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Gladys Utrera was an HPC Europa3 visitor to EPCC from 1st of July to the 3rd of August 2019. She has been an HPC Europa visitor before - in this brief blog article she tells us what she did this time.

Hi! My name is Gladys Utrera and I currently work at the Computer Architecture Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. There I combine teaching of parallel computing and operating systems subjects with research on HPC topics and parallel programming models. Thanks to the HPC-Europa3 programme I could spend four weeks at the EPCC in the University of Edinburgh with my host Mark Bull who is a very well-known expert in my research areas. This is my third research visit to EPCC, and the second as an HPC-Europa visitor. 

My research involves executions on large multi-core node clusters. In addition, performance evaluations on machines with different architectures characteristics like ARCHER and Cirrus, enrich my results greatly. 

Caelen Feller, a PRACE Summer of HPC(link is external) (SoHPC) student working with Wee Archie, gives us the final status report of his project. You can also read his original post.

In our October 2018 blog post on Analysing humanities data using Cray Urika-GX, we described how we had been collaborating with Melissa Terras of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) at The University of Edinburgh to explore historical newspapers and books using the Alan Turing Institute's deployment of a Cray Urika-GX system ("Urika"). In this blog post we describe additional work we have done, to look at the origins of the term "stranger danger", find reports on the Krakatoa volcanic eruption of 1883, and explore the concept of "female emigration".

Caelen Feller, a PRACE Summer of HPC (SoHPC) student working with Wee Archie, gives us an overview and status report of his project.

As I have said previously, I’m working with Wee ARCHIE, EPCC's mini supercomputer, this summer. Wee Archie is made of 16 Raspberry Pi chips – each very small, lightweight computers connected together to work as a single machine. With each chip is an attached LED panel, allowing me to display what is occurring on the chip and how it is communicating to other chips. I have created a series of tutorials and simple demonstrations to be run on Wee Archie which explain the basics of message passing using MPI to a complete novice in parallel computing and non-expert in computers in general.