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I have to say that this is my unconditional favourite “meme” of the year so far because of its relatability. Even though we can probably all say we feel a bit guilty laughing at disaster, sometimes its sheer magnitude, and …

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Who am I? Hello! My name is Oliver Legg, I’m 22 years old and I’m from Cheshire, England. I recently graduated from the University of Liverpool with a first-class honours degree in Computer Science /w Software Development. Other than being …

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Hello World! My name is Jenay Patel and I am thrilled to be part of this year’s PRACE Summer of HPC (SoHPC). More specifically, I am super excited to get involved with my project, focusing on molecular dynamics on quantum …

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Hello everyone, my name is Sepideh Shamsizadeh; I’m 29 years old and come from Iran. I am studying for my master’s in computer engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, at the University of Padova.This semester, I had a course on big …

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Hi everyone! My name is Carola and I’m a physicist! I come from Italy and I’m a master degree student of condensed matter physics at Università degli studi dell’Aquila. Something about me: I love eating (yes I know, I’m really …

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Hello to everyone! My name is María Menéndez Herrero. This is my first post and in it I’m going to make a brief introduction about who I am and what paths have brought me to this project that I’m going …

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Who even is this guy?? Hello! The person writing this is Brian O’Sullivan, that would probably be a good place to start. (That’s me in the photo!) I am 21 years old and recently graduated out of the National University …

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Summer of HPC is a PRACE programme that offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe to late-stage undergraduate and master’s students. Up to 66 top applicants from across Europe will be selected to participate in pairs on 33 projects …

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Project reference: 2125 A reasonable part of the data analytics and statistical modelling community relies on the Stan language and software to implement particular models based on Bayesian approaches. This language allows users to specify stochastic models that are then …

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Project reference: 2124 The focus of this project will be on  enhancing further hybrid (e.g. stochastic/ deterministic) methods for Linear Algebra using advanced AI approaches to accelerate the computations. The focus is on Monte Carlo  hybrid methods and algorithms for …

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Project reference: 2129 The main objective of this SoHPC project is to test how our existing code for energy consumption prediction scales from a local server to supercomputer. We have developed Python and R scripts to retrieve data, store it …

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Project reference: 2117 Geographic information science and remote sensing deal with data that are unique in the sense that they carry spatial information with them. Unlike other data, geospatial data possesses a unique footprint on the surface of the earth …

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Project reference: 2116 In this project, students will develop an efficient parallel algorithm for determining good upper bounds, if not the exact value, of a quantity called treewidth for arbitrary graphs. While computing the treewidth of an arbitrary graph is …

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Project reference: 2131 CFD is solving time dependent partial differential equations (PDE) and PDE is solved by numerical approximation. Which brings the system of equations (matrices and vectors) that need to be solved either by direct or indirect solvers. These …

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Project reference: 2133 While High-Performance Computing (HPC) traditionally focuses on compute-intensive tasks, Big Data frameworks are more focused on data-intensive tasks. Our project aims at investigating the intersection of HPC and Big Data on the basis of case studies arising …

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Project reference: 2132 Molecular surfaces have tremendous predictive power in terms of evaluating the interaction with potential binding partners, e.g. small molecules, drugs, biochemical ligands, antibodies, signaling molecules and many more. Consequently, an efficient method to produce such molecular surfaces …

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Project reference: 2130 In recent years there has been a massive development in the high-performance computing architecture. More precisely, almost all the supercomputers are having the accelerators such as GPUs. On the other hand, there is a big question rising …

Designing Scientific Applications on GPUs Read More »

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Project reference: 2128 S-gears are a specific variant of cylindrical gears with a modified tooth profile geometry that can, in several aspects, provide superior performance to more traditionally used involute or cycloid gears.  This type of gears has in the …

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Project reference: 2127 In the current times of ever-growing data, cross-site collaboration, and evolving new data processing techniques; moving to the cloud to carry out scientific research is becoming a commodity. With that shift, however, keeping track of where your …

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Project reference: 2126 This project consists in benchmarking computational chemistry applications in the Dutch National supercomputer. The goal of this project is to get acquainted with different relevant software for scientific simulations and be able to analyse and describe the …

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