August 2013
How fast is a dinosaur?
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 19 Aug 2013 | 10:40
Is a dinosaur faster if it has longer legs? Is it better for it to be bigger, and hence cover more distance, or to be smaller and lighter? Which species is the fastest? Thanks to high-performance computing, you will soon be able to experiment yourself, and try and find answers to all those questions!
Debt owed to the source code makers featured in Times Higher Education
Author: Simon HettrickPosted: 15 Aug 2013 | 14:11
I'm happy to announce that the Software Sustainability Institute's campaign to gain recognition for research software engineers is featured in this week's Times Higher Education. The Software Sustainability Institute is led from its base at EPCC and works in collaboration with the universities of Manchester, Oxford and Southampton.
Next Generation Sound Synthesis
Author: James PerryPosted: 13 Aug 2013 | 14:16
When you think about applications for high performance computing and large-scale simulations, you probably think of particle physics, or climate modelling, maybe molecular biology. You probably don't think of music. But the Next Generation Sound Synthesis project (NESS) may change that.Wait a minute, where *are* my data?
Author: Rob BaxterPosted: 7 Aug 2013 | 11:56
Policy restrictions on data storage can make the straightforward technological problems complex, over-constrained and potentially insoluble.
Pic credit: Jeff Rowley Big Wave Surfer
As the slowly toppling wave of research data begins to overwhelm us all, we're increasingly looking for new ways to automate the management of all these bits. Keeping human curators and data managers in the loop becomes ever more unscalable and unsustainable. So, we're storing data in the Cloud, auto-replicating them five ways so we don't lose any, letting the systems manage the data for us.
EPCC at British Science Festival 2013
Author: Iain BethunePosted: 2 Aug 2013 | 12:19
The programme for the British Science Festival 2013 in Newcastle has now been released and EPCC is running two events this year.The first is an exhibition booth in the Discovery Science Centre on Saturday 7th September, where we will be showing off a range of HPC demos including the Virtual Paleontology 'Dinosaur Racing' game currently being developed by one of our PRACE Summer of HPC students, as well as some other new ideas developed during Innovative Learning Week on our MSc, and of course a range of HPC hardware old and new.
