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By ARCHER2 Service on June 3, 2026

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Digital Oceans: Mapping and Predicting Ireland’s Ocean

Free webinar, Wednesday 10th June 2026 15:00 - 16:00

This talk will explore how ocean modelling helps us understand and predict oceanographic features in the oceans around Ireland, from the daily rhythm of tides and complex current patterns to the impacts of storms and extreme events like marine heatwaves. The talk will show how these models are used to support practical services, including aquaculture, water quality monitoring, and early warning systems.

We’ll also look at how modelling contributes to biodiversity restoration efforts by identifying suitable habitats. Finally, we’ll touch on how climate projections are being integrated into these tools to help communities and stakeholders prepare for future conditions and make better informed decisions.

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Containers for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Podman and Singularity

Online, 22 and 24 June 2026 10:00 - 16:00

This course introduces the use of containers as a means of creating reproducible computational environments. Such environments are essential for ensuring reproducible research outputs and simplifying the deployment of complex software stacks across different systems.

The course focuses on Podman for local container workflows and introduces Singularity/Apptainer for use in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. While specific tools are used for illustration, the concepts and practices covered are broadly applicable across container technologies.

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Intermediate Modern Fortran

Online, 27, 29 and 31 July 2026 10:00 - 16:00

Fortran (a contraction of Formula Translation) was the first programming language to have a standard (in 1954), but has changed significantly over the years. More recent standards (the latest being Fortran 2018) come under the umbrella term “Modern Fortran”. Fortran retains very great significance in many areas of scientific and numerical computing, particularly for applications such as quantum chemistry, plasmas, engineering and fluid dynamics, and in numerical weather prediction and climate models.

This intermediate course concentrates on some of the more recent features which are central to Modern Fortran. Attendees should be familiar with the basics of Fortran programming.

There are two main topics in this intermediate course: the facilities in Fortran for abstraction and polymorphism provided by classes and interfaces, and the facilities for formal interoperability with ANSI C. The course will cover type extension (“classes” and “inheritance”), type-bound procedures (“methods”), generic procedures (“polymorphism”), and so on. The standard iso_c_binding module provides facilities for interoperability with C; this allow the communication of Fortran entities with direct analogues C, and also Fortran objects (particularly arrays) which have no direct analogue in C.

Further language features concerning arrays, pointers, and facilities for structured programming using submodules will also be covered along the way.

Knowledge of the object-oriented paradigm would be useful, but is not essential. Knowledge of C is required for the material on C/Fortran interoperation. The course will allow programmers interested in working on larger, structured, software projects to make use of (almost) a full complement of Modern Fortran features.

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ARCHER2 User Survey 2026

We are committed to continually improving the ARCHER2 Service and would like to request your input to help us understand what is important to you, where the Service is working well and where there is scope for improvement.

The ARCHER2 User Survey consists of just a few questions and should take only a few minutes of your time to complete. There are opportunities to add more detailed comments if you wish.

For each survey response received, we will donate £1 to Save The Children. Additionally, if you enter your ARCHER2 username in the final question, then you will be entered into the prize draw to win one of five £50 Amazon vouchers.

Complete the survey

Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete this survey. The responses will be used to try and improve the service for you and to help identify key areas for service development, and will be shared with UKRI for consideration in planning future services.

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The “Known Issues” page of the ARCHER2 Documentation https://docs.archer2.ac.uk/known-issues/ lists all current open known issues including a description of the issue, its symptoms and any work-arounds.

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