Hold the dates 12-13 July! Come and join the NERC Digital Gathering HACKATHON. Application form now open (button above) – free 2 nights accommodation for first 25 applicants.
Calling all modellers and data scientists! Do you have access to a High Performance Computing platform? How FAIR are your data? Post-pandemic we are aware more than ever that our anayses can be complex and our data usage for policy-driven research needs to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. On that theme, this year we will have two streams:
Curated data and high performance computing
JASMIN, NERC’s own HPC, supports large scale data analysis and collaboration as well as hosting the curated datasets of the CEDA archive. The JASMIN team will be on hand to help you connect and run your analyses through the HPC, so you can access it and learn what it has to offer!
Traceable research and FAIR data
Join us to explore using the FAIR data pipeline for your own research! Bring along one of your projects to link into the pipeline and learn more about data management and the FAIR principles.
We will provide APIs to help you hook into the pipeline in R, Julia, Python, C++ and Java.
The Hackathon is being held on 12th and 13th July 2023 at Churchill College, Cambridge. The event is sponsored by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). To encourage maximum participation by researchers in the field and stakeholders there is no registration fee, and lunch and refreshments will be provided. We are offering free 2 nights accommodation for first 25 applicants. So register your interest and join us for a fun, collaborative computing session!
Further event information:
Following on from the 2023 Digital Gathering, NERC’s Constructing a Digital Environment expert network will be hosting a 2-day collaborative hackathon in Cambridge on Wednesday and Thursday July 12th-13th. We want to bring together researchers interested in developing their code, either for helping make it run on NERC’s JASMIN High Performance Computing system, or to improve the reproducibility of the research, specifically focussing on the provenance of the research outputs in terms of the specific data and code used to generate them by integrating that code into the ‘FAIR Data Pipeline’ to trace research workflows and record associated metadata. We are also interested in bringing together researchers from different research groups interested in collaborating by bringing their code together to develop more sophisticated workflows to solve more complex problems.
If this describes you then we look forward to meeting! You are interested in developing your existing source code to work on JASMIN to improve access to computer power or to take advantage of its curated datasets; in integrating your code with the FAIR Data Pipeline to improve the FAIRness (findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability) of your data and the provenance of research outputs; or in working collaboratively with another participant on your/their code. Apply now to come and work with us in Cambridge in July. We have funding for accommodating up to 25 people to come and work on these problems individually or together following on from the NERC Digital Gathering (July 10-11), in Cambridge. More delegates are welcome but you will have to sort your own accommodation (details below). In certain cases we may be able to help with your accommodation costs – get in touch.
You should have your own modelling or data analysis code to work with (or be planning on working with someone with their own codebase), and have it checked in using some form of version control (ideally git). To use the FAIR Data Pipeline, the code should also ideally be in R, Python, Java, C++ or Julia, but if it is in C or Fortran we are developing also interfaces to work with those languages as well. If you need to apply for a JASMIN user account, you can do so at https://accounts.jasmin.ac.uk/application/new/.
Location:
The hackathon venue is Churchill College, Cambridge, located at Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, UK. Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 336000. See https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk for location details.
See the Churchill College How to find us – Churchill College (cam.ac.uk) page for instructions about parking and EV charging etc.
Transport advice:
The venue has adequate car parking on site if you are driving. Cambridge train station has regular links to London and the National Express bus station is nearby in the town in Parker’s Piece (CB1 1PN).
The location is marked on the University of Cambridge online map.
Alternative Accommodation:
If you want to attend but missed out on our accommodation offer in the College, note there is a variety of accommodation nearby to the hackathon venue, and only a short walk away. The Hyatt Centric Cambridge and the Turing Locke, Eddington hotels, and beyond them the Premier Inn Cambridge North (Girton) hotel for example. There are also many options open to stay in University rooms.
Download the conference poster. 