Parallel Computing

21 articles · Latest September 5, 2024

Peter Kalverla·Sep 5, 2024

(Un)wieldy workflows with WRF

(Un)wieldy workflows with WRF Streamlining experiments with the Weather Research and Forecasting model The Weather Research and Forecasting model, WRF for short, is a beautiful pie...

Nicolas Renaud·Dec 6, 2023

Machine Learning Machinery for Quantum Chemistry

Machine learning techniques are impacting all areas of science, and molecular simulations are not spared. This blog post shows how to make use of the tools and techniques developed...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Oct 25, 2023

The Utopic Git History

If you love this article and can’t wait to read more about The Utopic Git History, please see this follow-up article(/achieving-utopic-git-history-4cc2a1fd3107?sk=88f3dac86d55ac183...

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eScience Editorial Team·Jul 10, 2023

Summer is here, and so are large language models.

Welcome to the technological revolution of 2023, where the landscape of communication and information processing has been forever transformed. Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash...

Aron·Apr 13, 2023

Molecular Simulations using Machine Learning, Part 2

In this post, I will walk through the process of designing a model used in molecular simulations, from essential to state of the art. This is the second part of a series on using m...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Jan 26, 2023

An applied mathematician meets software engineering

How software engineering practices helped me bridge the gap between mathematics and other fields Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash From industry to academia Let’s go backward to 2015...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 27, 2022

How to manage your software

Today the Netherlands eScience Center and NWO released a Practical Guide to Software Management Plans (SMPs). The Software Management Plan Working Group developed the Guide with in...

eScience Editorial Team·Aug 2, 2022

Our favourite Python tools for research

Photo by Ethan Robertson on Unsplash Ah, summer. A time to relax, go on holiday, and learn new things. At the eScience Center, we love summer. And we love Python. So, for summer,...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 13, 2022

Studying political symbolism in Turkish TV dramas with machine learning

Studying political symbolism in Turkish TV dramas with machine learning eScience Editorial Team·Jun 10, 2022 Faced with a challenge of this type, Machine Learning can come to the r...

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eScience Editorial Team·Mar 11, 2022

Parsing Hebrew and Syriac morphology using Deep Learning

State-of-the-art technology meets ancient literature This blog is part of our blog series: The Small-Scale Initiative on Machine Learning, how did it go?, where groups who were inv...

Gijs van den Oord·Dec 14, 2021

The new IPCC assessment report: stakes have been raised

In PRIMAVERA, a Horizon 2020 project, we focused upon the I/O machinery in a big European climate model EC-Earth. In particular, we were asked to come up with a solution to make th...

Felipe·Apr 14, 2021

Using Rust for Scientific Numerical applications: Learning from Past Experiences

Every experienced programmer knows that both their productivity depends on the abstraction level of the language. The fewer lines of code you write, the fewer bugs you introduce. H...

Felipe·Feb 22, 2021

A Quick and Dirty Pytest Cookbook

As an alternative to the above snippet, you can install and run the pytest-mypy-plugins. Testing the documentation Testing the documentation is a must have. The following snippet s...

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eScience Editorial Team·Oct 9, 2020

Help! My C++ web app is not responding

By Stefan Verhoeven, Christiaan Meijer, Faruk Diblen, Jurriaan H. Spaaks, and Adam Belloum. In an earlier blogpost we discussed how to run C++ code on the web using JavaScript. We...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Aug 17, 2020

Parallel R in a nutshell

Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Loops are, by definition, repetitive tasks. Although it is not part of the definition, loops also tend to be boring. Luckily for us, computers ar...

Netherlands eScience Center·Apr 2, 2020

Can we teach AI’s speech by simulating young children’s ability to learn spoken language?

8 Today, we can´t imagine life without voice controlled intelligent systems such as Siri, Google Assistant, car navigation systems and other applications. Such systems use a speech...

Johan Hidding·Jan 16, 2020

Parallel programming in Python

Depending on your level of Python expertise, you might implement such an algorithm in different ways. In an introductory Python course we could write this function as follows. impo...

Ben van Werkhoven·Dec 2, 2019

FAIR Software at the 2019 eScience Symposium

An important part of giving proper attribution is to make your software citable and to cite others when you build upon their work. Stephan and others have developed the Citation Fi...

Johan Hidding·Jun 3, 2019

breaking the barrier fluid simulations parallel-in-time.

Parallel flows — Photo by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash These days computers are growing faster only by adding more cores and increasing parallelism of the programs. As an example,...

Jurriaan H. Spaaks·Dec 20, 2018

portable hpc workflows with snakemake and xenon

Migrate your scientific workflows to different remote machines in minutes instead of days Image courtesy of WallpaperUP Scientific workflows are often coupled to the computer syste...

Patrick Bos·Aug 6, 2018

floating (point) butterfly effect

Searching for tiny bugs that cause big problems I know it’s a bug, but it’s so pretty… what harm could it do? Last year, I took a few weeks to look into floating point round-off er...