Wed 24 June 2015 Students and academics received a two day training course on programming the Intel Xeon Phi to kick off this week’s events at the first annual NGCM Summer Academy. Adrian Jackson of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) delivered the material, which is available on the Archer …
As part of the first annual NGCM Summer Academy, Chris Fonnesbeck of Vanderbilt University and Skipper Seabold of Civis Analytics delivered a two-day training course on the Pandas data analysis library for the Python programming language. Pandas is a Python package designed to handle tabular, matrix and time series data, …
The FEniCS project is collection of software that focuses on solving differential equations using Finite element methods. The project allows researchers to specify their problem in its mathematical form and FEniCS automatically generates the result. This greatly reduces the amount of time that one would need to model the problem. …
During the second half of the 2015 NGCM Summer Academy, Jérôme Velut from Kitware introduced attendees to the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and the ParaView application. VTK is a powerful 3D data visualisation package written in C++, with wrappers for Python, Java and Tcl. The pipeline structure of VTK allows many …
Among the first training courses of this year’s NGCM Summer Academy was an introduction to cloud and HPC computing with Microsoft Azure by Dr Kenji Takeda from Microsoft Research. Microsoft Azure essentially allows the provision of ‘temporary’ supercomputers on demand. It can be used to set up a high performance …