This article describes the existing Research IT Virtual Machine service and outlines our planned developments. For more information, please email its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk Existing Research Virtual Machine (VM) Service (RVMS) IT Services already offer a research VM service. Through this service, VMs are offered to research groups: with a relatively low specification, such as one or two CPU cores, four GB RAM and 25 GB local storage; on which researchers may have admin/root privileges. A standard Scientific.. Read more »

The Research Infrastructure Team If you have any questions about the items below, please contact the RI team at its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk CSF Refresh The Computational Shared Facility (CSF) is the University flagship computational resource. It started life four years ago and is now running 1000s of jobs for over 650 users from 35 research groups representing all faculties. The CSF is getting a New Year refresh. This will secure the service for years to come. The.. Read more »

The Research Virtual Machine Service is now in its pilot phase, i.e, academic-run Virtual Machines are now in production on this service. If you are interested in being an early adopter of this service, please get in touch: its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk