March 2019
Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19)
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 19 Mar 2019 | 10:16
The Software Sustainability Institute's (SSI) Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) will be held at the West Park Teaching Hub, Loughborough University, Loughborough from 1-3 April 2019. This year the workshop will be themed around topics based on interoperability, documentation, training, and sustainability. Keynote speakers will include Catherine Stihler, CEO of Open Knowledge International, and Franziska Heine (link points to a German article), Head of Software & Development at Wikimedia Deutschland. They will open the event on 1st April.
Event review: What data-driven innovation means for business in Scotland
Author: Mark SawyerPosted: 6 Mar 2019 | 10:13
EPCC is at the heart of the Data Driven Innovation programme of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal. This £661m programme will lead to the creation of major new data services for Scottish business, with EPCC providing the World Class Data Infrastructure (WCDI) that will underpin it.
Last week we hosted an event to explain the enormous potential of data-driven innovation for industry and to show how companies are already using data technologies to enhance commercial performance.
Proof-driven queries to preserve patient privacy
Author: Mike JacksonPosted: 4 Mar 2019 | 09:42
In our role as members of the Research Engineering Group of the Alan Turing Institute, Anna Roubickova and I worked with Efi Tsamoura and Benjamin Spencer (Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford) on PDQ, a proof-driven query planner that has great potential within the realm of data science for medical research.
EPCC at the 2019 Big Bang Fair
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 3 Mar 2019 | 17:28
For the fourth year running, from Wednesday 13th March to Saturday 16th of March, EPCC will be attending the Big Bang Fair (BBF) at the NEC in Birmigham to demonstrate the wonders of supercomputing. The BBF encourages young people to adopt STEM-based subjects at school and later as a career – not only through universities but also apprenticeships and other career choices. This is also a great opportunity for our colleagues to undertake some outreach.
HPC-Europa3 visitor publishes paper in Physical Review Letters
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 1 Mar 2019 | 12:33
Former HPC-Europa3 visitor Dr Mats Simmermacher, Dr Adam Kirrander (Mats' host from the University of Edinburgh's School of Chemistry), and their collaborators from Edinburgh and Copenhagen have recently published a paper in the prestigious Physical Review Letters where they discuss a new effect in ultrafast X-ray scattering.
