardware’s prison – Juan M. Escamillia Molgora, LEC
• R Markdown in 3 minutes – Rebecca Killick, Maths and Stats
• SpatialEpiApp: a Shiny web application for the analysis of spatial and spatio- temporal disease data – Paula Moraga, CHICAS
• Switching between CPU and GPU on-the-fly using CuPy – Stephan Tulkens, Psychology
• How to get help with Scientific Software – Barry Rowlingson, CHICAS