Hi there, summer of High-performance computing has finally kicked off at CINECA, in Bologna, with the training week. Despite the high temperatures, we have been working quite hard, but hopefully, it will pay-off later. Useless to mention, everybody is super …
Hi. My name is Sean, I’m 22 years old and I’m currently in Bologna for the training week of the Summer of HPC programme run by PRACE. I’ve just finished my undergraduate degree in Theoretical Physics at Trinity College Dublin. …
Episode 1: Meeting amazing people, admiring nature and eating pizzas. Ciao, Hello, Salut, Hallo, Hola, γεια σας, Merhaba, Zdravo, Szia!* My name is Thizirie. I am from Algeria and I am studying in the baguette, fromage (cheese) and wine country, …
Hi Summer-of-HPC-website-reader, I’m Benjamin from Regensburg in Germany. I started studying physics in 2013, and I really loved it (and still love it). But somehow during my master I realized, that even more than the pure physics, the programming and …
Hello dear passengers, greetings from the beautiful city of Bologna! I will be your guide along the SoHPC 2019 journey with my topic “Hybrid Monte Carlo/Deep Learning Methods for Matrix Computation on Advanced Architectures” at the STFC Hartree Centre, Daresbury, …
Hi everyone! My name is Pablo Lluch and I was born and raised in the hot and sunny south of Spain. However, I go to university in Edinburgh, UK where I’m doing my bachelors in Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. …
Hi everyone, My name is Andreas, I am 22 years old and I am from Cyprus. I am studying Mechanical engineering at Nottingham University in a 4-year course (MEng) and I have currently finished my third year of studies. During …
Introduction :: Who am I?Hello World, I am Li Juan Chan. I am currently a fourth year mechanical engineering student from the University of Manchester. You might be wondering how a mechanical engineering student ended up in a HPC research …
Hi! I am Jordy Ajanohoun, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Engineering Student. Welcome to my blog ! I am a 22 years old french student in the last year over 5 of my Master of Engineering program at Sorbonne University …
Irén is a chemistry student from Budapest. She has just finished her masters at Eötvös Loránd University, and would like to continue her studies at the Hevesy György PhD School of Chemistry. Her field is theoretical chemistry and she wrote …
Hi all! I’m Allison, and I have the great pleasure of being one of the participants in the 2019 Summer of HPC Program. I am Canadian born, Australian raised, and I have just finished studying in Spain. My professional background …
Hello! My name is Perry, hailing from Glasgow, Scotland. I’ve just completed my first degree, an MInf in Informatics, at The University of Edinburgh. For my summer of HPC, I will be working at the BSC, Barcelona. I’m curious about …
Hi all! My name is David Izquierdo and I am 21 years old. I am from Sabiñánigo, a little town in the north of Spain, and I will be soon finishing my bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in the University …
Hello from Bologna! My name is Beckie Lait, I am 21 years old and I have just started my PRACE Summer of HPC journey! I have been looking forward to this opportuity for so long and I am so pleased …
Hey everyone, I’m Kara, studying Computer Science in Bonn, Germany. While at university I mostly lean towards courses on IT Security topics, I am excited to work in HPC this summer. Starting next week, I will be in Amsterdam figuring …
Project reference: 1921 Ecologists studying animal movement require integrating multiple kinds of data coming from different sources. In particular, at SURFsara we are helping ornithologists to work with a new stream of radar data. Where the researchers are used to …
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Project reference: 1909 One of the grand challenges of HPC is providing programming tools that enable the programmer to write parallel codes capable of scaling to hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of cores. Task-based programming models are seen as …
Project reference: 1920 There is an increasing demand for processing confidential data, such as the genetic makeup of humans, personal data, and data that, if leaked or modified, could have serious legal consequences. Normally, supercomputers and clusters are shared by …
Project reference: 1911 The advent of technological advances in the field of computer-aided drug design has streamlined the drug design process, making it more cost- and time-efficient. One of the most important tasks in the lead optimization phase of the …
Project reference: 1910 High-Performance Computing has lately enabled multimillion atom simulations in nanoscale systems. In this project, we will simulate KRAS, a protein, which is mutated in 70% of human cancers in contact with a model cell membrane. The goal …
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