PRACE Summer of HPC 2019 opens applications

Posted on Wednesday, 16 January 2019 by

Leon Kos Posted in Blogs 2018 — No Comments ↓

Late-stage undergraduate and Master’s students are invited to apply for the PRACE Summer of HPC 2019 programme, to be held in July & August 2019. Consisting of a training week and two months on placement at top HPC centres around…

Announcing Summer of HPC 2019

Posted on Wednesday, 12 December 2018 by

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Applications are open from 18th of January 2019. See the Timeline for more details. PRACE Summer of HPC programme is announcing projects for 2019 for preview and comments by students. Please send questions to coordinators directly by the 15th of January. Clarifications will…

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Bikes!

Posted on Saturday, 8 September 2018 by

Filip Kuklis Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

As I said in my first blog post, I came from a city called little Amsterdam because of bikes. Therefore it was obvious that I would buy a bike here. I wanted to buy the cheapest bike possible. You can…

Spooky action at the distance

Posted on Friday, 7 September 2018 by

Filip Kuklis Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

I would like to start with a joke: Cat walks into a bar… and doesn’t. That is Schrodinger’s cat which shows us how bizarre the quantum world is. Some people understand Schrodinger’s cat experiment in a way that you can…

Frisbee Vlog

Posted on Friday, 7 September 2018 by

Eva Havelková Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Traveling to foreign countries for longer periods of time is always a great experience, especially because you have a chance to really get to know the culture and to meet new people. Making friends abroad might often be a challenging task,…

Flatpacking the data processing system. Innovative IKEA “FåKopp kaffe” system – a case study

Posted on Friday, 31 August 2018 by

Jakub Mojsiejuk Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

After two months of intensive work here in the heart of Scottish pride plains, a time has come to conclude the results and verify the initial expectations. My project was developed as a part of a data processing framework for…

Tagged with: big-data, Edinburgh, Jakub Mojsiejuk, kafka, processing

Algorithms and Adventures

Posted on Tuesday, 28 August 2018 by

Conor O'Mara Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

In my previous post I discussed Job Scheduling algorithms, now I will tackle how we are approaching working with them. In my project, the NEXTGENIO research group (which is part of PRACE) have made a HPC system simulator that allows…

Programming LED lights

Posted on Friday, 24 August 2018 by

Eva Havelková Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

In my previous post I summed up what it is like to build up a Raspberry Pi based “supercomputer”. Since Raspberry Pi is a versatile device there are many more fun things one can do with it besides just running programs…

Importance of a Sensei and HPC kung fu!

Posted on Wednesday, 22 August 2018 by

Atul Singh Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

This time I would simply like to boast the awesomeness of my Sensei, here at Cineca, who has been indirectly, gelled with some fascinating and intriguing conversations, teaching me HPC kung fu! Well, it is me grasping more than…

The Ballad of Fast Multipoles

Posted on Tuesday, 21 August 2018 by

Wojciech Nawrocki Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

In fields of complex numbers forests of many an-octree a lone student now slumbers unknowing of horrors to be The slug-dragon lurks yonder its square head a dim wonder daren’t thither unarmed wander lest ye are of death fonder First…

Tagged with: 2018, Germany, JSC, Wojciech Nawrocki

If your problem is too big, get a GPU to do the work!

Posted on Monday, 20 August 2018 by

Marius Neumann Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello again, it is time to update you on my project and since Marc already told you what lattice Quantum Chromodynamics is about we can dive right in. To deal with QCD, we take a four dimensional space-time lattice and…

Tagged with: Cypus, GPUs, Lattice QCD, Marius Neumann, speedup

Canoeing in Little Danube

Posted on Monday, 20 August 2018 by

George Nikoulis Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Bratislava is a great city. The first thing that caught my attention when my airplane landed at Bratislava airport was the big green landscapes. The first impression of the city was really great and I couldn’t wait to explore the…

Tagged with: 2018, blog, Bratislava, George Nikoulis, PRACE, Slovakia, SoHPC, Summer of HPC

Is your code malleable?

Posted on Thursday, 16 August 2018 by

Sukhminder Singh Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Grey cast iron, white cast iron, ductile iron, malleable iron,……. Oh my gosh, so many types of cast iron! What is the difference? This was the question which always used to annoy me when I was graduating as a mechanical engineer.…

Tagged with: LAMMPS, Malleability, PRACE, Slurm, Spain, Sukhminder Singh, Summer of HPC 2018, UJI

A HPC System and Web Visualization with Grafana

Posted on Thursday, 16 August 2018 by

Nazmiye Arslan Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

What is a HPC system ? High performance computing (HPC) is the use of parallel processing for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly. Typical users are scientific researchers, engineers, data analysts. In the race for Exascale supercomputer systems,…

Chat with PhD Student Irina Tihaa about Neuroelectronics

Posted on Wednesday, 15 August 2018 by

Janni Harju Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

This Friday the JSC’s summer students arrived, which meant that I was able to tag along for their introductory tour of the Jülich Föreschungszentrum. We cycled around the campus with our guide, Irina Tihaa, a PhD student studying “neuroelectronics”. I…

If your problem is too big, make it smaller!

