Geospatial data is the geographic data around us, it contains location information as well as extra information known as attribute information. This data can range from things like smart phones GPS information to voting preferences across a country to natural geographic features like the distribution of natural water sources, amongst …
The 2019 NGCM Summer Academy took place between 01 – 05 July 2019 on University of Southampton’s Boldrewood Campus. Thanks to everyone who attended; we hope you had a great time and learned a lot! The 2019 CDT-NGCM Summer Academy at the University of Southampton was the last to be …
During the final two days of the third annual NGCM Summer Academy, students and academics received a two day training course on 3D visualisation using Mayavi and VTK from Prabhu Ramachandran from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Bombay. VTK is an open source library providing 3D visualisation and …
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 …
As part of the NGCM Summer Academy I took part in a three day workshop which was lead by Min RK one of the core developers of both IPython and Project Jupyter. To avoid confusion it should be noted that Jupyter is the new incarnation of what was known as …
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are processors that have been built to render textures on the user’s screen and with the large demand from the gaming industry, they have made considerable advancements in the speed at which they can perform floating point operations (FLOPS). As computational modelling typically requires a great …