Research Computing at Imperial College London

This is a work-in-progress list of links to anything related to research computing at Imperial College London.

If you’d like to propose something for inclusion then please contact Mark Woodbridge (m.woodbridge@imperial.ac.uk) or create an issue.

Contents:

• Groups/teams
• Infrastructure
• Support
• Training
  • Courses
  • Material
  • Placements
• Media
• Events
• Reference material
• Other tools/resources
• Related entities

Groups/teams

• Research Computing Service
  • Research Software Engineering team
• Graduate School
  • Research Computing Skills team
• Research Software Community
• RESIDE
• Research software teams within departments

Infrastructure

• Research Computing Service
  • Compute Service
  • Interactive services (Jupyter, RStudio)
  • Research Data Store
• ICT
  • GitHub
    • github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon
    • github.ic.ac.uk
  • Spiral/Symplectic
  • Software Hub (MATLAB etc)
  • Hosting and Storage
  • Azure
• Departmental compute systems

Support

• Research Computing Service
  • Clinics
  • Helpdesk
• Research Software Community
  • Mailing list
  • Slack
• ICT
  • Digital Partners
• Departmental computing support teams

Training

Courses

• Graduate School
  • Research Computing & Data Science
• Research Computing Service
• Software Carpentry
• Statistical Advisory Service
• Continuing professional development
• Research Software Community
• Union societies
  • ICSM Coding
• Programmes/courses delivered by departments
  • MSc in Applied Computational Science & Engineering

Material

• Graduate School (including Research Computing Service)
  • Research Computing & Data Science
• Material developed within departments (e.g.)
  • Éamonn Murray
  • Ed Smith
  • Gerard Gorman
  • Imperial Chemistry
  • Navjot Kukreja
  • Nicolas Barral
• LinkedIn Learning (via College subscription)

Placements

• UROP

Media

• Twitter
  • @ImperialRSE
  • @imperialRCS
• Blogs
  • Research Software Engineering team
  • Research Computing Tips
  • RESIDE
• Newsletters
  • Research Software Community
  • Open Research

Events

• RCS Summer School (2019)
• IC Hack
• Research Software Community
• iPr0gram

Reference material

• Research Computing Service
  • Continuous Integration for Research Software
  • Sources of funding for research software
• Research Data Management
  • Making research software open and shareable
• Enterprise
  • Open source software licences

Other tools/resources

• Research Computing Service
  • Research Software Directory

Related entities

• Open Access team
  • Twitter
  • Yammer
• Enterprise
  • Twitter
  • Advanced Hackspace
  • Imperial.tech
• Codelab
• DoCSoc
• Research Software London (co-ordinated from IC)
• Departments/institutes/groups
  • Department of Computing
  • Data Science Institute
  • Big data and analytical unit (BDAU)
  • ITMAT Data Science Group
  • Centre for Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (CMSE)