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Summer of HPC at EPCC: Make it simple but significant – HPC usage visualisation
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 27 Jul 2017 | 00:00
This guest post is by Jakub Piotr Nurski, one of our 2017 Summer of HPC visitors.
Almost two weeks have passed since my first visit to EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. I met my mentor Andy Turner in the first week and we started working on my project from the first minute of our meeting. Here is a little background to the idea of a project...
Summer of HPC: Machine-Learning in Python for Well Log Correlation
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 25 Jul 2017 | 00:00
This guest post is by Dimitra Anevlavi, one of our 2017 Summer of HPC visitors.
I am currently in Edinburgh, home of the biggest celebration of arts and culture on the planet, and of course I am referring to the famous Fringe Festival. But we have plenty of time until the festival begins and my blog starts documenting all the exciting cultural events that happen in this cool city. So it is just the right moment for me to introduce you to my internship project for PRACE’s Summer of HPC.
Teaching the world to program
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 18 Jul 2017 | 11:56
Wearing my Software Sustainability Institute hat, I taught at the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School in Italy last week. With participants from five of the seven continents, sadly Australia and Antartica being under-represented, it was truly a global Summer School.
The experience of a lifetime : ISC’17 Student Cluster Competition
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 13 Jul 2017 | 23:49
A team of students from EPCC's MSc programmes took part in this year's Student Cluster Competition at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Germany. The competition requires teams to design and configure a cluster on which they optimise and run benchmarks and applications within a power budget of 3000 watts.
Here Team EPCC and its coach Emmanouil Farsarakis tell us about their hard work and its rewards.
Changing the world: Women In HPC at ISC 2017
Author: Toni CollisPosted: 7 Jul 2017 | 10:36
This year's ISC conference in Frankfurt was the best week for Women in HPC (WHPC) since our launch in 2014.
I spent a lot of my week personally talking about how I want to ‘make the world a better place’. It sounds very cliché but I believe it is a message that we in HPC need to embrace more if we are to encourage more women to move into HPC and something we all need to talk about more. As such as I was thrilled that during ISC, WHPC participated in activities across the full extent of the conference and spoke to a record number of attendees about the importance and benefits of creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. This was WHPC’s own little contribution to changing the world!
US Naval Academy visit to EPCC
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 26 Jun 2017 | 12:10
Our guest blogger is Prof. Carl Albing of the US Naval Academy. Prof. Albing and two students recently came to EPCC for a three-week study project.
Cirrus transformed into Tier-2 system
Author: Andy TurnerPosted: 19 Jun 2017 | 15:35
EPCC has received £2.4m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part its £20m investment in six new Tier-2 HPC centres.
Wee Archlet: our homemade Raspberry Pi cluster
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 16 Jun 2017 | 14:18
Download our instructions to build your own Raspbery Pi cluster.
EPCC presents its first supercomputing MOOC
Author: Weronika FilingerPosted: 15 Jun 2017 | 13:56
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) provide free web-based distance learning opportunities to large numbers of geographically dispersed students. Here at EPCC we are always keen to talk about supercomputing, and becoming involved in this MOOC was a natural development for us.
MSc student placements with local industry
Author: Marc SabatePosted: 15 Jun 2017 | 13:51
Our MSc programmes' industry-based dissertation projects enhance our students’ skills and employability by tackling a real-world project, gaining workplace experience, exploring potential career paths and building relationships with local companies.
