BEAR User Forum

Dates
Wednesday 6 March 2019 (13:00-14:00)

You are cordially invited to the BEAR User Forum, where the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team will be present and ready to answer your questions.

Date : 6 March 2019
Time : 1pm
Where : Engineering Building, room G29

The BEAR User forum aims to bring BEAR users together to maximise the experience through:

  • Make connections and network with peers
  • Share user experience
  • Get news and updates from ARC
  • Identify issues and raise any concerns
  • Propose further development of software and/or hardware
  • Discuss Support for University initiatives in relevant areas

No need to book, just turn up, however if you have any questions or queries please can you send them to bearinfo@contacts.bham.ac.uk which will be answered in the Q&A session.

Agenda

1:00pm     Welcome to the BEAR User Forum by Dr Liza Jabbour, Chair of the BEAR User Group
1:10pm     Foreword of BEAR and ARC Team by Dr John Owen, Head of Advanced Research Computing team 
1:20pm     Infrastructure update by Simon Thompson, BEAR Infrastructure Architect
1:30pm     Q&A
1:45pm     Training and Research software engineering by Aslam Ghumra and  ‘Ed’ Andrew Edmondson
1:50pm     Close

The ARC (BEAR) team will be available afterwards to continue the discussions.
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