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 …
On the 25th of April David Lusher and Kieran Selvon gave a workshop on the Pandas Python “Data Analysis” library as part of the FEE module Advance Computational Methods II. The event was popular with attendees from outside the faculty including PhD and undergraduate students. Python is a becoming an …
Dr David Henty, a member of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh and the programme director of the MSc in High Performance Computing/High Performance computing with Data Science, ran a 3 day training course at the University of Southampton on the use of MPI to …
The University of Southampton’s Science and Engineering Day 2016 attracted several thousand visitors and take part in the activities available. Amongst a wide variety of displays and hands-on experiments at Highfield Campus, there were also a number of exhibits at the new Boldrewood Innovation Campus. This included a flight simulator, …
As part of the Advanced Computational Methods 2 module, Craig started the presentation by showing the capabilities of Reveal.JS such as themes, transitions and the ability to work with Markdown or use dynamic graphs such as those produced by D3.js. Kostas then went on to live-code the skeleton html file …
As part of the student-led workshops of Advanced Computational Methods II module, NGCM students Gabriele Boschetto and Alejandra Vergara prepared a 2-hours workshop focused on the introduction to LaTeX and BibTeX . LaTeX is a typesetting system that produces professional documents with high typographical quality and BibTeX is a powerful …