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🖥️ Teams just took a virtual tour of our data centre — where all the HPC magic happens behind the scenes! From racks to real-time research, a great look at the tech powering #BEARChallenge2025. ^YZ

🍕 About 40 pizzas stacked high like a mountain at lunch today… and our #BEARChallenge2025 participants absolutely demolished them. Fuelled by carbs and code! 🐻💻 ^YZ

This afternoon’s keynote came from Dr Kit Windows-Yule, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering, who shared how he uses HPC in his research — and how AI is changing the game. A thought-provoking session at #BEARChallenge2025! 🧠 ^YZ

The second keynote this afternoon from Dr Chandan Bose, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, sharing how his team uses HPC to tackle complex multi-physics problems — from unsteady aerodynamics to bio-inspired fluid-structure interactions. #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

❓New for #BEARChallenge2025: our very first quiz round! No prizes up for grabs — just bragging rights and plenty of laughs. Great to see everyone getting stuck in and having fun! 🎉^YZ

🥉 3rd Place: Well done to Beariables! Strong showing and great teamwork throughout. Each member wins a special BEAR goodie bag 🐻✨ ^YZ #BEARChallenge2025

🥈 2nd Place: A huge congrats to AlgoRythm! Consistent, clever, and fast — brilliant work from start to finish. Each member receives a Lenovo goodie bag 🎁 #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

1st Place at #BEARChallenge2025 goes to Under the Hood! Incredible performance across all challenges! Each member gets a Lenovo tablet 🏆 Thanks to Professor Stephen Jarvis, Provost and Vice-Principal of Uni of Birmingham , and Simon Thompson from Lenovo for presenting awards! ^YZ

🎉 That’s a wrap on #BEARChallenge2025! Huge thanks to all our brilliant participants, speakers, and supporters — we’ve loved every minute of it. See you next year for more HPC, teamwork, and bear-themed chaos 🐻💻 ^YZ

Tomorrow (2nd) is our monthly in-person drop-in session held in Cafe Aroma, Staff House, 13.30-14.30. Got questions on data storage, processing, software support, version control, training + more... come and see us! 🐻^DC

Welcoming Louise to the ARC team! Excited for the fresh ideas and energy they'll bring. Let’s make great things happen! #NewHire #TeamStar #RSE Uni of Birmingham

Thanks to Uni of Birmingham for nominating me for, and being fortunate to win on behalf of Beggs Lab the Josiah Mason Founders Award for Academic Advancement Video of our work: m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbySWF…

🧬 BEAR supercomputing at Uni of Birmingham helped unlock insights into infant gut health and malnutrition—24 years of data crunched in 14 days! 🔗 blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/07/0… #Microbiome #HPC #Malnutrition

PhD researcher Guilin explores how temperate forest soils respond to climate change using high-resolution data and BlueBEAR HPC power. Read more about this fascinating soil hydrology research 👉blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/07/0… #HPC #SoliScience #UoB^YZ

🎓 Seminar: Open Source & Intellectual Property 📅 15 July, 11:00–12:00 📍 Arts & Law Building, Room 103 Discussing the evolving relationship between open source and IP — highly relevant for researchers & developers. 👉 Register: forms.office.com/pages/response… ^YZ

All setup and ready to welcome our new colleagues in the Great Hall. Come and talk to us about your compute and data storage needs. UoB Advanced Research Computing (BEAR) Uni of Birmingham

We had a brilliant time at Central Induction today! Great to meet so many new faces and share what we do. Thanks to everyone who came by！^YZ Uni of Birmingham #uob

A warm welcome to Christine Stawitz, who joins us as our new Senior Research Software Engineer and Manager!💻 We're so pleased to have Christine on board — bringing her energy, expertise, and leadership to our growing team. Exciting times ahead! ☕ ^YZ #RSE #newstarter

🛩️ Bio-inspired flaps & morphing wings meet HPC! PhD student Hibah Saddal uses Uni of Birmingham’s #BlueBEAR to simulate next-gen aerodynamic designs for UAVs. 🔗 blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/07/2… #Aerospace #HPC #FSI

🐻Got questions about using the supercomputer, storing research data, or working with research software? Come and see us TODAY at our drop-in session — we’ll be in Café Aroma, Staff House, 1:30–2:30pm. Bring your questions and have a chat with the team! ^YZ #HPC #DataManagement