ONLYOFFICE is a browser-based office suite for creating and editing text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Fully compatible with Microsoft Office formats, the interface supports a seamless user experience for those familiar with traditional desktop editors. Designed to support document work directly within the UCloud environment, ONLYOFFICE allows users to: The app provides core functionality through… Read more: New app: ONLYOFFICE Now Available on UCloud
In this video we will introduce the new UCloud Courses app – a tool for hosting and managing university courses on UCloud. Dr. Federica Lo Verso will walk you through the concept and background of the app.You’ll get a hands-on demonstration of how to access and use the tool, explore its integration with GitHub, and… Read more: Workshop recording: Introduction to hosting courses on UCloud
Indico is a robust open-source platform for event organization, archiving, and collaboration, ideal for managing conferences, workshops, and scientific meetings. Key features include: Indico has been implemented on UCloud and is ready for use by all UCloud users. For more details, visit UCloud docs for full documentation.
Developing your own UCloud course app using a newly developed template-based approach Join us for a hands-on workshop where we guide you through all the steps of developing a UCloud course app using our newly developed template-based approach. The concept involves having a dedicated app on UCloud for your university course that students can use… Read more: Workshop 11/6: UCloud Courses
Users of DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud can now access Apache Kafka, a high-performance event streaming platform designed for managing real-time data at scale. Kafka deployments on UCloud support multi-node configurations, enabling production-grade distributed logging, stream processing, data integration, and publish/subscribe messaging systems. Students and researchers can use Apache Kafka to collect, process, and analyse… Read more: New App: Apache Kafka
With growing demand for transcription/AI services on Interactive HPC – UCloud, Speech Analyzer has been added to the platform. Speech Analyzer is a specialised application built on top of Label Studio, optimised for dialogue analysis. It enables users to label, edit, and annotate speech transcriptions generated by the integrated Transcriber engine. It also allows you… Read more: New app: Speech Analyzer – A New AI Tool for Dialogue Analysis
Join us for three new and free online workshops to explore how these tools can transform your work. Discover AI Applications on DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud Workshop 1: Transcribing and editing audio transcriptions with Transcriber and Speech Analyzer apps Date: 22 May 2025 Time: 13:00 – 15:00 (CET) Location: Online, via Zoom (link TBA)… Read more: Workshops on AI applications
Yesterday, we were at First Hotel Grand Odense for the first DeiC Interactive HPC workshop of 2025 It was time to give each other a status on the developments and work done since our last consortium workshop in Rebild Bakker in the fall of 2024. Key topics included: Thanks to the SDU eScience Center for… Read more: Interactive HPC Consortium workshop
Teachers mark your calendars for April 30! The DeiC Interactive HPC consortium partners have organised an online webinar about the newly developed concept of UCloud courses. The webinar is open to researchers from all Danish universities. If you already know that you would like to use UCloud for a course in the fall of 2025, now is… Read more: Webinar 30/4: Introduction to hosting courses on UCloud
The DeiC Interactive HPC consortium is thrilled to announce that the service, powered by the UCloud software, has reached another significant milestone: 15,000 users. This achievement underscores the service’s growing popularity and its pivotal role in advancing digital research through user-friendly supercomputing access. Since its inception, DeiC Interactive HPC has been dedicated to providing researchers… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC now has 15,000 Users
By Jasper Riis-Hansen and Line Ejby Sørensen, Center for Humanities Computing (CHC), Aarhus University DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud plays a central role in the Danish Foundation Models (DFM) project, which forms part of the Danish government’s strategic initiative for artificial intelligence. Danish Foundation Models (DFM) is supported by the Ministry of Digital Affairs as… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC Crucial for Danish AI Language Models
A new feature has been launched on the innovative UCloud platform, designed to provide a seamless and efficient learning experience for both educators and students. If you are teaching a course at a Danish University and would like to have a setup ready to use for students with all the necessary tools pre-installed and easy access to… Read more: Host university courses on UCloud
Join us for two free online workshops this December to explore how these tools can transform your work. Discover AI Applications on DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud Workshop 1: Introduction to AI Tools on DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud Date: December 10th Time: 12:30–14:00 This beginner-friendly session will introduce you the basics of AI tools… Read more: Workshops on UCloud AI applications
