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Streamline your workflow when using DeiC Interactive HPC Have you ever experienced delays due to high demand for computing resources on UCloud (DeiC Interactive HPC)? The key to faster access and reducing system strain is efficient resource management. Over-requesting can lead to unnecessary waiting because DeiC Interactive HPC operates by allocating resources to users as… Read more: No More Waiting for Resources

DeiC Interactive HPC has achieved another remarkable feat: it now has more than 9000 users! The graph shows the rapid and steady growth of the user base, which has tripled in just two years. More about this new milestone here

A few days ago, Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus Universitet had the pleasure of inviting Interactive HPC Consortium colleagues from CLAAUDIA, Aalborg Universitet and the SDU eScience Center to a workshop day at the wonderful Moesgaard Museum. “We have these collaborative workshops every six months to stay informed and improve the Interactive HPC service,… Read more: Interactive HPC Consortium workshop

The first national call for HPC resources H2-2024 is now open. As a researcher at a Danish university, you have various options for gaining access to computing power at both Danish and international HPC facilities. Deadline for application is 12. March. For more information, visit DeiCs website.

Recently two advanced quantum computing applications were deployed on DeiC Interactive HPC: the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform and the NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance. These applications show the continuous commitment to offer cutting-edge technologies to the Interactive HPC users. “With these new applications, DeiC Interactive HPC is at the forefront of bringing quantum computing into practical, real-world… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC offers integration of advanced Quantum Computing Applications

Historian Adela Subotkova teaches history students at the University of Aarhus in digital methods. For her, DeiC Interactive has become an essential tool that has significantly facilitated and improved teaching. Visit deic.dk to view video use case from the 2023 DeiC Conference

Interactive HPC hits another milestone: There are now more than 8000 users! This is an increase of 1000 users during less than 3 months! The activity on the platform has been sky-high during the past few weeks – possibly amplified by the many researchers who praised the platform and inspired others at the DeiC conference… Read more: Another milestone – 8000 users on DeiC Interactive HPC

Sociologist Rolf Lyneborg Lund has trained an image AI using DeiCInteractive, which can help us understand how people perceive the concepts of “good” and “bad” neighbourhoods. Visit deic.dk to view video use case from the 2023 DeiC Conference

AI companies around the world are scrambling to get their hands on the latest and most powerful NVIDIA GPU called H100. The biggest costumers include OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. Now, 16 NVIDIA H100 GPUs have landed at SDU, ready to be integrated into the DeiC Interactive HPC system. With the arrival of 4 servers with 4… Read more: State-of-the-art GPUs for AI available through DeiC Interactive HPC

On Monday, December 4th, we are performing a major upgrade to UCloud’s infrastructure. This means that the system will be down for most of the day. Go to the SDU eScience Center news page for more information on the update.

Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights.From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing social media data, supercomputing offers unique opportunities to generate… Read more: Supercomputing for computational linguistics and (social) media data

What an accomplishment after less than 3 years of running the DeiC Interactive HPC service – there are now more than 7000 users on UCloud! And not only that – we are seeing an increase in the number of active users per quarter. Graph: the number of users on UCloud. UCloud has been used as… Read more: Interactive HPC reaches 7000 users

Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights.From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing social media data, supercomputing offers unique opportunities to generate… Read more: Utilizing agent-based models in archaeological data   

Researchers at a Danish university have various options for gaining access to computing power at both Danish and international HPC facilities. Front office personnell, please inform your users that the fall call H1-2024 is now open for applications for access to the e-ressources. Information about the call is found on DeiC’s website.

Beyond TraditionUnveiling the Uses of Supercomputing in Humanities.  Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights. From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing… Read more: Creating a Grundtvig-artificial intelligence using HPC

DeiC Interactive HPC consisting of Aalborg University, Aarhus University, and University of Southern Denmark has been at the forefront of cloud and interactive high-performance computing in Denmark for several years. Their commitment to information security and compliance with international standards, including their ISO 27001 certifications, has been a key factor in their success. In fact,… Read more: Interactive HPC lives up to highest international standards with ISO 27001

One minute!  That’s how long it took to set up the new SSH access to DeiC Interactive HPC applications.  If SSH is of interest to you, you probably know that DeiC Interactive HPC applications have recently experienced limitations in providing a reliable and scalable solution for accessing their services using Secure Shell Protocol (SSH). The… Read more: New way to use SSH for accessing apps on Interactive HPC 

Recently, the DeiC Interactive HPC consortium (which consists of Aarhus University, Aalborg University and the University of Southern Denmark) posted a news story about the user overload on the service. This is an issue arising from the very positive fact that the popularity of the DeiC Interactive HPC service is increasing, but it also has… Read more: New milestone as DeiC Interactive HPC reaches 6,000 users

  While there was never any doubt that DeiC Interactive HPC would be a success, the popularity of the HPC facility has taken the Interactive HPC consortium a little by surprise. The two-year old system reached no less than 5000 users back in December, and while every milestone is celebrated the rapid success also comes… Read more: The cost of success – user overload on DeiC Interactive HPC

Since the DeiC HPC services started in November 2020, a consortium of universities (AU, DTU and SDU) has been working hard to finish the ambitious development of the DeiC Integration Portal. The vision of the DeiC Integration Portal is to provide a national solution to access all the DeiC HPC systems and future DeiC services under one common portal. After two years… Read more: Launch of the DeiC Integration Portal

Free workshop on git, testing, documentation, and more – targeted towards researchers and scientists.

