The University of Southampton hosted a two day Fortran modernization workshop organized by Dr Wadud Miah (Numerical Algorithms Group), and Dr Nico De Tullio (University of Southampton). Centred around software engineering for computational sciences, the workshop gave participants hands on experience in modern Fortran programming and introduced them to commonly …
Today the NGCM were pleased to welcome fourth-year PhD student David Hahn from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria, to present research from the Wojtan group on physics-based visual effects for fractures and fluids. David’s work uses surface-based numerical methods to create realistic simulations of complex physical interactions, …
In April 2015 there was a devastating earthquake in Nepal, killing thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands more. Robin Wilson was working for the Flowminder Foundation at the time, and was given the task of processing millions of rows of mobile phone call records to try and extract useful information …
On days 4 and 5 of the NGCM Summer Academy 2016, Adrian Jackson from EPCC gave an introduction to parallel programming with the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, including a lot of very useful hands-on advice on serial and parallel code optimisation. The course started with a general introduction to processors, …
Thu 23 June 2016 As part of the NGCM Summer Academy 2016, Professor Marie Rognes delivered a two days workshop on FEniCS, a collaborative project for the development of innovative concepts and tools for automated scientific computing. Specifically, the workshop focused on the problem-solving environment dolfin, with particular attention to …
As part of the second annual NGCM Summer Academy, students and academics received a two day training course on the Pandas data analysis library for the Python programming language by Chris Fonnesbeck from the Department of Biostatistics at the Vanderbilt University and Skipper Seabold from Civis Analytics. Pandas is an …
A CPU (Central Processing Unit) typically has 2-6 cores that operate at a frequency between 1.5-3.5 GHz. A Graphics Processing Unit (GPUs) consist of 100s of cores that operate at a frequency of 500-900 MHz and it is typically used to compute the textures or even physics in computer games. …
Guest blog entry: text by Mark Vousden of the Institute for Complex System Simulation DTC. It’s rare to set up a free WordPress site, and complete Internet of Things and machine learning stacks in two days – but that’s what the students of the Microsoft Azure cloud computing course delivered …
It’s been a busy, challenging, but extremely rewarding year. Last September I made a blog post about the NGCM Programming Primer week. This week of training held at the start of each new academic year is aimed at giving all new NGCM members (baring in mind not everyone will be …
Dr Mark Bull, researcher in the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), ran a 3 day workshop on parallel programming using OpenMP. The event was open to all the scientific community, with 30 participants coming from a number of Universities, such as Manchester, Oxford, London and Tanzania. The course started by …