With 10,000 users, DeiC Interactive HPC has established itself as one of Europe’s most popular HPC facilities, thanks to an unprecedented democratisation of access to advanced computing resources. These resources, once reserved for specialised research fields and technically adept specialists, are now accessible to any researcher with a dataset and a vision. Through a newly… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC Revolutionises Interdisciplinary Research with User-Friendly Supercomputing Access
DeiC Interactive HPC is excited to roll out the new User Interface on the UCloud platform, designed to simplify processes and enhance the user experience. The updated interface, serving 10,000 users (and growing), signifies the dedication to delivering an easy-to-use interface that provides researchers with access to advanced interactive computing power, along with comprehensive data… Read more: New UCloud User Interface
Streamline your workflow when using DeiC Interactive HPC Have you ever experienced delays due to high demand for computing resources on UCloud (DeiC Interactive HPC)? The key to faster access and reducing system strain is efficient resource management. Over-requesting can lead to unnecessary waiting because DeiC Interactive HPC operates by allocating resources to users as… Read more: No More Waiting for Resources
DeiC Interactive HPC has achieved another remarkable feat: it now has more than 9000 users! The graph shows the rapid and steady growth of the user base, which has tripled in just two years. More about this new milestone here
A few days ago, Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus Universitet had the pleasure of inviting Interactive HPC Consortium colleagues from CLAAUDIA, Aalborg Universitet and the SDU eScience Center to a workshop day at the wonderful Moesgaard Museum. “We have these collaborative workshops every six months to stay informed and improve the Interactive HPC service,… Read more: Interactive HPC Consortium workshop
The first national call for HPC resources H2-2024 is now open. As a researcher at a Danish university, you have various options for gaining access to computing power at both Danish and international HPC facilities. Deadline for application is 12. March. For more information, visit DeiCs website.
Recently two advanced quantum computing applications were deployed on DeiC Interactive HPC: the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform and the NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance. These applications show the continuous commitment to offer cutting-edge technologies to the Interactive HPC users. “With these new applications, DeiC Interactive HPC is at the forefront of bringing quantum computing into practical, real-world… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC offers integration of advanced Quantum Computing Applications
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. Visit deic.dk to view video use case from the 2023 DeiC Conference
Interactive HPC hits another milestone: There are now more than 8000 users! This is an increase of 1000 users during less than 3 months! The activity on the platform has been sky-high during the past few weeks – possibly amplified by the many researchers who praised the platform and inspired others at the DeiC conference… Read more: Another milestone – 8000 users on DeiC Interactive HPC
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” neighbourhoods. Visit deic.dk to view video use case from the 2023 DeiC Conference
AI companies around the world are scrambling to get their hands on the latest and most powerful NVIDIA GPU called H100. The biggest costumers include OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. Now, 16 NVIDIA H100 GPUs have landed at SDU, ready to be integrated into the DeiC Interactive HPC system. With the arrival of 4 servers with 4… Read more: State-of-the-art GPUs for AI available through DeiC Interactive HPC
On Monday, December 4th, we are performing a major upgrade to UCloud’s infrastructure. This means that the system will be down for most of the day. Go to the SDU eScience Center news page for more information on the update.
Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights.From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing social media data, supercomputing offers unique opportunities to generate… Read more: Supercomputing for computational linguistics and (social) media data
What an accomplishment after less than 3 years of running the DeiC Interactive HPC service – there are now more than 7000 users on UCloud! And not only that – we are seeing an increase in the number of active users per quarter. Graph: the number of users on UCloud. UCloud has been used as… Read more: Interactive HPC reaches 7000 users
Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights.From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing social media data, supercomputing offers unique opportunities to generate… Read more: Utilizing agent-based models in archaeological data
Researchers at a Danish university have various options for gaining access to computing power at both Danish and international HPC facilities. Front office personnell, please inform your users that the fall call H1-2024 is now open for applications for access to the e-ressources. Information about the call is found on DeiC’s website.
