Blog – snap-decisions

Annual SNAP Workshop

The general purpose of the workshop is to bring the community together to get to know each other, spark interdisciplinary dialogue, and share expertise in the large variety…

SNAP Discord Channel

One of the reasons SNAP exists is to provide a space for early career researchers, post-grads, and staff to share their tools and their tech questions with each other. After…

Richard Littauer

Reproducible Research

On 20th February, Daniel Wrench from the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences led a lively workshop on best practises for reproducible research, assisted by Richard…

Data and Code Storage

As researchers we generate a range of data, this can be “output” files, excel spreadsheets, cvs files, large databases, code, PhD thesis, images and more. There is a greater…

SNAP Christmas Drinks

On 4th December, SNAP committee members had their end-of-year Christmas drinks at the Kelburn Pub.

SNAP end of year morning tea

On 3rd December, SNAP members held a festive morning of coding fun to round out the year.

REAANZ Consultation

Tricia and Brendan provided information to Angela Davis of Collective Strategy who is working for REANNZ to help them understand researcher technology needs and barriers…

August Git and Pre-commit Workshop

On 21st August, James Quilty from the School of Engineering and Computer Science led a workshop on the best practices when using Git and an introduction to pre-commit tools.

July Distributed Computing Workshop

On 24th July I led a workshop on distributed computing with a focus on what is MPI (the Message Passing Interface) and what is involved in assessing the scaling performance…

Troubleshooting your code

Yvette from the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences led a workshop on debugging python code.

Intro to Scikit Workshop

Postgraduates and staff attended the workshop on 22nd April 2024 from 2 pm to 4 pm. The workshop focussed on an interactive learning environment, encouraging participants to…

Rohit and Tricia

SNAP Planning Workshop

We held a planning workshop on the afternoon of 16 February 2024 with the aim of generating some ideas for activities SNAP could organise and participate in throughout 2024.…

Brendan Harding

Hear about our SNAP journey at eResearch NZ

We are a community-led initiative comprised of academics and e-resource support staff, from a wide range of disciplines and career stages who use and facilitate numerical…

SNAP Christmas Drinks

We held our SNAP Christmas drinks on afternoon of 13 December, turn-out was small, but connections were strengthened. This event closed a very challenging 6 months for the…

Visiting the Centre for eResearch at Auckland University

In December Prof. Hunt, the SNAP lead, was in Auckland for a conference and dropped into visit the much larger Centre for eResearch at Auckland University. She was welcomed…

SNAP promotes the importance of the HPC support team

As part of the financial sustainability process the HPC team was proposed to be disestablished. The SNAP Champions Working Group defended the HPC team, and made a submission…

SNAP Chat cloud computing

“SNAP Chat”! An open invitation to SNAP members to a catered lunch-time seminar and chat. Brendan Harding gave an excellent talk on Cloud Computing with live examples. We…

Andre Geldenhuis leaving VUW

It is with great sadness, and mild panic, we are saying good-bye to Andre Geldenhuis. Andre has engaged strongly with academics at all levels providing a friendly…

Markus Luczak-Roesch stepping down from the SNAP working group

Markus Luczak-Roesch, from the School of Information Management and School of Business and Government has been one of our founding SNAP working group members. Due to the…

SCPS ChatGPT workshop

The School of Chemical and Physical Sciences had a lunchtime workshop on how we are using ChatGPT and thoughts to consider into the future. It was a packed room showing the…

May SNAP Newsletter!

The SNAP Newsletter tells you of SNAP activities and up-coming events, as well as other eActivies you may want to know about. The SNAP newsletter comes out at irregular…

Molecular modelling

“Molecular modelling techniques such as ligand docking are widely used for the study of protein–ligand interactions and for drug discovery and development. Docking can be…

HPC Morning Tea

The HPC Morning Tea is the best way to ask your questions about the Rāpoi cluster or simply chat to the support staff from CAD’s Research Capability Team. A hot beverage, a…

Konstantina Vasileva

SNAP Coffee March

Come enjoy a coffee with others who use simulation, numerics, analytics and programming as part of their research. 10.15-11.00, Milk and Honey, Kelburn Campus

Fluids in New Zealand (FiNZ) Workshop 2023

The 2023 Fluids in New Zealand (FiNZ) workshop was held at Victoria University of Wellington (Kelburn Campus) 15–17 February 2023.

Brendan Harding

Beginners Introduction to Computational Chemistry

A workshop suitable for those who had never used computational chemistry before as well as those who were beginners and wanted to advance their skills. People could find out…

SNAP Coffee November

On 4th Nov we had our 2nd coffee meeting, this is the first in person SNAP meeting since COVID restrictions were relaxed. We had a wonderful crowd arrive with 20 plus people…

SNAP’s first training workshop

What do Lorde, Seinfeld and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have in common? Aside from being awesome, properties of all three can be represented as text, whether that be…

Stephen Skalicky and Matt Plummer

The Antarctic Science Platform Winter School

The Antarctic Science Platform Modelling Hub (located within the Antarctic Research Centre at VUW) held their second annual “Winter School” on 5-6 Sep 2022 in Wellington.

Brief summary of our March survey

Prior to our inaugural workshop, we asked the university community to let us know what type of software and modelling tools they use for research. We received 22 complete…

Brendan Harding

Online Software Carpentry workshop

Software Carpentry teaches introductory computational skills that enable the use of key infrastructure such as performance computing clusters, and that aid data management…

Digital Humanities Interview

“Even learning very basic programming, even if you’re not very good at it, I think it totally transforms the idea of what you’re doing with that computer, or what a computer…

Refelctions on the First SNAP Event

The inaugural SNAP workshop was held on 13th April 2022 in an online format (via zoom). The main goal for the event was to provide an opportunity for the SNAP community to…

Brendan Harding