Posted on Wednesday, 15 August 2018 by

Marc Illa Subiña Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Welcome back everyone! Finally, we are ready to talk about the project. Recalling what I said in my previous post, when doing lattice QCD simulations, I said that we need to “let evolve” the quarks. More precisely, we need to…

Simulating the behaviour of mutated PI3Kα with metadynamics

Posted on Tuesday, 14 August 2018 by

Pedro Santos Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello again everyone, Pedro here! Much has been going on here in Athens, as I have now delved into my project. I’m studying the effects of the E545K mutation of the PI3Kα (phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase α) protein using molecular dynamics with…

Building up a “supercomputer”

Posted on Tuesday, 14 August 2018 by

Eva Havelková Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

The official title of my project is “Parallel Computing Demonstrations on Wee ARCHIE”. One would therefore probably expect me to be spending most of my time playing around withWee Archie. For those who don’t know yet, Wee Archie is a…

Tagged with: Edinburgh, EPCC, Eva Havelkova, matfyz, PRACE, raspberry pi, SoHPC, SummerOfHPC, Wee ARCHIE

Visualizations in Bologna, CINECA – Italy

Posted on Monday, 13 August 2018 by

Nazmiye Arslan Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi from Bologna ! 🙂 It has been 5 weeks since I came to Bologna. It is a small and enjoyable city. I stay in the center of the city. CINECA, Italy’s HPC center is a bit far off the center.…

Assembling genome, one nucleotide at a time

Posted on Monday, 13 August 2018 by

Vladimir Nikolić Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

It has been a bit more than a month since my project began. Initially, the learning curve was rather steep as the project I am working on, ABySS, a bioinformatics software for assembling DNA sequences is complex and consists of…

Tagged with: bioinformatics, Ostrava, presentation, update, Vladimir Nikolic

HPC on a single-core machine. Is it possible ?

Posted on Sunday, 12 August 2018 by

Klajdi Bodurri Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello everyone! It’s been already 1 month here in Castello de la Plana, Spain for the PRACE Summer of HPC programme and one thing I have realized for sure is that the time passes really fast when you are having…

Electrons in a nanotube

Posted on Sunday, 12 August 2018 by

George Nikoulis Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

SOLID2000 is a simulation program for systems that have symmetry in three dimensions, such as crystals. The code is written mostly in FORTRAN77 and FORTRAN95. My project is to parallelize the calculation of the band structure using MPI, which is…

Tagged with: 2018, blog, Bratislava, George Nikoulis, HPC, PRACE, projects, Slovakia, Summer of HPC

A super(computing) tour

Posted on Saturday, 11 August 2018 by

Vladimir Nikolić Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

So, James and I went on a tour to visit the machines we’re working with, Salomon and Anselm supercomputers. We were guided by the IT4I institute director Branislav Jansík, and it was soon apparent he is acquainted with just about every…

Tagged with: infrastructure, Ostrava, supercomputers, tour, Vladimir Nikolic

Radiation, invisible power around you

Posted on Monday, 6 August 2018 by

Marcin Paweł Konieczny Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — 4 Comments ↓

Hello everyone ! Life is fantastic in Ljubljana. Working in the surroundings of wonderful mountains makes me feel like a hero of a fairy tale. We’ve changed the month in the calendar but I still can’t believe how fast time…

Tagged with: big-data, Clustering, HPC, Marcin Konieczny, University of Ljubljana

I’ve been interviewed!

Posted on Monday, 6 August 2018 by

Mario González Carpintero Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — 1 Comment ↓

Hello everybody! It’s already august. This summer is going by really quickly. We have already worked a lot, but there are still many things to do till the end of of this month! About myself and about Slovenia, almost nothing…

Job Scheduling Algorithms and The Open at Carnoustie

Posted on Friday, 3 August 2018 by

Conor O'Mara Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

I’m well underway into the PRACE Summer of HPC program and my project is going well. I am working with Dr. Nick Johnson (link) on the NEXTGENIO project (link). Here is an introduction to my project. HPC systems are expensive…

Studying the smallest particles with the biggest machines

Posted on Thursday, 2 August 2018 by

Marc Illa Subiña Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi everyone! Welcome back! It’s has been three weeks since we arrived in Nicosia. As an introduction to Cyprus culture, our site coordinator (shout-out to Stelios!) took us out for a meze the night we landed. I’ve never seen so many…

So what’s HPC? An overview

Posted on Monday, 30 July 2018 by

Conor O'Mara Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

So I’m over here in Edinburgh working on a project in the field of “High Performance Computing” (HPC), but what does that mean? I didn’t know what that was when I was first introduced to it a year ago, so…

Eloping for Graduation, Mother-tongues in Programming

Posted on Friday, 27 July 2018 by

Janni Harju Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Doing a summer internship might feel like skipping a well-deserved vacation after a long year at uni, but fortunately most supervisors are pretty flexible about giving us students some days off. Last week I flew back to Manchester for a…

Tagged with: 2018, C, Forschungszentrum Jülich, FORTRAN, graduation, graphene, Janni Harju, Matlab, python

High-level Visualization of Performance Data

Posted on Thursday, 26 July 2018 by

James Lowe Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi, my name is James Lowe, I am 23 years old and I was born and raised on the north-side of Dublin, Ireland. I have just this summer completed my bachelors degree in Electronic and Communications engineering at the Dublin…

Tagged with: 2018, Czech Republic, IT4Innovations, James Lowe, Ostrava, Scalasca

The Road to SoHPC

Posted on Thursday, 26 July 2018 by

Hari Prasad Radhakrishnan Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

After graduating my bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, the quest for finding the better possible version of myself began. I always had a passion for understanding the physics of objects around me. Fortunately, I found a job where I was able…

Marcin Konieczny

Posted on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 by

Marcin Paweł Konieczny Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello everyone, I am a 21 years old student at Poznań University of Technology in the field of Computer Science. In September I’m going to start my last semester of my BSc degree. In a nutshell, I’m a geography and…

Tagged with: 2018, Edinburgh, HPC, Marcin Konieczny, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana

printf(“Hello World!”);

Posted on Tuesday, 24 July 2018 by

Conor O'Mara Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Welcome to my first blog post, (Apologies as this is quite late in being posted, as I’ve had a few hectic weeks, with moving accommodation, getting started on the project and just adjusting to living here.) Enough excuses, back to…

