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”
Author: Aslam Ghumra
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 )”
Predicting weather impacts using GPU-accelerated high-performance computing
You may not be aware, but all researchers at the University of Birmingham can request access to our Tier-2 (national) supercomputer, Baskerville. Dr Xilin Xia from the School of Civil Engineering describes below how Baskerville is essential for his research into predicting flooding… What is your research about? Due to Climate Change, we are seeing … Continue reading “Predicting weather impacts using GPU-accelerated high-performance computing”
Covid made me do it….
In November’s case study, we hear from researcher Gabrela da Silva Xavier who has been making use of BEAR’s storage and data processing power for imaging and RNA-sequencing data, in both her research and teaching… My name is Gabriela da Silva Xavier. I am an Associate Professor based at the Institute of Metabolism and Systems … Continue reading “Covid made me do it….”
Detecting malware through AI techniques
In September’s case study, we hear from PhD student Daniel Fentham from Computer Science, who has been making use of BEAR’s storage and data processing power, specifically using GPU’s to accelerate his research. The project I’m currently working on is automated malware detection using Graph Neural Networks, which we’ve needed to create an entire pipeline … Continue reading “Detecting malware through AI techniques”
BEAR PGR/ECR conference opportunity
The BEAR conference has now been running for over 10 years and was originally created to give PhD students experience in running a conference, as well as provide a showcase for the fantastic research done on BEAR. With previous support from the Graduate School and our suppliers, we have been able to provide catering as … Continue reading “BEAR PGR/ECR conference opportunity”
From Image Analysis to ThunderSTORM
In July’s case study we hear from Stanimir Tashev, a PhD student in Cardiovascular Science, who has been making use of BEAR’s storage and data processing power, specifically the BEAR Portal to enable his research… I have been a Ph.D. student in the Herten Lab (@HertenDirk) since 2019 and my project deals with single molecule … Continue reading “From Image Analysis to ThunderSTORM”
Further Coding Club sessions (May-July)
We’re happy to announce a further 3 coding club sessions, these range from building pipelines and using GPU’s to a workshop where you can bring in your issues, queries and questions. Our aim is to build a community of members of the University who would like to learn and share good software practices. We meet … Continue reading “Further Coding Club sessions (May-July)”
New Coding Club Starting Up in January!
[For sessions in May, June and July see here: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2022/04/26/further-codingclub-sessions-may-july/ ] We are setting up a Coding Club from January for researchers and staff at the University of Birmingham to help them meet the goal of the Software Sustainability Institute of “Better Software, Better Research” i.e. if the software is incorrect then the resulting research … Continue reading “New Coding Club Starting Up in January!”