In this case study, we hear from Professor Andrew Morris (School of Metallurgy and Materials), whose research group has been making use of BEAR Cloud to aid discovery. My research group predicts the crystal structure of materials. Experimental discovery of new functional materials can be slow, difficult and expensive. Computational Structure Prediction allows us to … Continue reading “Crystal structures in the BEAR Cloud”
Month: December 2022
Measuring Brexit Uncertainty: A Machine Learning and Textual Analysis Approach
Duiyi Dai (Claire), a PhD student from the Department of Economics, describes below how BlueBEAR is essential for her research into quantifying Brexit uncertainty, reducing the time spent running her analysis from two months on her own device to just one day! What is your research about? The term “Brexit” was first used in May … Continue reading “Measuring Brexit Uncertainty: A Machine Learning and Textual Analysis Approach”
High-resolution medical scans & Baskerville
In this case study, we hear from Xi Jia, who is doing a Ph.D. in the School of Computer Science. Xi has been making use of BEAR’s Baskerville GPU cluster to dramatically reduce the time it takes to train deep-learning models for medical image registration. I am a fourth-year PhD student, from the School of … Continue reading “High-resolution medical scans & Baskerville”
The saving grace ( well on Git )
In this case study, we hear from Dr Catherine Smith, a Research Fellow and Technical Officer in the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE), who has been making use of BEAR’s code management platform, BEAR GitLab, to enable her to support researchers using online editing tools to transcribe texts. At that time the … Continue reading “The saving grace ( well on Git )”
Graduate Systems Engineer vacancy at UoB
If you want to make a difference and are fascinated by how technology works, come and join a leading team responsible for supercomputing and allied services at the University of Birmingham! The Advanced Research Computing (or BEAR) team is looking for a graduate (recently graduated or in final year of study) to grow into a … Continue reading “Graduate Systems Engineer vacancy at UoB”