Introducing Ada, the University of Nottingham’s new, most powerful HPC service
June 7, 2024
As one of the UK’s leading research universities, we are renowned for the strength, quality and breadth of our research and teaching capabilities. To further bolster our commitment to research excellence, we are delighted to share that we have implemented a new, state-of-the-art High-Performance Computing (HPC) system. The names of the new facility, “Ada”, is …
Accelerating the University’s research ambitions with a more powerful HPC service
May 15, 2023
The University’s High Performance Computing (HPC) service is a research facility available to academic staff and research students, from any School or Faculty, who have the need for computing resource substantially greater than a standard PC. Enabling research that changes the world As one of the UK’s leading research universities, UoN is renowned for the …
Using Julia on the HPC
September 30, 2022
In this blog, we explore the speed and efficiency of using the programming language Julia on the University’s high-performance computer. This blog has been guest-authored by Jamie Mair, a PhD researcher in the School of Physics and Astronomy. The repository for the code given below, which was presented at this year’s annual UoN HPC conference, …
Train a Custom Computer Vision Model using Detectron2
July 16, 2021
Training a custom computer vision model to work on your research dataset may be daunting due to the imagined complexities and effort involved. However, some very powerful open-source frameworks, such as Detectron2, have recently been made available to simplify the process. Detectron2 is an open-source framework that implements state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. Detectron2 comes with …
High Performance Computing via a Windows interface
November 26, 2019
In this post, we look at how the University has been testing a Windows interface to its High Performance Computer As data sets become larger and more complex, there is a greater need for more computing power. The University’s High Performance Computer (HPC) allows researchers to distribute their processing, simulations, and computation across hundreds of …
