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  • Addressing Climate Change with Big Data: A Machine Learning Approach to Green Public Procurement 

    Ph.D. student Bjarke Lund-Sørensen, Roskilde University, in collaboration with Professor Ole Helby Petersen and Associate Professor Lena Brogaard.  This project examines how governments utilize the great potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through public procurement from the private market. Public procurement is a slightly overlooked area in the debate on climate change. However, public procurement […]

  • Setting up jupyter-notebook with GPUs on AAU

    As a pre-requirement make sure you have a project on UCloud with allocation of CPU and GPU resources on AAU. If this is not the case, please contact your local Front Office, for example by sending an email to escience@ruc.dk. The HW configurations from AAU are described below (per single node): GPU Nvidia T4 [1, […]

  • The cost of success – user overload on DeiC Interactive HPC

    Re-posting of an article: https://interactivehpc.dk/?p=1286 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 […]

  • Start openFOAM with VSCodium from UCloud

    This is a short guide used for openFOAM Workshop presented by Johan Rønby Pedersen during IMUFA seminar taking place on 8th of February and 1st of March 2023. Participants need to perform the following steps to get the environment up and running. Login to UCloud and setting up a job When the job starts you […]

  • Upcoming maintenance of UCloud

    DOWNTIME: Scheduled maintenance on the Type 1 HPC provider – UCloud On Tuesday the 7th of Feburary 2023, we will be conducting scheduled maintenance on the Type 1 provider. During this period, we will, unfortunately, have to stop all running jobs. The maintenance will occur between 08:00 and 16:00. We will update you here and […]

  • Quick guide on running JupyterLab on UCloud

    This guide provides an overview how to access the Interactive HPC also known as UCloud. It may be relevant for researchers and students who needs access to special software avoiding local installation and hardware up to 64CPU cores and 376GB of RAM on UCloud. This platform dramatically reduce processing times during data analysis and therefore […]

  • The R course with UCloud

    John Shorter organized a nicely structured R course and presented general insight into R, which is powerful language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. The course also provided familiarization with RStudio as an integrated development environment for R. Each participant was able to run the RStudio on UCloud as an interactive application accessible through a standard web browser. […]

  • Teaching Humanities in UCloud

    This is a reposted article from https://interactivehpc.dk/?p=780. 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 […]

  • What effected teachers and students’ performance during Covid-19 lockdown?

    Associate Professor Jens Ulrik Hansen, Roskilde University in collaboration with Assistant Professor Sine Zambach, Copenhagen Business School Based on administrative data about students, courses and teachers at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) together with a teacher survey and student evaluation of courses and teachers, we have investigated what had an effect on students’ performance (grades) and […]

  • AlterPublics: Alternative Media and Ideological Counterpublics

    AlterPublics: Alternative Media and Ideological Counterpublics

    Principal investigator: Eva Mayerhöffer. Other team members Jakob Bæk Kristensen (Post.doc), Frederik Henriksen (PhD student) and Tim Ramsland (Research assistant) The AlterPublics project studies the role of alternative media in the digital public sphere. Alternative news media have become crucial actors in modern societies, and their ideology-driven content presents a critical challenge for journalism, public […]