Journey to a HPC verse by Atul Singh

Posted on Saturday, 21 July 2018 by

Atul Singh Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi, my name is Atul and I am 25 years old. I hail from India, and I am currently enrolled as a MSc student in Computational Science and Engineering at the University of Rostock, Germany. These are (and will be)…

Pedro Santos

Posted on Friday, 20 July 2018 by

Pedro Santos Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi everyone! My name is Pedro Santos, and I’m participating in the PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 programme. I’m from Coimbra, Portugal, home to one of the oldest universities in Europe (dating back to 1290), which has very rich and…

Tagged with: 2018, Edinburgh, EPCC, Greece, Pedro Santos, Portugal, projects, SoHPC, Summer of HPC

Vladimir Nikolić

Posted on Thursday, 19 July 2018 by

Vladimir Nikolić Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi, everyone, I am a student of the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade majoring in Software Engineering. The Summer of HPC programme was introduced to me by my Professor who attended it a few years ago, and who…

Tagged with: bioinformatics, czechia, IT4I, Ostrava, Vladimir Nikolic

Auld Reekie might be tricky.

Posted on Thursday, 19 July 2018 by

Eva Havelková Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello! I am Eva, a Numerical and Computational mathematics student from Prague, Czech Republic. My main field of interest is numerical linear algebra, specifically all kinds of matrix calculations. Just recently, I started to focus on discrete inverse problems as a part…

Tagged with: Edinburgh, Eva Havelkova, matfyz, PRACE, SoHPC, Summer of HPC 2018

Petteri Vainikka

Posted on Tuesday, 17 July 2018 by

Petteri Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Greetings from Athens! My name is Petteri. I am from Finland, where I am currently finishing my MSc in chemistry. I started my studies in the university of Turku in 2013, studying geology. After taking my introductory course in physical…

Tagged with: Athens, Petteri Vainikka, SoHPC

Enes Çankırı

Posted on Tuesday, 17 July 2018 by

Enes Çankırı Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

When I was a kid, we only had my brother’s computer at home. I was 5 years old and I was only allowed to play with the computer for 15-20 minutes every day. Then one day, my brother asked me…

Wojtek Laskowski

Posted on Tuesday, 17 July 2018 by

Wojciech Jacek Laskowski Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi, My name is Wojtek, I’m 25 years old and thrilled to announce that I’m spending this summer in Barcelona, Spain. Besides leaving home for 2 months for one of the most fascinating places in the world, I’ll also be…

Tagged with: barcelona, PRACE, SoHPC, Spain, Summer of HPC 2018, Wojtek Laskowski

Klajdi Bodurri

Posted on Monday, 16 July 2018 by

Klajdi Bodurri Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello fellow reader, Let me introduce myself – which is the most boring part in this post, but I promise after that it gets interesting. My name is Klajdi Bodurri and I am 23 years old. I was born in…

Starting to Summer Of HPC

Posted on Monday, 16 July 2018 by

Nazmiye Arslan Posted in PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

I am finally participating in the PRACE Summer of HPC, a programme I wanted to be part of a lot!.I followed a parallel computing course during the last semester at university and the teacher of this course shared with us…

Tagged with: 2018, CINECA, Italy, MPI, Nazmiye Arslan, SoHPC, supercomputers, visualization

The importance of being jesting by Jakub Mojsiejuk

Posted on Monday, 16 July 2018 by

Jakub Mojsiejuk Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — 1 Comment ↓

I am an Electronics and Telecommunications (i.e. Networking) undergraduate at AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland. My current research interest revolves around machine learning, Big Data architectures and spintronics. Although my background is in engineering, I hope for…

Filip Kuklis

Posted on Sunday, 15 July 2018 by

Filip Kuklis Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — 2 Comments ↓

Hi there! My name is Filip Kuklis. I am a 25-year-old IT guy and I am coming from Slovak “city of dreams” – Piestany. Piestany is also known as “Little Amsterdam” of Slovakia, because of its bikes. But for now,…

Tagged with: 2018, Amsterdam, Filip Kuklis, Netherlands, PRACE, SoHPC, Summer of HPC 2018, SURFsara

Sukhminder Singh

Posted on Friday, 13 July 2018 by

Sukhminder Singh Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Working on some C++ codes sitting in a lab at Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana, Spain, I just thought why not to break the ice and write my first blogpost to introduce myself. I am Sukhminder Singh, an…

George Nikoulis

Posted on Friday, 13 July 2018 by

George Nikoulis Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello everyone. My name is George and I am a 24 year old student from Greece studying for my Master in Computational Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During my Bachelor studies in Physics, I had a strong interest…

Ants in Groceries and First Impressions

Posted on Friday, 13 July 2018 by

Janni Harju Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Moving countries is always a bit of a hassle, even if you are only coming for a summer internship. Things can, and often will, go slightly wrong, but I don’t think it should stop anyone from signing up to new…

Tagged with: 2018, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, Janni Harju, JSC, Julich

Marius Neumann

Posted on Thursday, 12 July 2018 by

Marius Neumann Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello world! I am Marius Neumann, a 22-year old physics student from Germany. Currently I’m studying for my Master’s degree at Bielefeld University, Germany. Bielefeld is located close to the border between North Rhine Westphalia and Lower Saxony (and despite…

Tagged with: 2018, Bielefeld, Cyprus, GPUs, Lattice QCD, Marius Neumann, Nicosia, Piz Daint

Mario González Carpintero

Posted on Thursday, 12 July 2018 by

Mario González Carpintero Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hello everyone! I am writing this post from Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where my PRACE Summer of HPC project is taking place. The training week has been fabulous, but now it’s time to pack and start a new individual…

