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Fortissimo! Digital simulation and modelling for European industry
Author: Mark ParsonsPosted: 10 Oct 2013 | 10:27
I am very pleased to announce the start of Fortissimo, a 3-year project led by EPCC that will focus on the development of a Cloud of HPC resources for use, initially, by European manufacturing companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
GPGPU hardware for Numerical Simulations
Author: Adrian JacksonPosted: 9 Oct 2013 | 11:47
The NAIS project (Numerical Algorithms and Intellegent Software), which EPCC is a member of, has recently purchased 8 NVidia K20 GPGPUs, and associated computer nodes to house them, for use by NAIS members and researchers.
A Day at Our Dynamic Earth
Author: Alistair GrantPosted: 5 Oct 2013 | 12:01
In September, Our Dynamic Earth held a two-day event called 'Meet the Experts' for groups of secondary school pupils. EPCC was invited to attend, with Iain Bethune and myself volunteering to give short talks on what supercomputing is and why it is needed.
Prime Numbers talk: audio and slides
Author: Iain BethunePosted: 4 Oct 2013 | 11:02
As mentioned in Alistair Grant's blog about our exhibition at the British Science Festival, I also gave a talk as part of the BSF Maths programme entitled "PrimeGrid: Join in the search for a world record prime number".
Software Carpentry Boot Camp: 3-4 December, Edinburgh
Author: Mike JacksonPosted: 2 Oct 2013 | 14:07
EPCC is hosting a Software Carpentry boot camp on 3-4 December 2013. The boot camp is designed to teach software development skills to researchers, helping them to do more in less time and with less pain.
Kicking-off Adept!
Author: Michele WeilandPosted: 30 Sep 2013 | 15:58
Adept, EPCC’s latest EU project, started officially on the 1st September and we held our kick-off meeting in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago. The project partners travelled from Sweden (Uppsala University and Ericsson) and Belgium (Ghent), as well as from just across town (Alpha Data) to take part.
McMPI at the EuroMPI 2013 conference
Author: Daniel HolmesPosted: 26 Sep 2013 | 10:05
Following my presentation about McMPI at the EuroMPI 2013 conference last week, some people asked me to post the slides. The presentation and the associated paper give a brief introduction to the McMPI software and quickly cover some of my thoughts about threading in MPI.
Supercomputing at Bang Goes the Borders
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 23 Sep 2013 | 09:43
Funding available through the Software Sustainability Institute's Fellowship
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 18 Sep 2013 | 16:28
This article comes from Aleksandra Pawlik from the Software Sustainability Institute, Manchester
The Software Sustainability Institute is offering Fellowships with £3000 funding for travel, collaboration and running events. The Fellowship Programme 2014 recognises outstanding UK-based researchers who use software.
The deadline for the applications is 27th September 2013 at 5pm BST. Apply now to become a Fellow!
Hybrid MPI+PGAS programming models tutorial
Author: Nick BrownPosted: 18 Sep 2013 | 11:37
Here at EPCC we are very excited about the PGAS2013 conference which is being held in Edinburgh on the 3rd and 4th of October. This will be the 7th international PGAS conference and, as always, it will be a great chance for those in the community to discuss latest developments in the field and their research.
