Accelerating iterative solvers by chance

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: Anton Lebedev, barcelona, basic research, BSC-CNS, chance, gpgpu, High Performance Computing, mathematics, SoHPC 2017

Beats of Bratislava

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

Andreas Neophytou — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, Andreas Neophytou, Bratislava, Computing Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, MPI, Nanotubes, PRACE, Slovakia, SoHPC, supercomputers

My journey to the summer of HPC

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

Shukai Wang — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, blog, Czech Republic, HPC, IT4I, IT4Innovations, PRACE, Schengen, Shukai Wang, SoHPC, sponsorship, Summer of HPC, visa

Vectorization and The eye of Jülich

Posted on Saturday, 29 July 2017 by

Philippos Papaphilippou — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: Forschungszentrum Jülich, icc, JSC, Philippos Papaphilippou, raspberry pi, timelapse, vectorization, Φίλιππος Παπαφιλίππου

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

Posted on Friday, 28 July 2017 by

Mahmoud Elbattah — 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.…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Bokeh, Climate Research, Greece, grnet, Mahmoud Elbattah, python, SoHPC, visualization

Discovering the secrets of El Niño

Posted on Friday, 28 July 2017 by

Ana Maria Montero Martinez — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: Ana Maria Montero Martinez, Dublin, El Niño, ENSO, ICHEC, Southern Oscillation, Summer of HPC 2017, SummerOfHPC

Make it simple but significant – HPC usage visualisation

Posted on Thursday, 27 July 2017 by

Jakub Piotr Nurski — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: ARCHER, EPCC, infographic, Jakub Piotr Nurski, visualisation

Introduction: Trifactorization in Ljubljana

Posted on Thursday, 27 July 2017 by

Jan Packhäuser — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 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 — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 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 — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: Bohrium, climate, computer simulation, copenhagen, cuda, denmark, Konstantinos Koukas, Niels Bohr Institute, ocean, opencl, openmp, PRACE, SoHPC, SoHPC 2017, Summer of HPC, Summer of HPC 2017, UCPH, Veros, xeon phi

PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Participants

Posted on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 by

Stelios Erotokritou — 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…

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Adding a new dimension to object tracking

Posted on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 by

Alessandro Marzo — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, 4D data, Alessandro Marzo, copenhagen, denmark, Italy, Niels Bohr Institute, PRACE, SoHPC 2017, Summer of HPC, Summer of HPC 2017, tracing, UCHP

Letting things ‘flow’

Posted on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 by

Paras Kumar — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, blog, CFD, OpenCASCADE, Paras Kumar, python, PythonOCC, Slovenia, SoHPC, University of Ljubljana

Haggis actually isn’t half bad…

Posted on Tuesday, 25 July 2017 by

Sam Green — 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…

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

# 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…

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A first glance of Bratislava

Posted on Tuesday, 25 July 2017 by

Adrián Rodríguez Bazaga — 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…

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The HIPbit, or There and Back Again

Posted on Monday, 24 July 2017 by

Antti Oskari Mikkonen — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: Antti Oskari Mikkonen, C, cuda, excessive coffee usage, FMM, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, good times, gpgpu, gpu, Half-Life, HIP, JSC, Lord of the Rings, SoHPC, walking

Artificial Brains for enhancing Crowd Simulations?!

Posted on Monday, 24 July 2017 by

Aleksander Wennersteen — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, AI, Aleksander Wennersteen, barcelona, BSC, Deep Learning, Magical Giants, Monte Carlo, Neural Networks, projects, SoHPC, SoHPC 2017, Spain

Under the spell of Athena (and Jupiter)

Posted on Monday, 24 July 2017 by

Edwige Pezzulli — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: ARIS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Athens, climate data, Edwige Pezzulli, Greece, grnet, SoHPC, visualization

Visualising Human Skeletal Motion

Posted on Sunday, 23 July 2017 by

David John Bourke — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: blender, cluster, Czech Republic, David John Bourke, DICOM, High Performance Computing, HPC, image segmentation, inverse kinematics, IT4Innovations, k-means, kinect, machine learning, openmp, Parallelization, PRACE, salomon cluster, segmentation, SoHPC, Summer of HPC, unsupervised machine learning, visualization, xeon phi

When Big Data Becomes Too Big

Posted on Sunday, 23 July 2017 by

Petr Stehlík — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 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 — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, 3D Visualization, Arnau Miro Jane, blender, blog, CINECA, OGS, ParaView, PRACE, projects, SoHPC, Summer of HPC, supercomputers, visualization, Web

Forest Road, take me to the Summer of HPC…

Posted on Thursday, 20 July 2017 by

Shukai Wang — 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…

Posted in Blogs 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, blog, Czech Republic, IT4I, IT4Innovations, Ostrava, P, Shukai Wang, Summer of HPC, visualization

Jakub Nurski

Posted on Monday, 17 July 2017 by

Jakub Piotr Nurski — 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…

Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, Jakub Piotr Nurski, participants, Scotland, SoHPC, University of Edinburgh

Paras Kumar

Posted on Monday, 17 July 2017 by

Paras Kumar — 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…

Posted in Participants 2017, PRACE Summer of HPC 2017 Tagged with: 2017, CFD, OpenFOAM, Paras Kumar, participants, Slovenia, Summer of HPC, University of Ljubljana