Today, the CDT students in year 1 learned about webpage and blog generation using the Pelican tool in a session delivered by the centre’s director. Static webpages, as are often used for webpages containing teaching material, documentation and blogs, can be created in many ways. Over the recent years, many …
Mr Robert Condon and Dr Shilong Lu from Fidelity Data Networks Ltd introduced the PLEXUS platform: Fidelity’s new Plexus cloud-based, managed services platform connects intelligent devices to remote assets, networks, machines, infrastructure and industrial processes for real time monitoring, control and analysis of events and data. Plexus uses a DEVICE …
The Python Programming Primer is the first training experience that the NGCM CDT students take part in. For our cohort starting in Autumn 2014, this course was taking place two weeks before the start of the teaching semester, to provide a common base in programming: most of the taught modules …
Paul Fryer, IBM Europe’s Academic Initiative Leader, came to Southampton to introduce us to the ‘thinking’ and possibly world changing computer system Watson. Watson first came to the worlds attention when it took on, and convincingly beat, former champions on the US game show Jeopardy. Watson achieved this feat by …
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. It operates a 24/7 lifeboat service around the coast of the UK and republic of Ireland. It designs, supplies and supports lifeboats and related plant and equipment for over 200 lifeboat stations. Jodie Walsh’s presentation was an introduction to the …
Nick Granger Brown, Mike Elder and Alex Kay shared an overview of computational modelling used at Seagate Systems Ltd UK to support development engineering, continuous improvement and future technology and growth. Simulation of mechanical stress and vibrations, and heat transfer and cooling were described in more detail. The validation of …
Dr Lambkin from ABPmer opened the seminar series for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Next Generation Computational Modelling (NGCM), with a presentation on the work of ABPmer, and the computational challenges they face. These includes simulations of tides, waves and sediment transport processes to inform and enhance …
As part of the induction activities, the CDT students were given the following team building exercise. Given a printout of a computer-generated view of the Boldrewood campus (figure 1, top), they were given 30 minutes to re-create that scene as realistically as possible. Available props given were the Boldrewood campus …
The training and research of postgraduate students at the University of Southampton is set to benefit from new high-performance computer equipment, following a successful bid worth almost £400k. The University’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling (NGCM) has recently won a bid from the Engineering and Physical …
Following several open days, we expect our first cohort to arrive in Southampton on 15 September 2014. The taught programme will start with an intensive one-week training programme in Python programming for computational science and engineering. Additional induction activities will take place until 26 September, and the first semester will …