With this call DeiC invites applications from scientific staff and students at the eight Danish universities for allocation of compute resources on the national HPC facilities. The call is open to all scientific areas. Call H2-2023 is the second call for application on compute resources on the national e-resources. The second call is an open… Read more: H2-2023 Call for national HPC resources is now open

On Saturday, December 3rd, DeiC Interactive HPC reached 5000 users. This means that in the past three months, DeiC Interactive HPC has had 1000 new users. We’re very proud of the platform’s succes. Since the National HPC services began in November 2020, it has been evident that DeiC Interactive HPC via the platform UCloud has… Read more: Interactive HPC reaches 5000 users

Though supercomputers form the key basis of his research, UCloud has been a valuable, complementary tool for Tobias and his colleagues and will most likely continue to be so in future work as well. Post.doc. Tobias Tsang works within the broader research field of theoretical particle physics. As part of the Centre for Cosmology and… Read more: UCloud as a complementary HPC tool within theoretical particle physics

UCloud is not just an ideal platform for the individual researcher who wants interactive access to HPC resources or an easy way to collaborate with national or international partners. It is also highly suitable for teaching. Jennifer Bartell and Samuele Soraggi, who are both working on the project National Health Data Science Sandbox for Training… Read more: National Health Data Science Sandbox for Training and Research

We’re approaching the end of the second year with DeiC Interactive HPC – and there are now 4000 users on UCloud! During the first year with DeiC Interactive HPC, UCloud reached more than 2000 users. We’re glad that the interest in the platform has continued to grow throughout the second year. Go to SDU eScience… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC reaches 4.000 users on UCloud

UCloud has been a game changer for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Humanities Computing (Aarhus University), Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, teaching within the crossroads of cultural studies and data science. In short, the benefits of UCloud within teaching narrows down to a much more trouble-free teaching process free of unnecessary technical issues, allowing teachers as… Read more: Teaching Humanities in UCloud

Since we discontinued our support for mounting your local folders onto UCloud using WebDAV, have we been in search of a way to allow the users of UCloud to work with their files locally without having to re-upload them to UCloud after every change. We are happy to announce that we now have a new… Read more: New UCloud release

As a researcher or Ph.d. Student at a Danish university you can now apply for resources on the national HPC centers, including the Danish part of EuroHPC LUMI. The second call for applications for regular access to resources on the national HPC centers is now open. This includes applications for the Danish part of EuroHPC… Read more: Call for applications for National HPC resources

Nu er der åbnet for tilmeldingen til årets DeiC konference med fokus på modenhed og tilpasning. Konferencens hovedtema er ”Alignment and Maturity: Implementing Research Infrastructure Solutions”. Programmet er inddelt i fire spor: Data management, supercomputing (HPC), net og tjenester, samt sikkerhed. Inden for hvert spor vil der blive fokuseret på ’maturity’ og ’alignment’, samt strategier til løsninger på… Read more: Tilmeldingen til DeiC konference 2022 er åben

On May 10th, the SDU eScience Center was visited by colleagues from Aarhus University and Aalborg University for a Back Office workshop in the DeiC Interactive HPC consortium. The DeiC Interactive HPC Back Office collaborates on the development and operation of the facility.  The overall topic of the workshop was “Developing UCloud apps” and discussion points… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC Back Office workshop

This year’s DeiC conference kicks off on the 26th and 27th of October! Mark your calendar for the 26th – 27th of October 2022, for the DeiC conference! This time the conference will be held at Comwell Kolding. The conference is the event of the year in the field of e-infrastructure, particularly for research and… Read more: DeiC Conference 2022 – Oct. 26th-27th

“I believe that when combining digital methods with the humanities, a lot of really great research can be done.” Phillip Stenmann Baun, Aarhus University Ph.d. student at the Department of Global Studies (Aarhus University), Phillip Stenmann Baun, has a background in History and is now working within the interdisciplinary field of memory studies and digital… Read more: Examining far-right memory practices by use of digital methods

By the end of 2021, students and staff interested in digital methods, data wrangling, text and data mining from Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen were once again invited to join the annually recurring datasprint organised by The University Libraries at The Royal Danish Library (Det Kgl. Bibliotek). With the purpose of developing competencies within… Read more: Participant reflections on data(Tinget) and using UCloud

For the majority of researchers and students of the humanities, digital methods are far from standard procedure, and this is exactly what initiatives such as the datasprints organised and financed by The Royal Danish Library hope to change. The value of digital methods in the humanities is gradually becoming clearer across disciplines. However, as programming… Read more: Organizer reflections on data(Tinget) and using UCloud

(…)In 2019, senior researcher Ejnar Stig Askgaard from Odense City Museums began comparing Hans Christian Andersen’s notes, written between approximately 1833 – 1875, with the 162 fairy tales, novels and autobiographies. This had led to the discovery that Hans Christian Andersen liked to use symbols such as cross marks or deletions in his notes to indicate that the note had been reused in his… Read more: Detecting text reuse in H.C. Andersen’s work

Researchers within the field of humanities are typically not heavy users of HPC (High Performance Computing) or cloud computing. However, a book, once digitalized, is actually quite a big data set. Assistant Professor at the department of Design and Communication, Zhiru Sun, tells us how she has been helping researchers from the Faculty of Humanities… Read more: Digital Humanities

Monday the 31st of January the partnering Universities (AU, AAU, and SDU) met up for a workshop to take stock on the first year with UCloud – DeiC Interactive HPC. One year of Interactive HPC One year after going live, the effect and esteem of UCloud across national users can be (partly) analysed, and with… Read more: One-year-in workshop – Status of DeiC Interactive HPC, UCloud

On the 1st of February, a new and improved experience for virtual machines was launched on the UCloud platform. This means that launching a virtual machine will only take a few seconds. Previously, UCloud users had to wait a few business days before a virtual machine could be created due to a manual step in… Read more: Faster startup times for Virtual Machines

In November 2020, the Danish universities coordinated by DeiC committed to working closely together to provide a joint platform to access all the DeiC national services such as the national HPC facilities. The project known as DeiC Project 5 will create the National Integration Portal based on the UCloud software infrastructure. As part of the… Read more: Major UCloud update

Er du forsker eller Ph.d.-studerende ved et dansk universitet kan du nu søge om adgang til regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg, inklusiv den danske del af EuroHPC LUMI. Opslaget er åbent for alle forskningsområder. Der er åbent for ansøgninger om adgang til regneressourcer på de nationale HPC-anlæg. Det gælder også den danske del af EuroHPC… Read more: Første kald om regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg er nu åbent

Professor (WSR) Oliver Baumann from the Department of Business & Management at SDU tells us how he uses supercomputing for his research and gives us his take on how researchers from social sciences, who are beginning to reach a limit with their own computers, can benefit from Interactive HPC. In a current project, Baumann collaborates… Read more: HPC and Social Sciences

New webinar on Teaching through UCloud The webinar aims to show how to utilize UCloud in terms of resources for students and teachers. In particular examples related to project management, software ready to use, assistance in the teacher and student workflows will be discussed. View the one hour recorded webinar and Q&A from webinar chat.

Once again The University Libraries at The Royal Danish Library invite students and staff from the Danish Universities to join us in a datasprint to grabble with digital methods like data wrangling and text and data mining. The topic is democracy and political negotiations in t… This is an excerpt. Click here for the full… Read more: Data(Tinget) – A data sprint on politics, history, data, and democracy

A new set of Danish deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) was trained in UCloud. Danish NLP has in recent years obtained considerable improvements with the addition of multiple new datasets and models. However, at present, there is no coherent framework for applying state-of-the-art models for Danish. We present DaCy: a unified framework… Read more: DaCy: A Unified Framework for Danish NLP

Learn how to apply AI tools, techniques and algorithms to real-life problems. You will study the core concepts of Deep Neural Networks, how to build Deep Learning models as well as how to measure and improve the accuracy of your models. You will also learn essential data pre-processing techniques to ensure a robust Machine Learning… Read more: Interactive HPC-DK AI For Science GPU Bootcamp – October 13-14, 2021

Are you developing software or tools that are driven by research/engineering in either academia or industry? Need to network, share knowledge and experiences with your peers? Nordic-RSE invites everyone interested to join and shape the agenda of our lightweight get-together. The program will consist mainly of your contributions and we encourage you to submit a… Read more: Nordic-RSE online unconference – June 29-30, 2021

One Danish research group can get the unique opportunity to make their metadata machine actionable in a 2 x 1/2 day event – free of charge. The concept is developed by researchers for researchers. The aim of the M4M WS is to work practically on how to improve your metadata and make them machine-actionable, thus… Read more: Improve your research impact: Metadata for Machines Workshop

During the first wave of Covid-19 information decoupling could be observed in the flow of news media content. The corollary of the content alignment within and between news sources experienced by readers (i.e., all news transformed into Corona-news), was that the novelty of news content went down as media focused monotonically on the pandemic event.… Read more: When no news is bad news – Detection of negative events from news media content