March 2013
Collaborations Workshop 2013
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 27 Mar 2013 | 13:02
This year's Collaboration Workshop, organised by the Software Sutainability Institute, was held in the dreamy spires of Oxford. In particular Merton College, Oxford which turned out to be an apt setting for this kind of thing.
Supercomputers at school
Author: Eilidh TroupPosted: 22 Mar 2013 | 14:56
National Science and Engineering Week 2013 saw a gang of four from EPCC and Cray head to St Peters RC Primary School in Edinburgh. The group was introducing some ideas and activities about supercomputers and what they are used for. The group, Jo, Jason, Eilidh and Alistair were talking and interacting with the primary 5, 6 and 7 classes.
Data sans frontieres
Author: Rob BaxterPosted: 21 Mar 2013 | 16:32
Monday 18th March, a chilly day in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the formal launch of the Research Data Alliance. With keynotes from EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Australian Ambassador to the EU Duncan Lewis and NSF Director of Computer and Information Science and Engineering Farnam Jahanian this was a significant event, and indication of the importance that policy makers and funders are now attaching to the management of, and access to, research data worldwide.
EPCC team enters the ISC’13 Student Cluster Challenge
Author: Xu GuoPosted: 21 Mar 2013 | 14:06
[The article was contributed by the EPCC Student Cluster Challenge competition team.]
The Student Cluster Challenge at ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) is a competition where student teams from around the world build clusters competing against each other to achieve the maximum performance whilst remaining within a strict power limit of 3kW. Cluster performance will be assessed by the HPCC (HPC Challenge) benchmark suite and a set of real world benchmarks.
