October 2018
Your data is secure with EPCC!
Author: Anne WhitingPosted: 29 Oct 2018 | 15:19
Here at EPCC we aim to be a leader in the secure hosting and management of huge and varied datasets to support data research. For example we host and manage Safe Havens on behalf of the Farr Institute and Scottish Genome Partnership, with a Safe Haven for the Alan Turing Institute under development.
Making complex machines easier to use efficiently
Author: Daniel HolmesPosted: 24 Oct 2018 | 16:48
Supercomputers are getting more complex. Faster components would be impossible to cool but, by doing more with less, we can still solve bigger problems faster than ever before.
HPC-Europa Transnational Access Meeting (TAM 2018)
Author: Catherine InglisPosted: 23 Oct 2018 | 09:49
EPCC has now been welcoming visitors from the HPC-Europa3 programme for a year. To mark this we hosted the first user group meeting in Edinburgh in October.
My work experience week at EPCC
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 22 Oct 2018 | 11:39
Seventeen-year-old Sam Dewar spent a week at EPCC in October as part of his school's work experience programme. In this post he describes how he got on.
I spent a week doing work experience at EPCC, where I was given the goal of setting up and testing a homemade Raspberry Pi cluster ‘Wee Archlet’ using a set of instructions provided to me. I also helped find areas for improvement in the instructions by pointing out parts that I struggled to understand so that other people who have little experience with supercomputers can make a cluster too.
Broadcasting your shell output
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 18 Oct 2018 | 12:47
During a Software Carpentry course you, as an instructor, stand in front of a class typing your lesson content, eg bash or git, and the students type what you type into their own shell.
Depending on the layout of the room, you need to make the font on your terminal large enough for all students to see it, which can be somewhat disorientating as an instructor. Moreover if the layout of the room is not ideal, eg some students are facing away from the screen, they will have to constantly turn to see the screen, which can be a pain for them. But I recently found a Python app that changes all that.
