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Academic computing drop-in sessions are now run by members of our team on Wednesday afternoons! Head to our drop-in info page for details & schedule....

The cPanel servers webs.act.reading.ac.uk and webhosts.reading.ac.uk used to host php based websites  have been updated. The sites on php 7.3 have been updated to use php 7.4 and php 8.1 has been added. Site owners are recommended to update their site to use php 8.1 asap On both servers the version of ruby available has been updated to 2.7  ...

We have changed the default partition to be the 'limited'. Users submitting jobs longer than 24h need to explicitly request another partition, e.g. 'cluster'. Jobs submitted with time limit exceeding the partition limit will be rejected.   Purchasing RACC nodes owned by projects can  be requested using the Self Service Portal form,  see /https://research.reading.ac.uk/act/knowledgebase/racc-paid-for-resources/....

The Academic and Research Computing Team (ARC) in DTS has launched the university-wide Research Software Engineering Group RSE@UoR today. Led by Maria Broadbridge and Paul Heaton, RSE@UoR aims to form a sustainable community to help researchers to produce high quality research software by providing support, expertise and training in many aspects of software development. For more information on RSE@UoR services, contact details and how to get involved, please see the new RSE@UoR website!   What is Research Software Engineering and what does RSE@UoR do? Research Software Engineering (RSE) and programming skills are becoming more and more integral to research across a multitude of disciplines. Too often researchers, in particular early career researchers, have not had any formal education in these skills when joining the University and to do not have access to training and support. Research Software Engineers are people who combine technical expertise with software and an intricate understanding of research and are uniquely positioned to make informed recommendations in research software development. RSE@UoR...

New arc-ssh service replaces act-ssh. arc-ssh is easier to use - you will be informed if you need to apply for access, you can authenticate using one time passwords received by email, and you do not need to use a custom port number to authenticate with ssh keys....

We have provided more detailed instructions for connecting from home via act-ssh. In current desperate situation, these procedures can be an alternative to using the VPN. See act-ssh with MobaXterm – step by step guide and act-ssh for Linux and Mac users – step by step guide....

rclone has been updated on NX and on RACC. You might need to re-run 'rclone config' to update your configuration....

Users can now recover files for themselves on research storage using previous versions for Windows shares or by copying files from snapshots on Linux. For more information see how to recover a file on research storage...

When you close the NoMachine application you now get a dialog asking if you want to just disconnect from your session, terminate your session or cancel. Let us know if this is useful or just annoying....

The active Met paid-for project can now use dedicated resources on RACC. To find more see RACC for Meteorology users and migrating from met-cluster to RACC....