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Talk: Structure and delivery format for Online HPC courses

UNIVERSE-HPC has organised a free talk titled Structure and delivery format for Online HPC courses, which will take place online and at the Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh, on Monday, 9 October 2023.

Code For Thought: Software Heritage

In this latest Code For Thought episode, SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt meets with Morane Gruenpeter and Benoît Chauvet from Software Heritage. Software Heritage aims to help preserve and archive software, not only for research but also for the private sector. 

Workshop: Environmental Impacts of Computing in Health & Life Sciences Research

SSI Fellows Loïc Lannelongue and Lincoln Colling are among the organisers of the first Environmental Impacts of Computing in Health & Life Sciences Research Workshop, a free hybrid event which will take place on Tuesday 7 November online and in London at the Wellcome Trust.

Cloud-SPAN course: Metagenomics

Cloud-SPAN will host a free course on metagenomics from Monday 6, until Friday 24 November 2023. The course is aimed at environmental scientists who would like to use high performance computing for metagenomics analysis or anyone interested in metagenomics. No previous experience of the command line or HPC is required.

Code For Thought: Hello Fortran!

Despite the fact that Fortran has been around since the 1950s, it remains a very relevant programming language today and has an active community of keen engineers. In this latest episode of Code For Thought SSI Fellow Peter Schmidt discusses the origins of Fortran, how to deal with legacy (Fortran 77), how the language evolved and the modern day use cases of Fortran. In the course of the episode, you'll hear from Thomas Clune (NASA, US), Wim Vanderbauwhede (Uni. Glasgow, UK), Milan Curcic (Uni. of Miami, US) and Ondrej Certik (GSI Technologies, US). 

Multilingual Data Science: Part 2

Language is a cognitive instrument; it is our vehicle for learning and building our world, and thus it can become a source of exclusion. “Approximately 64% of Internet content is in English, although only 4.8% of the world's population speaks English as a first language. If we consider Internet users, almost 3 in 4 cannot understand more than 60% of all web content.”

Multilingual Data Science: Part 1

Language is a cognitive instrument; it is our vehicle for learning and building our world, and thus it can become a source of exclusion. “Approximately 64% of Internet content is in English, although only 4.8% of the world's population speaks English as a first language. If we consider Internet users, almost 3 in 4 cannot understand more than 60% of all web content.”

Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program 2023 Applications

The deadline to submit your application to join the 2023 cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program is Monday 4 September.

SSI Midterm Review: Presenting the SSI’s achievements and impact from the last 13 years

A new publication that draws together some of the achievements of the Software Sustainability Institute since its foundation in 2010 is available on Zenodo. The document comprises 12 case studies that demonstrate the key role that the SSI has played in improving research culture, revolutionising access to software training and working with our collaborators to develop policies that better recognise and support the vital role of software in research.

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