Marc Illa Subiña

Posted on Monday, 9 July 2018 by

Marc Illa Subiña Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

Hi there, my name is Marc, I’m 24 years old, and I’m in my first year of PhD at the Universitat de Barcelona, in Catalonia. I’ve done all my studies in Barcelona, starting with a Bachelor degree in Physics, then…

Tagged with: 2018, Cyprus, Marc Illa, PRACE, Summer of HPC 2018, The Cyprus Institute

Zheqi Yu

Posted on Monday, 9 July 2018 by

Zheqi Yu Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

This is a great experience, I am very honoured to participate in the PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 programme. Not only do I have access to the knowledge of high-performance parallel computing, but I have also met people and made…

Training Week at Edinburgh

Posted on Saturday, 7 July 2018 by

Janni Harju Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

“Hey, thought this might be of interest…” A one line email with a link from my supervisor this spring. The website was of course, summerofhpc.prace-ri.eu, and I did in fact, find it of interest. The opportunity to work in a…

Tagged with: 2018, ARCHER, Edinburgh, EPCC, Janni Harju, Training week, UK

Students participating in PRACE Summer of HPC 2018

Posted on Friday, 6 April 2018 by

Leon Kos Posted in Blogs 2018, PRACE Summer of HPC 2018 — No Comments ↓

The 23 projects for the Summer of HPC 2018 will start with the selected students listed at the application page. The programme will start with the training week at EPCC in Edinburgh and then continue directly at 11 PRACE hosting…

Visualising how the World’s Centre for Supercomputing Shifted over the Last Decade

Posted on Sunday, 17 September 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

1. Introduction In an age marked by data-driven knowledge, visualisation plays a major role for exploring and understanding datasets. Visualisations have an amazing ability to condense, analyse, and communicate data as if telling a story with numbers. In contrast to…

No Tenim Por

Posted on Saturday, 16 September 2017 by

Anton Lebedev Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

The candle vigil at La Rambla and Catalunya.

~ We Are Not Afraid ~ When I last wrote for this blog we were having a good time at “La Festa” – mild injuries notwithstanding. This was, as we all know by now, rudely interrupted by the terrible event…

Tagged with: Anton Lebedev, barcelona, experience, life, No tinc por

The Clusters of Supercomputers: The Top500 List in the Eyes of Machine Learning

Posted on Friday, 15 September 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

1. Introduction This summer I started to make my first steps towards the field of HPC. My participation to the SoHPC program sparked my curiosity about this field and I have become willing to learn more about the world’s most…

More results of the matric trifactorization!

Posted on Thursday, 7 September 2017 by

Jan Packhäuser Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

After two exciting months, the Summer of HPC comes to an end. However, the last few weeks have been quite intense. On the one hand, Paras and I aimed to visit as many interesting places as possible, but on the other hand…

Adéu, Barcelona.

Posted on Wednesday, 6 September 2017 by

Aleksander Wennersteen Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Well, I’m writing this from back home in Norway after a great summer in Barcelona! This time, I’ve decided not to write so much hard scientific stuff as before. For that, I refer back to my two previous posts one on…

A Recipe To Train A Machine

Posted on Wednesday, 6 September 2017 by

Shukai Wang Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hi, this is going to be my last post. I am going to introduce to you the machine learning (ML) pipeline in my project 🙂 In short, ML is a set of approaches to make data predictions using a series…

Mmh! Now THIS is a Tasty Kernel!

Posted on Wednesday, 6 September 2017 by

Antti Oskari Mikkonen Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Like all entropy-generating processes, the Summer of HPC must come to an end. However, you won’t get rid of me that easily, since there’s still one more blog post left to be done! This time I’ll tell you more about…

Unfinished creative work?

Posted on Tuesday, 5 September 2017 by

Jakub Piotr Nurski Posted in PRACE Summer of HPC 2017, Projects 2017 — No Comments ↓

Two months of this summer have passed by very fast. It is the end of my Summer of HPC project and thus the end of my adventure in Scotland. However, is it the end of this project for sure? I’m…

Tagged with: 2017, blog, EPCC, Jakub Piotr Nurski, PRACE, Scotland, Summer of HPC

The convergence between High Performance Computing and Big Data

Posted on Tuesday, 5 September 2017 by

Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

This Summer of HPC in Bratislava is coming to it’s end. A summer which has been full of adventures and amazing experiences, meeting great people and spending a lot of time working hard on the project and learning from it.…

Automated Extraction of Metadata from Climate Simulations: Project Wrap-Up

Posted on Tuesday, 5 September 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

1. Introduction As the project intensively included the processing of NetCDF datasets, this section serves as a brief background to the NetCDF format and its underlying data structure. NetCDF stands for “Network Common Data Form”. The NetCDF creators (Rew, Davis,…

Cleaning things up

Posted on Monday, 4 September 2017 by

Paras Kumar Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

The wonderful and memorable summer, like every good thing, has finally come to an end. Thus, in this post I’ll try to wrap up things with some more remarks on the project and also some interesting pictures from our visit…

Building a reliable model from just a few observations

Posted on Monday, 4 September 2017 by

Philippos Papaphilippou Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Welcome to my final blog post on the PRACE SoHPC website! First, I will show you a trick I used for building an accurate model from few data observations. Then I will introduce the video presentation that summarises my work…

Learning to track objects in 4D data

Posted on Monday, 4 September 2017 by

Alessandro Marzo Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

flowing foam sytem tomographic reconstruction animation 3D

At the time when I wrote my last blog post (check it out if you didn’t read it!) I was quite happy with the state of my Summer of HPC project “Tracing in 4D data“. I had completed the implementation…

The World of 3D Web Visualisation

Posted on Friday, 1 September 2017 by

Petr Stehlík Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

The summer in Italy is not seeming to end but my stay here does. In my last post I showcased my work which was by that time almost done. From then, the looks didn’t change much, only the underlying stuff…

