Data lake is a storage of large quantities of data that has little to no structure. It combines data from different sources that were originally not intended to be a part of a bigger monitoring infrastructure. In the case of …

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[Video] Hi from Dublin everybody! Welcome back to my blog or welcome for newcomers. If you have missed it, my previous blog post is available here! No worries, there is no need to read it before this one to understand …

Read this if you want your computer to run your applications faster [Difficulty: Easy] Read More »

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To be honest, this post should have been written before the previous one. But as they say, better late than never. If the previous post consisted of describing the theoretical principles behind an aerodynamics simulation, this one is going to …

How do you use a supercomputer? Read More »

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So… Remember the test environment setup I was working on last time? I had to drop it last week. The PCOCC installation took me some time and a lot of patience, but it did run through at the end. Unfortunately, …

Change of plans Read More »

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Of course not, but I have input for benzene and I did the first tests of the electron density computation on this system. Before showing the results (Pretty figures!), I would like to tell you about the helical symmetry (something …

Is benzene a nanotube? Read More »

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This week, I show how I created animations for collective communications and moved them to Wee Archie (with videos) and introduce the wave simulator. I’ll talk about issues with my system on Wee Archie and how this will affect my goals going forwards. Make sure not to miss the cute …

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I spent the first few weeks at Computing Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences getting familiar with the nanotube code. We actually changed the goal of the project a bit. The original plan was the further development of the …

Nanotube-laboratory in a computer Read More »

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In my previous blog post, I discussed the advantages of containerisation when it comes to reproducibility. In short, if you package all of the tools necessary to run your experiments, you can ensure that in future, folk can rerun your …

Can’t `$ touch this`: Containerisation on permissioned HPC systems using Singularity Read More »

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Dear reader, I know it has been only a few days since my last post, and I am also aware that you are not used to listening (or maybe reading!) from me so often. However here, at BSC, we are …

No internet? Let the game begin Read More »

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Hello everyone, The summer of HPC program is a nice way to discover new countries and place, and before talking a bit more about my actual work here in the next blog post I would introduce you to Jülich and …

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As promised, this is the picture of the house I am living in right now. Pretty good, right? Not as good as it seems though as I do not have air-conditioner in the house!!! I have to live in the …

What Is Going On?? Read More »

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A month has passed since my stay in IT4Innovations started. Apart from working on my project, which I will comment on below, I’ve been spending my weekends exploring Ostrava and some nearby cities.The first weekend started with a bang at …

Deep emotion recognition Read More »

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0 Setup Picture this.It’s 7 a.m. in the morning. Nobody speaks. You just woke up. You unpleasantly turn the lights on. You do your personal hygiene and other morning routines.You sit in kitchen, prepare breakfast, make coffee and pour milk …

Sun, milk and forests. Making the party go on Read More »

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Hello from Luxembourg. If you read my previous post, you may be aware that this is where I’ll be spending my summer as part of the PRACE Summer of HPC programme. The official title for the project I’ll be doing …

How to know if your Deep Learning Algorithm actually learned anything Read More »

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It was only recently that I realized this experience called SoHPC is already midway through and since it has been almost an entire month that I have been silent I decided to drop a few lines in order to give …

We arrived at BSC; now what? Read More »

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Greetings dear audience. Sorry that I’ve been a little radio-silent over the last week. I guess you could say I dropped off the radar. Read on for another riveting installation of ‘Allison’s summer of HPC’. It’s hard to believe, but …

Removing the data processing ‘bird’en with Spark Read More »

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During my first three weeks at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) the material was mainly introductory to many different and interesting topics. I was firstly introduced to the topic of processors. I got myself familiar with the main architecture and …

Understanding the basic principles Read More »

With my second week ending here at SURFsara, I’ve learned quite a bit about the background of my project and those insights have been very interesting, so I thought I’d share them with you! On a usual supercomputer, networks and …

Building a supercomputer in a cloud Read More »

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Much has happened since my previous post ( https://summerofhpc.prace-ri.eu/davide-di-giusto/ ) and I have been quite overwhelmed. Finally, I have found some time to evaluate the last two weeks and share my experience with you. The STFC-Hartree centre is my new …

Brief introduction​: STFC Hartree. Read More »

Let’s go back, way back… The year is 2014. Pharrell Williams’ Happy is number 1 on the charts, and a former Etonian is Prime Minister of the UK. The motivating paper for my project is released: Toward the efficient use …

Dusting off some gold Read More »

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