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 …
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, …
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 …
On 14 May 2015, the final student-led workshops given as part of the NGCM Advanced Computational Methods II module was presented by Jan Kamenik, Shriram Sunder and Stephen Gow. It introduced the C++ programming language. A description of the event, as well as others given as part of the module, …
A workshop was given on the HDF5 file format by James Harrison and Rory Brown as part of the Advanced Computational Methods II course. HDF5 is a hierarchical file format that allows that allows various types of data and metadata to be stored in the same file. It has a …
A workshop that introduced programming in Fortran was run as part of the Advanced Computational Methods II. The session was presented by Ioannis Begleris from the NGCM CDT and Hao Wang. Materials covered included the very basics of Fortran programming, highlighting the differences between different versions of the language and …
Tue 14 April 2015 Following on from the OpenMP training that took place in March, David Henty from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) delivered a 3 day intensive course on the MPI parallel programming model and library for NGCM CDT PhD students, other PhD students and staff from Southampton …
Representatives from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) visited the University of Southampton today to deliver the first of a three day training course in OpenMP parallel programming. Dr Mark Bull presented the theory of multi-threaded and shared memory programming as part of the NGCM Advanced Computational Methods II FEEG6003 …