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Makespace a Place to Inspire Creativity The magazine For The sTaff oF The UniversiTy oF CamBriDge lenT Term 2015 makespace a place to inspire creativity Big Data: making Flying science’s things clearer? incredible story page 8 page 10 snapshoT red lion roars: A long-hidden Cambridge gem has been given a ConTenTs new home by Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club. The red lion sculpture which had adorned Lion Cover Yard shopping centre until its removal Cambridge ideas have made some years ago now sits in the club’s a difference to the world for Grange Road ground. Nick Bennett, hundreds of years. Becky the club’s chairman, said: “The red lion Allen visits Makespace, is our symbol and you see it reflected which since 2012 has everywhere in the club. We hope it will helped makers from across bring us more luck in our future Varsity Cambridge transform new matches.” ideas into reality. Turn to page six. CAMBRIDGE NEWS 2-5 news round-up leGO Pompeii: A little piece of Cambridge – in the form of Professor 6-7 Cover feature Andrew Wallace-Hadrill – has been 8-9 Know your university immortalised at the exhibition LEGO How we capture, analyse, curate, store, Pompeii. Made using more than 100,000 search and share data is one of the 21st bricks the exhibition opened in January century’s major challenges. Paul Kirkley at the University of Sydney’s Nicholson useum finds out how Cambridge researchers are Museum. In a nod to his hugely popular M rising to the challenge of ‘big data’. BBC documentary on Herculaneum, Wallace-Hadrill can be spotted doing a icholson 10-11 Behind the scenes piece to camera in Pompeii’s Forum. , N From the 1930 maiden flight of the R100 The exhibition runs all year. urner airship to the Whipple Museum’s delicate T glass models of fungi, Louise Walsh ichael M discovers how science can profit from large-scale technological developments. Featuring events from astronomy to zoology, the Cambridge Science Festival 12 People takes place from 9-22 March this year. The festival provides an opportunity 13 Small adverts for everyone to explore and discuss 14-15 Prizes, awards and honours science with our renowned scientists and stars of the future. If you would like Front cover photograph: Chris Loades to volunteer and be part of this event, contact the festival organisers at: [email protected]. newsletter The Newsletter is published for the staff of the ALICE BOAGEY University of Cambridge and is produced by the Clare College boatman, Anton Wright, Office of External Affairs and Communications. is helping a group of children from If you have a story, or ideas for ways we can Parkside Community College get to improve the publication, please get in touch. grips with rowing. They are helping Tel: (3)32300 or email [email protected]. to repair the boat he used in his 2013 Suggestions for articles for the next edition should reach the Editor by 10 March. World Record row on the Amazon. Managing Editor: Paul Holland They will also learn to row during the Editor: Becky Allen Parkside Rowing Challenge so that, in Design: Creative Warehouse, Cambridge April, they can use it to row along the Printers: Labute Printers Thames. Wright says the project is aimed Contributors: Becky Allen, Paul Kirkley and Louise at giving the children “skills they can use Walsh in the future”. newsletter online CAMBRIDGE NEWS www.cam.ac.uk/for-staff 2 | lent term 2015 | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NEwSletter WHAT’s NEW Your comments and contributions are always welcome. Please send them to the Editor at [email protected] The deadline for the next issue is 10 march. Up and running: new green Data Centre THE University’S new energy- efficient data centre which aims to significantly cut power consumption is now up and running. The two-storey facility, which houses four data halls over 2,200m², is located on the West Cambridge Site and centralises many of the University’s machine rooms into one secure, managed facility. Ian Tasker, West Cambridge Data Centre manager, said: “The West Cambridge Data Centre project marks out the University as a clear early- adopter of the latest energy-efficient technology, showing what can be achieved and leading the way for other HE establishments to follow.” Initially, the West Cambridge Data Centre will serve the current illie G and future needs of University amian Information Services and the D institutions for which it manages Inside the Data Centre located on the West Cambridge site IT infrastructure, the High Performance Computing Service Networks, with back-up power many more racks to be fitted as 1.0 – the West Cambridge Data Centre (HPCS), and the administrative needs guaranteed with enough fuel to run demand increases. This allows for the is expected to deliver a PUE of 1.2. of Cambridge Assessment, which for 72 hours. It also uses a “cooled addition of the latest technologies as The rating is not far off that of large manages the University’s