The HPC has extensive technical knowledge and experience, through years of engagement with the research community, follow international standards and keep up with trends in eResearch.

• Assisting newcomers
  • Training
  • Training videos
  • Technical documentation
  • Referrals
• Automation and workflows
  • Automation of research processes, e.g. writing scripts to perform functions
  • Attaining a better understanding of research processes, through engagement with researchers, and how it can possibly be automated
    
• Software optimisation
  • Understanding hardware features and performing software compilation accordingly
    
• System design and maintenance
  • Hardware compatibility
  • Securing infrastructure
  • Regular backups of data
    
• System operations, e.g. job scheduling to ensure fair sharing of resources among researchers
  
• Training
  • Linux
  • HPC usage (usage of software within the different research groups)
    
  • HPC lectures (technical training on building clusters to computer science students)
  • Data Carpentry (collaboration with the Data Carpentry Foundation)