Tagged with: 2017, 3D, 3D Visualization, blog, Bologna, CINECA, Czech Republic, HPC, Italy, Petr Stehlík, Web

An Interactive Visualisation to Explore the Top500 List

Posted on Thursday, 31 August 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

1. Introduction Among many definitions of visualisation, I prefer when perhaps it was ideally described as the transformation of the symbolic into the geometric (McCormick, 1987). In this sense, visualisation methods are increasingly embraced to explore, communicate, and establish our…

Tagged with: Mahmoud Elbattah, SoHPC, supercomputers, Top500, visualisation

The best of both worlds

Posted on Thursday, 31 August 2017 by

Konstantinos Koukas Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

comparison between NumPy, Cython and Cython with the OpenCL solver

Sometimes, rejecting unfeasible ideas early enough is a crucial step towards actually solving a problem. In my quest to speed up the ocean modeling framework Veros, I considered the option of restructuring the existing pure Python code in order to…

Cheers to the wee Visualization of a Well-Log correlation!

Posted on Tuesday, 29 August 2017 by

Dimitra Anevlavi Posted in PRACE Summer of HPC 2017, Projects 2017 — No Comments ↓

Greetings from Edinburgh 🙂 During the past few weeks I have been able to finalize the project task that I have been assigned and I am very very excited for that. In a nutshell, a Python based code was developed…

The end, or just another beginning?

Posted on Monday, 28 August 2017 by

Arnau Miro Jane Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

As summer ends, I can’t help but rememb Jim Morrison (The Doors) singing “this is the end, my only friend, the end…”. This post also represents an end. It is the end of my Summer of HPC project and hence…

Accelerating physics simulations with data science and vectorization

Posted on Monday, 28 August 2017 by

Philippos Papaphilippou Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Last few weeks, it has been a very interesting time here at the Jülich Supercomputing Center. Unfortunately, I only have a bit more than a week to spend on these fascinating topics with the inspiring people here at the center.…

Baptism of Fire

Posted on Monday, 21 August 2017 by

Anton Lebedev Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

~ how NOT to prepare for an adventure ~ A new beginning The morning broke, as it always does, with the ringing of the clock reminding me of the fact that I should have made the appointment with my bed…

Tagged with: Anton Lebedev, barcelona, Fire, Gracia, LaFesta, SoHPC 2017, Spain

Visualising the World Map of Supercomputers

Posted on Monday, 21 August 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 2 Comments ↓

“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.”, John Tukey. Introduction Data visualisation continues to change the way we see, interpret and understand the world around us. But it…

Tagged with: Mahmoud Elbattah, SoHPC, supercomputers, Top500, visualisation

More on Deep Q networks

Posted on Thursday, 17 August 2017 by

Aleksander Wennersteen Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

It’s time for another blog post apparently! Just as last time, I have decided to fill it with science! This time I will talk mostly about the “Deep Q Network” and the “Stochastic Gradient Descent” algorithm. These are all fairly…

El Niño around the world

Posted on Wednesday, 16 August 2017 by

Ana Maria Montero Martinez Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

In my last post, I explained what El Niño events were about. In general, El Niño events are part of a bigger oscillation pattern in the climate of Earth called ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) that changes patterns in temperature and…

Tagged with: Ana Montero Martinez, El Niño, ENSO, ICHEC, rainfall, SoHPC, Summer of HPC

CAD is BAD !!

Posted on Tuesday, 15 August 2017 by

Paras Kumar Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 1 Comment ↓

Diamond, Brilliant, Postojna, Stalgamite

Caves , Castles and CAD data extraction – these are the three key subjects of focus in this blog. Now, having spent more than a month in Ljubljana, I have been able to make some progress not only in my SoHPC…

How To Build Your Very Own Graphics Engine

Posted on Monday, 14 August 2017 by

Jamie Quinn Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Disclaimer: This post will not teach you how to build your own graphics engine. It may, however, delight and confuse you. In my previous post (which you can find here) I introduced what radiosity is along with why and how…

Tagged with: Computer Graphics, ICHEC, Jamie Quinn, PRACE, Radiosity, Summer of HPC 2017

Breaking the 4th dimensional wall of object tracking

Posted on Monday, 14 August 2017 by

Alessandro Marzo Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

My first Monday morning in Copenhagen, Konstantinos and I met the guys working at the Niels Bohr Institute and we had a very delicious breakfast together. Seriously, Danish pastries are so good I can understand why the Danes named them…

I’ve had it with these Motherlovin’ Bugs on these Motherlovin’ Multipoles!

Posted on Monday, 14 August 2017 by

Antti Oskari Mikkonen Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 4 Comments ↓

My project has reached a turning point! What I’ve now got is an Multipole2Local segment of the Fast Multipole Method written in C++ using HIP and thus it runs on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs. The next step is to…

Life of Py

Posted on Saturday, 12 August 2017 by

Konstantinos Koukas Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

August 7th 5:30 am, Copenhagen Central Station. I spent the weekend exploring the city along with my roommate Alessandro and my friend Antti, who traveled from Jülich to visit us. Among other activities, we walked the helical corridor to reach…

Shared But Hard to Use: Helping Climate Researchers Share, Discover, and Use Data

Posted on Saturday, 12 August 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

1. The Problem Sharing data among researchers is usually an afterthought. In our case, data is already shared publicly on a data repository, which is called DSpace. DSpace serves as an open-access repository for scholarly data published in various scientific…

Exploring Edinburgh, Python coding and many more

Posted on Friday, 11 August 2017 by

Dimitra Anevlavi Posted in PRACE Summer of HPC 2017, Projects 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hello everyone, Greetings from Edinburgh’s sunny festival season 🙂 During the past few weeks I have been both exploring this vibrant city and cultivating my Python programming skills. I will give you more details about how my work has been…

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Quality measure comparison of Slovenian landscape and iterative methods

Posted on Friday, 11 August 2017 by

Jan Packhäuser Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Since in the last entry I promised that I am going to talk about the comparison between the fixed point method and the projected gradient method I will dwell on this. But first of all, let me show you some of…

Tagged with: 2017, HPC, Jan Packhäuser, Slovenia, SoHPC, University of Ljubljana

Which is the busiest node in the HPC cluster

Posted on Friday, 11 August 2017 by

Shukai Wang Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

What is a high-performance computer (HPC)? In simple terms, nowadays it is a cluster of innumerous ‘mini’ computers (nodes) interlinked by the same network. When a big calculation is submitted to the HPC, it will be fragmented into thousands of…

It’s Alive!

