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We help all researchers and students at UiT to develop and improve their research software. This can span from simple R or Python scripts to complex GPU-enabled software packages.

Save time on your project by getting quick and comprehensive help by experts.

"I highly recommend this service to any researcher looking for reliable and efficient computational resources."

"Great support. Saved me weeks and weeks of time. Super helpful and friendly."

"RSE helped me adapt my analysis to run on the HPC computing cluster at UiT. This cut the time to run my analysis from many days down to hours."

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Get research data management and coding support the University Library and the Research Software Engineering Group

Help Desk sessions are held nearly every Wednesday from 14:00–16:00.

More details about this week's Help Desk session, including location and scheduling, are available on the Tavla event page.

What we offer

  • Help with improving your scripts/code
    • Code review: we look together at your code/script and give constructive feedback and advice
    • Making code more reproducible and reusable
    • Advice and help how to best document code
  • Help with organising your code
    • Help with modularizing and streamlining your code
    • Help with moving your work/project/code/data to Git
    • Help with Git, GitHub, and GitLab
    • Help with organization of reusable and reproducible Jupyter notebooks and Binder
  • Help with sharing your code
    • Help publishing your code
    • Help with software licenses and open-sourcing
    • Packaging and sharing software
    • Using/creating containers (Singularity, Docker)
    • Help with pip, PyPI, and Conda
  • Help with running your code faster
    • Improving scaling, CPU, and memory footprint of research code
    • Accelerating your code with GPUs
    • Moving from local computer to cloud or high-performance computing (using e.g. NRIS resources)

If you have questions about code you wrote or want to write, please contact us or come and talk to us