Hi everyone
As you know, we are closed to users from today, and we will reopen on
Friday 3rd January. The remote desktop will be under maintenance until
Wednesday, and so there will be intermittent access to the system during
this period; we will send out an announcement once it is fully available
again.
*YNiC User Inductions*
If you are aware of any new students/staff that will require access to YNiC
and/or an IT account, they must attend a YNiC user induction. Our next
induction will be *Wednesday 8th January at 10am*. Please ask them to
contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up.
*Level 0 operator training:*
Our next scheduled Level 0 training session will take place on *Tuesday 7th
January at 1pm*. Please note that users requesting Level 0 training should
be a PhD, RA/Postdoc, or staff, and should already have a project proposal
submitted to YNiC. Please email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk if you have any
questions or wish to book on to this session, and include which scanner you
wish to be trained on. *Please note that sessions are limited to 4
trainees, which will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
Training must be booked at least a week before the session date, in order
to reserve the scanner booking.*
*First Aid Training Requirement for Operators*
All Level 0 operators must attend an 'Emergency First Aid at Work' one-day
training course. We will enforce this requirement from March 2020, to give
current Level 0 users time to arrange the training course. Courses should
be organised by the project PI with a relevant training provider (e.g. St
Johns Ambulance, Red Cross); these providers can also run group training
sessions (8 or more people) on-site, so labs may wish to coordinate their
operators to all attend training on the same day, at a location of your
choice.
Hope you all have a lovely Christmas break. See you in the New Year!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
We have a few reminders for you this week:
*YNiC Christmas Closure*
YNiC will be closed to users for service maintenance *from the week
commencing 16th December*, and will re-open in the New Year, on the 3rd of
January. During this period you should consider all YNiC services
unavailable. However, please note that we do not anticipate the remote
desktop to be unavailable for the entire period, and we will keep users
updated once these services resume.
*YNiC User Inductions*
If you are aware of any new students/staff that will require access to YNiC
and/or an IT account, they must attend a YNiC user induction. Our final
induction date before the Christmas break will be Wednesday 11th December
at 2pm. Please ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up.
*First Aid Training Requirement for Operators*
It is recommended that all Level 0 operators attend an 'Emergency First Aid
at Work' one-day training course. This is currently a requirement for Level
1 operators, and will also be required for Level 0 operators soon - we will
enforce this requirement from March 2020, to give current Level 0 users
time to arrange the training course. Courses should be organised by the
project PI with a relevant training provider (e.g. St Johns Ambulance, Red
Cross); these providers can also run group training sessions (8 or more
people) on-site, so labs may wish to coordinate their operators to all
attend training on the same day, at a location of your choice.
Hope you have a great week!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Good morning
This lunchtime we have our monthly Science Social, with guest speaker
Alexis Makin from the University of Liverpool.
Those of you recovering from the Psychology Department Christmas party will
be pleased to know that pizza will be provided from 12pm! The talk will
start at 12:30pm.
We look forward to seeing you later,
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hello All,
A little clarification on the closure details. We are closing the WC 1th
December to perform some upgrades. We do not anticipate them taking the
whole week and will update users when remote services will be available
again. Apologies for any confusion.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi everyone
Just a couple of notices for you today.
*Monthly Science Social*
We have a guest speaker for the Monthly Science Social this week: Dr Alexis
Makin from the University of Liverpool. This will take place on *Friday 6th
from 12pm*. We will get pizza for lunch, and then the talk will start at
12:30. The last Science Social was very popular, and we hope to see many
of you here again for this months event!
*YNiC Christmas Closure*
YNiC will be closed to users for service maintenance *from the week
commencing 16th December*, and will re-open in the New Year, on the 3rd of
January. During this period you should consider all YNiC services
unavailable, including scanning and the remote desktop.
Hope you have a good week,
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi YNiCers,
Benedetta Franceschiello, a visitor from the Laboratory for
Investigative Neurophysiology - Lausanne, has kindly offered to give us
a presentation on some of her interesting work which includes resolving
motion signals in MRI (particularly of the eye) and computational
modeling of visual illusions.
Please join us for a casual, interactive session at 4pm on Thursday the
28th in YNiC, followed by refreshments and maybe even a visit to the pub.
Bene's profile is here:
https://www.unil.ch/line/en/home/menuinst/people/post-doctoral-fellows/bene…
Best wishes,
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
Manager of Imaging Services
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Good afternoon everyone,
*IMPORTANT: Cluster Output Paths*
As we indicated last week, from today it will not be possible to write to
/groups from the cluster, only /scratch/groups. This step has been taken to
prevent the /groups partition filling up with data which does not belong in
there. If /groups fills up, all users are affected.
To illustrate the point, during last week (when writing to /groups remained
possible) one cluster job generated ~300Gb of data in /groups which
belonged in /scratch/groups. The partition was therefore completely filled
up. The consequence was that another user was unable to run their stimulus
code, which depends on there being space in /groups to log output, and
their scanning was delayed significantly.
More generally, it is important to recognise that storage resources are
limited, and that when the full capacity of partitions is reached many more
people than those who wrote the data may be affected. It would be
appreciated if users who anticipate writing large amounts of data, could
first estimate how much data will be written and then ask us how best to
accommodate the data. In general, we would also like to remind users of
the importance of storing the correct data in the correct areas; this will
avoid us having to take urgent remedial actions in cases where other users
have been affected.
*YNiC User Inductions*
If you are aware of any new students/staff that will require access to YNiC
and/or an IT account, they must attend a YNiC user induction. Our final
induction date before the Christmas break will be Wednesday 11th December
at 2pm. Please ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up.
Hope you have a great week!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hello All,
On Friday 29th November we are unable to sign off conditional
contraindications for MRI scanning. If you have participants booked or
intend to scan, please check about contraindications in advance of the
scanning session so they can be signed off ahead of Friday.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Good morning,
This afternoon we have a project presentation from Dr Daniel Kaiser and
Matt Foxwell, at *4pm* in YNiC open plan, titled: "Probing effects of scene
structure on object perception using TMS".
Talks are followed by refreshments.
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
Here's what's going on this week at YNiC:
*Project Presentation - Thursday 4pm:*
This week we have a project presentation from Dr Daniel Kaiser and Matt
Foxwell on Thursday 21st November at 4pm in YNiC open plan, titled:
"Probing effects of scene structure on object perception using TMS". Talks
are followed by refreshments. We hope to see you there!
*Strike Action:*
As you may be aware, UCU have announced an 8 day period of strike action
commencing 25th November. As yet we are not aware of any impacts on
activities at YNiC. Should any impact arise, we will make all efforts to
keep you informed.
*Cluster Output Paths:*
>From Monday 25th November you will only be able to write data to
/scratch/groups, and not straight to /groups. This is already the
recommended best practice at YNiC, but we will be enforcing it from next
week to reduce storage pressure on the /groups drive. Please make sure you
edit any of your scripts that currently save straight to /groups.
*YNiC User Inductions:*
If you are aware of any new students/staff that will require access to YNiC
and/or an IT account, they must attend a YNiC user induction. Our next
induction date will be Wednesday 27th November at 2pm. Please ask them to
contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up.
Hope you have a good week!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY