HPC Cloud in academia: Riding the technology wave
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 1:30 PM to 1:45 PM · 15 min. (Africa/Abidjan)
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Science is becoming more and more computational. Better and faster computations directly improve the quality and speed of scientific output. The ‘HPC lab’ at the Eindhoven University of Technology helps researchers, teachers and students with application optimization and with choosing the best-fit infrastructure to do computations. This local support greatly improves efficient use of HPC at the university.
A big challenge for the university is to make good informed decisions about many different use cases and to offer the users ‘ease of use’ and ways to collaborate. Using an HPC cloud platform makes this possible.
Several use cases will be presented. Two student racing teams use CFD simulations to build and optimize their cars (‘Solar Team Eindhoven’, leading world champion of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge and the ‘University Racing Eindhoven’ team, URE). Another student team (FruitPunch AI) focuses on applying AI for Good and is currently detecting poachers in drone images for wildlife preservation and training GANs for lung segmentation to aid in COVID-19 diagnosis.
A big challenge for the university is to make good informed decisions about many different use cases and to offer the users ‘ease of use’ and ways to collaborate. Using an HPC cloud platform makes this possible.
Several use cases will be presented. Two student racing teams use CFD simulations to build and optimize their cars (‘Solar Team Eindhoven’, leading world champion of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge and the ‘University Racing Eindhoven’ team, URE). Another student team (FruitPunch AI) focuses on applying AI for Good and is currently detecting poachers in drone images for wildlife preservation and training GANs for lung segmentation to aid in COVID-19 diagnosis.