Posted on Friday, 11 August 2017 by

Petr Stehlík Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

In my previous post it was all just dry theory and nothing to show (apart from a great food picture). Today the post will only be about presenting the “cool stuff”, and for that, just for you guys, my buddy…

Tagged with: 2017, 3D, 3D model, 3D Visualization, blender, CINECA, Italy, Petr Stehlík, SoHPC, visualization, Web

Bridging the gap between High Performance Computing and Big Data

Posted on Thursday, 10 August 2017 by

Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

In today’s blog post, I’ll talk about the successful (yaaaay!) progress of my project with a technical point of view. So if you are into Computer Science, I’m sure you will find this interesting! This post will be structured using…

That’s hot

Posted on Thursday, 10 August 2017 by

Edwige Pezzulli Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Over the past decades, the planet has been experiencing worldwide climate change. In particular, the global warming process is characterized by drastic weather events, such as long periods of drought, or short intense precipitation. These can crucially affect vegetation and…

The triple P conundrum

Posted on Tuesday, 8 August 2017 by

Arnau Miro Jane Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Pasta, pizza and ParaView are the topics I want to talk about in this post. As a Catalan guy, I’m used to the Mediterranean diet and it is impossible for me not to talk about food when staying in Italy.…

Can you put bones in a blender?

Posted on Friday, 4 August 2017 by

David John Bourke Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 1 Comment ↓

In my previous post I mentioned that a team at IT4Innovations developed an interesting Plugin for Blender which is useful for processing Computed Tomography (CT) images. In this post, I will briefly discuss how this tool makes it extremely easy…

Tagged with: blender, David John Bourke, DICOM, HPC, IT4I, IT4Innovations

PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Training Week

Posted on Thursday, 3 August 2017 by

Stelios Erotokritou Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Most Summer of HPC participants arrived in Ostrava on Sunday. For them, an adventure that will see them away from home, friends and family for a period of two months had just began. But this adventure would see them working…

Tagged with: 2017, HPC, IT4Innovations, MPI, openmp, participants, PRACE, SoHPC, visualization

The Case of the Missing Device Function

Posted on Wednesday, 2 August 2017 by

Antti Oskari Mikkonen Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 2 Comments ↓

It's me, browsing my Magic: the Gathering collection.

My project has been progressing quite well and a bit more of that in the next blog post. However, this time I present a more detailed description of the beginning of my project. The narrative may have been dramatized in…

Accelerating iterative solvers by chance

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

Anton Lebedev Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

The project I have laid my hands on goes under the fancy title of Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for Matrix Computation on P100 GPUs Now most will understand the ending, but not the beginning of the above. Thus I’ll endeavor…

Beats of Bratislava

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

Andreas Neophytou Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

First Impressions Here we go, my second official blog post (does this mean I can add blog writing to the skills section of my CV?). I think I’m starting to get the hang of this blog writing stuff (I’d appreciate…

My journey to the summer of HPC

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

Shukai Wang Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

—May all your dreams blossom ✿ Friends, are you considering applying for the PRACE Summer of HPC program but are concerned that you might not have the relevant experience? Are you worried that your programming skills are not good enough…

Vectorization and The eye of Jülich

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

Philippos Papaphilippou Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hello, with this post I would like to give an update about my project and other interesting activities. My current progress is mainly related to exercises for using vectorization and the Xeon Phi co-processors and therefore it would better to…

Collect-Organise-Visualise: A Visualisation Dashboard for Fostering the Exploration of Climate Data

Posted on Friday, 28 July 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Visualisation is realising a growing recognition as a pivotal part of the data analysis process. As the title suggests, the project aims to avail data visualisation to help the climate research community answer or discover interesting questions about the field.…

Discovering the secrets of El Niño

Posted on Friday, 28 July 2017 by

Ana Maria Montero Martinez Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major climate pattern that consists of oscillations of the meteorological parameters in the equatorial Pacific ocean. It happens every 2 to 7 years but it is not periodically stable. What is ENSO? Normal weather…

Make it simple but significant – HPC usage visualisation

Posted on Thursday, 27 July 2017 by

Jakub Piotr Nurski Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Almost two weeks have passed since my first visit to EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. I met my mentor in the first week and we’ve started working on my project from the first minute of our meeting. A little…

Tagged with: ARCHER, EPCC, infographic, Jakub Piotr Nurski, visualisation

Introduction: Trifactorization in Ljubljana

Posted on Thursday, 27 July 2017 by

Jan Packhäuser Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

After an exciting training week in Ostrava, Paras and I had probably the most convenient travel possibility to our site because Leon brought us to Ljubljana by car. On the way, we made a small detour to listen to a concert…

Tagged with: 2017, HPC, Jan Packhäuser, PRACE, Slovenia, SoHPC, University of Ljubljana

The Sweet Sweet Sounds of Radio-City

Posted on Thursday, 27 July 2017 by

Jamie Quinn Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Be it in films, visual arts or computer games, photorealistic rendering of a virtual scene has been a hot topic for decades. The ultimate aim of my project is to create a photorealistic render of a simple scene like the…

