Use Cases

This page presents some of the use cases from researchers and students at RUC as well as few inspirational stories reposted from interactivehpc.dk. It also illustrates utilization of HPC from a technical point of view and shows enhancements of research.


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

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    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 […]

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  • The R course with UCloud

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    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. […]

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  • Teaching Humanities in UCloud

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    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 […]

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