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Supercomputing (HPC)

DeiC coordinates and facilitates the usage of the national supercomputers available for Danish researchers. The computers are operated and developed by the universities, who provide computing power for researchers independently of their institutional affiliation.

The abbreviation “HPC” stands for "High Performance Computing", and basically means calculations performed using extremely fast computers. Supercomputers consist of a large number of fast computers linked together in a high-speed network. This means that a supercomputer is not actually one huge computer, but several large computers linked together.

Revised
10 Sep 2021

Use cases

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Jakob Bæk Kristensen - Deic
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04 Jan 2024
Video use case: How to analyze 919 million SoMe posts
By using HPC resources researcher Jakob Bæk Kristensen and his group investigates how alternative news are shared and spread on social media across Europe.
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Adela - deic conference
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03 Jan 2024
Video use case: DeiC Interactive strengthens teaching in digital methods
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.
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Kristian Sommer Thygesen - DeiC
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18 Dec 2023
Video use case: Unleashing the power of LUMI
In 2023 a LUMI grand challenge allowed Professor of Theoretical physics Kristian Sommer Thygesen and his team to calculate the electronic structure of 10.000 materials.
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Rebeka Baglini
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11 Dec 2023
Supercomputing drives deeper insight into Linguistics and social media
DeiC Interactive HPC has become an integral part of both research and teaching for Associate Professor in Linguistics Rebekah Baglini at Aarhus University’s Interacting Minds Centre.
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Rolf Lyneborg Lund
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06 Dec 2023
Video use case: HPC enlightens researchers in social sciences and humanities about human behavior.
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" neighborhoods.
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Rob van der Groot
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06 Dec 2023
Video use case: HPC-powered tool turbocharges NLP learning
Using a new tool called MaChAmp, researchers from the IT University can train language models on multiple datasets and solve multiple types of NLP tasks simultaneously.