Baskerville pushes the boundaries

In this case study, we hear from Christos Baziotis, from Edinburgh, who has been making use of Baskerville to enable his research in text generation using machine learning models.  I am a (3rd) final year Ph.D. candidate at the ILCC at the University of Edinburgh and a member of EdinburghNLP under the supervision of Barry Haddow and Alexandra Birch, in collaboration with Biao Zhang.  In … Continue reading “Baskerville pushes the boundaries”

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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”

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Baskerville Basics

Baskerville is a GPU-focussed Tier 2 HPC cluster that attracts users from a wide range of disciplines and with varying levels of HPC experience. Since joining the ARC team one of my roles has been helping design a short training course called Baskerville Basics which provides useful information regardless of users’ research disciplines and HPC … Continue reading “Baskerville Basics”

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