January 2014
Answering Questions
Author: Alistair GrantPosted: 22 Jan 2014 | 09:23
On Monday 2 December, I took part in a panel on Software Engineering for the Professional Software Development course at the University of Glasgow's Computing Science department. Organised by Dr Tim Storer, a lecturer in Software Engineering, the panel was an opportunity for 3rd-year students of the computing science and software engineering programmes to quiz a varied group of software engineers.
R users can calculate Hamming distance faster
Author: Terry SloanPosted: 10 Jan 2014 | 14:09
EPCC and the Division of Pathway Medicine at the University of Edinburgh have released version 1.0.5 of the SPRINT R software package. This includes a new faster parallel implementation of the Hamming distance function.
Supercomputing and prime numbers in Mathematics Today!
Author: Iain BethunePosted: 6 Jan 2014 | 14:51
As a follow-up to speaking at the British Science Festival in Sept 2013, I was asked to write an article for the Institute of Mathematics & its Applications about the PrimeGrid project. The full article is available online, or in the Dec 2013 edition of the Mathematics Today magazine.