Tagged with: Computer Graphics, Dublin, Fiddle, ICHEC, Ireland, Jamie Quinn, music, Radiosity, Rendering

Full speed ahead – Accelerating ocean simulations

Posted on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 by

Konstantinos Koukas Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Coastal wave propagation Atlantic veros ocean simulation

How will Earth’s climate change in the next century? This is the kind of questions climate researchers ask themselves and the reason they develop global climate models. These are used to simulate conditions over long periods of time and under…

PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Participants

Posted on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 by

Stelios Erotokritou Posted in Participants 2017 — No Comments ↓

Mr. Anton Lebedev, Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for Matrix Computation on P100 GPUs, BSC, Barcelona, Spain Mr. Aleksander Wennersteen, Monte Carlo and Deep Learning Methods for Enhancing Crowd Simulation, BSC, Barcelona, Spain Mr. Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga, Apache Spark: Are Big…

Adding a new dimension to object tracking

Posted on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 by

Alessandro Marzo Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

point tracking, optical flow, lucas kanade

If you read my presentation blog post and you have come here expecting to see some nice visualizations about dying blowflies, then keep reading as I have a little surprise for you. As you may already know, my project is…

Letting things ‘flow’

Posted on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 by

Paras Kumar Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 3 Comments ↓

After the stimulating training week at IT4Innovations, Ostrava we (me, Jan and our site supervisor Dr. Leon Kos) set forth on a long, exhausting but finally much rewarding drive towards Slovenia. Special thanks to Leon, as I got the opportunity…

Haggis actually isn’t half bad…

Posted on Tuesday, 25 July 2017 by

Sam Green Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

The Summer of HPC 2017 training week has long since passed and we have all started our projects in our respective countries. It has been about 2 weeks since we landed in Edinburgh and within that time I think I…

Tagged with: 2017, Edinburgh, EPCC, HPC, MPI, openmp, PRACE, projects, Sam Green, SoHPC, Summer of HPC, supercomputers, UK

# Machine-Learning in Python for Well Log Correlation

Posted on Tuesday, 25 July 2017 by

Dimitra Anevlavi Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 1 Comment ↓

# import Cup_Of_Tea as English_Tea # import Blog_Post as Introduction # Hello everyone 🙂 I am currently in Edinburgh, home of the biggest celebration of arts and culture on the planet, and of course I am referring to the famous…

A first glance of Bratislava

Posted on Tuesday, 25 July 2017 by

Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

It’s been more than a week since the Summer of HPC program began, and these days have been quite interesting, getting to know members of the Computing Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and finding out more details about…

The HIPbit, or There and Back Again

Posted on Monday, 24 July 2017 by

Antti Oskari Mikkonen Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 6 Comments ↓

Forschungszentrum Jülich is quite an interesting place to work at. You can think of it as a town in the middle of nowhere where over the half of the population are scientists or technicians. The research center even has its…

Artificial Brains for enhancing Crowd Simulations?!

Posted on Monday, 24 July 2017 by

Aleksander Wennersteen Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

A visualisation of a biological neural network.

Hi all, In my previous post I introduced myself and the SoHPC programme. Now it’s time for my project. Why Crowd Simulation? Throughout history, humankind has had a clear preference for grouping together in larger and larger groups. On the global scale, 54…

Under the spell of Athena (and Jupiter)

Posted on Monday, 24 July 2017 by

Edwige Pezzulli Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

It was a very very long trip, which began on Sunday at 2 p.m. and ended on Monday at 11 pm (with a 15-hours stopover in Milan), but finally, I landed in Athens! Since first sight from the plane, I understood this was…

Visualising Human Skeletal Motion

Posted on Sunday, 23 July 2017 by

David John Bourke Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 1 Comment ↓

In a nutshell, the objective of my project this summer is to develop a visualisation of real human skeletal motion based on motion capture. I will be working at IT4Innovations, the Czech national Supercomputing Center in Ostrava, where the Salomon…

When Big Data Becomes Too Big

Posted on Sunday, 23 July 2017 by

Petr Stehlík Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

As a guy from Central Europe, upon arriving to Bologna my first reaction wasn’t subtle: “Damn, it’s hot!”. After two weeks of getting used to the weather, I can say that I am still boiling. I will return to temperatures…

Tagged with: 2017, blender, Bologna, CINECA, Czech Republic, Galileo, Italy, Petr Stehlík, PRACE, visualization, Web

Getting around CINECA – The beginning of web visualization.

Posted on Sunday, 23 July 2017 by

Arnau Miro Jane Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

“It was a warm summer evening in Ancient Greece…” says Sheldon Cooper when trying to teach some Physics to Penny. My story for the next two months, which I am going to explain in this blog, starts in a similar…

Forest Road, take me to the Summer of HPC…

Posted on Thursday, 20 July 2017 by

Shukai Wang Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

It has been one and a half weeks since the PRACE Summer of HPC program has begun. I have settled here very well, having a quick run in the forest just before breakfast, enjoying the singing of the birds, working on the…

Jakub Nurski

Posted on Monday, 17 July 2017 by

Jakub Piotr Nurski Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Jakub Nurski on the summit of Sněžka, Czech Republic.