three water” method as opposed to energy- they emerge. global organisations such as Google exam boards. hungry chillers to keep the system Energy efficiency for data and Facebook which have made The main power is supplied via working at the right temperature. centres is measured by Power Usage significant investments in their green dual 11,000KV feeds from UK Power The facility has the capacity for Effectiveness (PUE). The ‘ideal’ PUE is data centres. Tube map shows the way ahead for the University’s network 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Zoo Sub Dept Girton Boat Houses The iconic Transport for We created the ‘underground map’ University Farm A A Huntingdon Rd Madingley Hall London Tube map has been given to show the extent of the service Histon Rd Halifax Rd the Cambridge treatment to show that we provide, and hope that it Trinity Hall Storeys Way Magdalene West Magdalene Chesterton Rd Magrath Avenue Jesus Green Magdalene East The Colony Mornington Crescent how far the University’s fibre-optic offers an interesting and informative Wychfield River Cam B Murray B Fitzwilliam Edwards St Edmund’s Kettles Yard Magdalene Trinity Hall Thompson’s Lane Thompson’s Lane St John’s Rd network stretches. presentation.” Westminster College Wolfson Lucy St John’s Astronomy Court IMS Maths Cavendish East Trinity Sidney Sussex Jesus With a nod to classic re-interpret- Like Patterson’s artwork, which St John’s West Trinity Hall Churchill Gravel Farm Hill Clare Whittle Madingley Rd Gonville & Caius East ations of the map, such as artist replaces London’s stations and lines C Old Christ’s C Schools Earth Sciences King’s UIS Clare Fossedene Burrel’s Field Library Memorial Simon Patterson’s The Great Bear, the with the names of saints, artists and Corpus Christi Bene’t Street Veterinary Medicine William Needham St Catharine’s Gates Research KGH Building Institute Social & Political Sciences University Information Services (UIS) stars of TV and film, the GBN stylised Clare Hall Sidgwick Site Darwin Mill Lane North Soulsby Robinson New Museums Site Laundry Farm Cavendish St Catharine’s Cripps Selwyn Harvey Court Queens’ Queens’ St Chad’s Court West East Emmanuel DATA CENTRE transformed it to show the extent of map exchanges the names of routes D D Institute for Corpus Grasshopper Newnham Kelsey Manufacturing Hauser Forum Leckhampton Lodge House Pembroke Downing Site Downing Parker’s Piece Kerridge Materials Sports Chemical Residencies Science Centre Engineering Newnham Newnham Hughes Hall Mill Lane South its Granta Backbone Network (GBN). and stops with Cambridge-themed & Metallurgy Wolfson Terrace 7 Selwyn Old Addenbrooke’s Gardens Peterhouse Anglia Ruskin Caius Pavilion University Gwen Barton Rd West Raverat Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Jon Holgate, Head of Networks titles like Bumps and Bruises, The Assessment Mill Road West Grange Rd Engineering Saxon St Chemistry 10 Selwyn Gardens St Catharine’s Architecture Panton Street Harvey Road Fenners E South Green Lodge Barton Rd East Malting House E Darwin Line Under Consideration Botanic Garden for UIS, said: “The University of Turing Loop, and Book Line & Thinker. Book Line & Thinker Leased Fibre Line (Redstone) St. Paul’s Road Chaucer Road Turing Loop Leased Fibre Line (Virgin) Owlstone Croft Grange Rd South Gresham Road Cats & Queens Line Site Fibre Line (Clinical School) Latham Road Cambridge has a world-class, city- A version of the map is available Trinity Hall to CNH NMS River Cam University Press Glisson Road Zoo Line Interchange Stations Bumps & Bruises Line Faculty of Education wide fibre-optic network, stretching by going to: www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/ Astronomy to Cavendish Homerton Russell St. Newton Line GBN Addenbrooke’s Site F F MRC LMB CRUK more than 45 kilometres and linking network/other/images/GBNMap Forvie Site Strangeways 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 two hundred collegiate institutions. V18a.pdf. lent term 2015 | UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE NEwSletter | 3 whaT’s new Celebrating Cambridge old and new ANNIVERSARY celebrations for one of the world’s most iconic buildings – and for two of Cambridge’s youngest colleges – are taking place this year. King’s College Chapel is marking its 500th anniversary, while Wolfson and Lucy Cavendish celebrate their 50th years. The Chapel was completed in 1515 after decades of work that was initiated by Henry VI in 1441. Several events are planned throughout the year including a series of concerts performed in the chapel. A new book about the chapel has been published containing 17 essays heppell and illustrations exploring the artistic, Wolfson’s Lee Library SIR CAM musical, religious and cultural history keith of the building. Specially created stamps are history and achievements since the programme of events to mark the www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/50.
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