From freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk Wed Jul 18 13:36:38 2018 From: freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk (Freddie Akeroyd - UKRI STFC) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 12:36:38 +0000 Subject: [NOBUGS] Vacancy: Scientific Computing Section Group Leader, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (IRC245556) Message-ID: Scientific Computing Section Group Leader, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (IRC245556) About Us STFC is a partner organisation within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a new entity that brings together nine partners to create an independent organisation with a strong voice for research and innovation, and a vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. STFC's ISIS facility uses a particle accelerator to produce neutrons and muons which are used to carry out research in the physical and life sciences, supporting a national and international community of more than 3000 scientists. The expertise of our computing staff is key to making our research happen. We work with the very latest technologies to drive advances in both hardware and software that have genuine real world applications. About the role The Scientific Software Group develops, provides and supports scientific software to support the ISIS scientific programme, including reduction, analysis, modelling and data management. The group is responsible for the ISIS contribution to international collaboration to develop the Mantid reduction framework. The recently created Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) is an integrated, cross-disciplinary computing/data science centre to facilitate better exploitation of research carried out at our large scale National Facilities. As Group Leader you will lead the Scientific Software Group, managing the team, whilst providing a vision and strategy for the scientific software required by ISIS. You will also lead the ISIS scientific computing contribution to the European Spallation Source project. Additional responsibilities will include: * Managing the relationship between ISIS and STFC's Scientific Computing Department * Regularly consulting with the scientific groups * Participation in international software collaborations * Providing expertise and direction in software development in a multiplatform environment * Contributing to software development as appropriate * Managing the interaction with computing facilities used by ISIS * Ensuring staff are trained in appropriate technologies and packages. Occasional UK and overseas travel will be required. About you You will have a degree in a scientific or computing discipline, or demonstrate significant equivalent experience. You will have extensive practical experience of scientific software development, along with excellent technical knowledge and experience of: * Data analysis in a scientific area related to ISIS * Software life cycle and development methodologies * Objected-oriented development * Software project management * An area of science relevant to ISIS such as neutron scattering or computational methods for materials science. * Experience of cross-platform software development is desirable. You will be an experienced team manager with the ability to provide strong leadership and create an effective vision and strategy for a team. You will display excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation and relationship building skills. What we offer In addition to the competitive salary, an excellent index linked pension scheme and generous leave allowance are offered. Full details of offered benefits can be found on STFC's careers pages How to Apply http://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc245556_8422.aspx Applicants are required to include a cover letter outlining their suitability for this role. Applications are handled by UK Shared Business Services, to apply please visit our job board at http://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc245556_8422.aspx. Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000. The closing date for applications is 5th August 2018. From nick.draper at stfc.ac.uk Wed Jul 25 11:27:06 2018 From: nick.draper at stfc.ac.uk (Nick Draper - UKRI STFC) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:27:06 +0000 Subject: [NOBUGS] New Release of Mantid 3.13, July 2018 Message-ID: <34a9674c5fe24d848eceb3b3ffe5857a@stfc.ac.uk> [../../_images/Release3-13.png] [cid:image001.png at 01CE4D95.2BBE4A00] Hello, We are proud to announce version 3.13.0 of Mantid. This release includes a first implementation of Project Recovery for Mantidplot, Mantid maintains a recovery script while running, in the event of a crash or unexpected shutdown of Mantidplot Mantid will attempt to recover to its most recent recovery checkpoint. This feature may not fully recover in all situations, but we will continue to improve it in future releases. There have also been some significant performance enhancements in the instrument view, improvements in error reporting, and the peaks view within the slice viewer now handles non-orthogonal axes. These are just some of the many improvements in this release, so please take a look at the release notes, which are filled with details of the important changes and improvements in many areas. The development team has put a great effort into making all of these improvements within Mantid, and we would like to thank all of our beta testers for their time and effort helping us to make this another reliable version of Mantid. Throughout the Mantid project we put a lot of effort into ensuring Mantid is a robust and reliable product. Thank you to everyone that has reported any issues to us. Please keep on reporting any problems you have, or crashes that occur to the Mantid Forum. Installation packages can be found on our download page which now links to sourceforge to mirror our download files around the world, you can also access the source code on GitHub. Details of what is available is the release are in the release notes http://docs.mantidproject.org/v3.13.0/release/v3.13.0/index.html Regards, Nick Draper Mantid Project Manager Tel: +44 (0)1235 567212 RAL, R3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.png Type: image/png Size: 22785 bytes Desc: image003.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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