My name is Jakub Nurski. I am an ambitious B.Eng student of Computer Science in Poznan University of Technology in Poland. I also work there for a small start-up that provides innovative software for photovoltaic companies. Bringing green energy to…

Paras Kumar

Posted on Monday, 17 July 2017 by

Paras Kumar Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 5 Comments ↓

Ljubljana, Triple Bridge, Ljubljanica, Slovenia

Hello Readers, as might be suggested by the title of this post, here I’ll try to introduce myself and also give a glimpse of what this amazing experience called the PRACE Summer of HPC program probably has in store for…

Philippos Papaphilippou

Posted on Sunday, 16 July 2017 by

Philippos Papaphilippou Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 2 Comments ↓

Welcome to the PRACE Summer of HPC website! My name is Philippos and I am one of the current participants. I have done my Bachelor in Computer Science at the University of Cyprus and my Master in Advanced Computer Science…

Edwige Pezzulli

Posted on Sunday, 16 July 2017 by

Edwige Pezzulli Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

My name is Edwige Pezzulli, I am a girl coming from the Eternal City – Rome, where I live with my wonderful dog, Moja. Currently, I am finishing my Ph.D. in Astrophysics at University La Sapienza. During my studies, I visited…

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Mahmoud Elbattah

Posted on Sunday, 16 July 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hi, My name is Mahmoud, originally from Egypt, and currently a PhD student at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). I have been enjoying my time very much in Ireland. I love the vibrant campus of NUIG, and the…

Anton Lebedev

Posted on Saturday, 15 July 2017 by

Anton Lebedev Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

“A typical German guy”. That is me, Anton Lebedev, according to my co-conspirator Aleksander Wennersteen, who will be joining me at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Spain to work in the domain of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU)…

Tagged with: 2017, Anton Lebedev, BSC, gpgpu, nvidia, participants, SoHPC

Jan Packhäuser

Posted on Saturday, 15 July 2017 by

Jan Packhäuser Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hi, my name is Jan Packhäuser, and I am a 23 year old student from Germany. I was born and raised in a small Bavarian town called Miltenberg which is located close to the border of the federal states Baden…

Tagged with: 2017, Jan Packhäuser, MPI, openmp, Slovenia, SoHPC, University of Ljubljana

Aleksander Wennersteen

Posted on Saturday, 15 July 2017 by

Aleksander Wennersteen Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

You’re like a magical giant -Dimitra I’m 23 years old and in my third year of the five year MPhys in Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. This summer, I will be participating in the Summer of HPC, based…

Jamie Quinn

Posted on Friday, 14 July 2017 by

Jamie Quinn Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Awright troops, my name’s Jamie and I’ve been from Glasgow my entire life. Currently I’m doing my PhD at the University of Glasgow, researching the way viscosity in the solar atmosphere interacts with the magnetic field there. As part of…

Tagged with: art, HPC, Jamie Quinn, music, phd, science, scottish

Dimitra Anevlavi

Posted on Friday, 14 July 2017 by

Dimitra Anevlavi Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hello World.f95, my name is Dimitra Anevlavi and I am from Greece. I am 22 very proud years old 🙂 and I am currently in my 4th year of studies in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the National Technical…

Tagged with: 2017, Dimitra Anevlavi, Edinburgh, EPCC, participants, SoHPC

Andreas Neophytou

Posted on Friday, 14 July 2017 by

Andreas Neophytou Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 3 Comments ↓

Awkward Introductions So, I’m supposed to write a blog about myself and my project during the summer. I have no idea what to type and I suddenly feel a real kinship with this dog. Truthfully, I’d much rather hear about…

Sam Green

Posted on Friday, 14 July 2017 by

Sam Green Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hi, my name is Sam Green and I’m from a small city called Waterford in the South of Ireland. I grew up in the countryside surrounding the city (technically Kilkenny countryside but lets not get into those sort of details)…

Alessandro Marzo

Posted on Thursday, 13 July 2017 by

Alessandro Marzo Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

My name is Alessandro Marzo and I’m from Pesaro, Italy. If you never heard if it, just know that it is famous for two things: 1) it is the birthplace of the famous Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini and 2) it’s…

Konstantinos Koukas

Posted on Thursday, 13 July 2017 by

Konstantinos Koukas Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

My name is Konstantinos Koukas and I am a 22 years old student from Athens, Greece. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens. I plan…

Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga

Posted on Thursday, 13 July 2017 by

Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Summer of HPC PRACE Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga

Hello there, my name is Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga and I’m a 21 years old guy from Valencia (the home of the Paella!), but I come from the beautiful island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. This is where I just…

Antti Mikkonen

Posted on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 by

Antti Oskari Mikkonen Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Greetings from the far north! My name is Antti and I like all sorts of things mathematical. There’s just something very savoury about a well-structured, intuitive and dumbfounding mathematical proof. Basically, I like to look for problems and solve them.…

Shukai Wang

Posted on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 by

Shukai Wang Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — 1 Comment ↓

Hi everyone! I am Shukai Wang, a Chinese girl from a very very very beautiful city, called Hangzhou (you should visit!), I have spent my past 7 years in the UK but I am now following the two-month PRACE Summer of HPC program…

David Bourke

Posted on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 by

David John Bourke Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

My name is David Bourke, and I am a Computer Engineering student studying for my integrated Masters degree in Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Before coming to TCD, I completed a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering at the Dublin…

Arnau Miró

Posted on Tuesday, 11 July 2017 by

Arnau Miro Jane Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hello everyone! My name is Arnau Miró. I am a 27 year old PhD student from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. I am currently located in a very nice city in Spain called Terrassa, which is about 30 km away from…

Petr Stehlík

Posted on Tuesday, 11 July 2017 by

Petr Stehlík Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Ahoj! My name is Petr and I come from a magical land of beer – Czech Republic. I live and study in Brno, the second largest city, sometimes called the Silicon Valley of central Europe. Last spring I finished my…

Ana Maria Montero Martinez

Posted on Tuesday, 11 July 2017 by

Ana Maria Montero Martinez Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 — No Comments ↓

Hello world! My name is Ana María Montero and I am a 23 years old Physics student. I am from Spain and I come from a nice town close to the border with Portugal called Badajoz, where I also study.…

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