Beyond TraditionUnveiling the Uses of Supercomputing in Humanities. Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights. From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing… Read more: Creating a Grundtvig-artificial intelligence using HPC
DeiC Interactive HPC consisting of Aalborg University, Aarhus University, and University of Southern Denmark has been at the forefront of cloud and interactive high-performance computing in Denmark for several years. Their commitment to information security and compliance with international standards, including their ISO 27001 certifications, has been a key factor in their success. In fact,… Read more: Interactive HPC lives up to highest international standards with ISO 27001
One minute! That’s how long it took to set up the new SSH access to DeiC Interactive HPC applications. If SSH is of interest to you, you probably know that DeiC Interactive HPC applications have recently experienced limitations in providing a reliable and scalable solution for accessing their services using Secure Shell Protocol (SSH). The… Read more: New way to use SSH for accessing apps on Interactive HPC
Recently, the DeiC Interactive HPC consortium (which consists of Aarhus University, Aalborg University and the University of Southern Denmark) posted a news story about the user overload on the service. This is an issue arising from the very positive fact that the popularity of the DeiC Interactive HPC service is increasing, but it also has… Read more: New milestone as DeiC Interactive HPC reaches 6,000 users
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 rapid success also comes… Read more: The cost of success – user overload on DeiC Interactive HPC
Since the DeiC HPC services started in November 2020, a consortium of universities (AU, DTU and SDU) has been working hard to finish the ambitious development of the DeiC Integration Portal. The vision of the DeiC Integration Portal is to provide a national solution to access all the DeiC HPC systems and future DeiC services under one common portal. After two years… Read more: Launch of the DeiC Integration Portal
With this call DeiC invites applications from scientific staff and students at the eight Danish universities for allocation of compute resources on the national HPC facilities. The call is open to all scientific areas. Call H2-2023 is the second call for application on compute resources on the national e-resources. The second call is an open… Read more: H2-2023 Call for national HPC resources is now open
On Saturday, December 3rd, DeiC Interactive HPC reached 5000 users. This means that in the past three months, DeiC Interactive HPC has had 1000 new users. We’re very proud of the platform’s succes. Since the National HPC services began in November 2020, it has been evident that DeiC Interactive HPC via the platform UCloud has… Read more: Interactive HPC reaches 5000 users
Though supercomputers form the key basis of his research, UCloud has been a valuable, complementary tool for Tobias and his colleagues and will most likely continue to be so in future work as well. Post.doc. Tobias Tsang works within the broader research field of theoretical particle physics. As part of the Centre for Cosmology and… Read more: UCloud as a complementary HPC tool within theoretical particle physics
UCloud is not just an ideal platform for the individual researcher who wants interactive access to HPC resources or an easy way to collaborate with national or international partners. It is also highly suitable for teaching. Jennifer Bartell and Samuele Soraggi, who are both working on the project National Health Data Science Sandbox for Training… Read more: National Health Data Science Sandbox for Training and Research
We’re approaching the end of the second year with DeiC Interactive HPC – and there are now 4000 users on UCloud! During the first year with DeiC Interactive HPC, UCloud reached more than 2000 users. We’re glad that the interest in the platform has continued to grow throughout the second year. Go to SDU eScience… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC reaches 4.000 users on UCloud
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 unnecessary technical issues, allowing teachers as… Read more: Teaching Humanities in UCloud
Since we discontinued our support for mounting your local folders onto UCloud using WebDAV, have we been in search of a way to allow the users of UCloud to work with their files locally without having to re-upload them to UCloud after every change. We are happy to announce that we now have a new… Read more: New UCloud release
As a researcher or Ph.d. Student at a Danish university you can now apply for resources on the national HPC centers, including the Danish part of EuroHPC LUMI. The second call for applications for regular access to resources on the national HPC centers is now open. This includes applications for the Danish part of EuroHPC… Read more: Call for applications for National HPC resources
Nu er der åbnet for tilmeldingen til årets DeiC konference med fokus på modenhed og tilpasning. Konferencens hovedtema er ”Alignment and Maturity: Implementing Research Infrastructure Solutions”. Programmet er inddelt i fire spor: Data management, supercomputing (HPC), net og tjenester, samt sikkerhed. Inden for hvert spor vil der blive fokuseret på ’maturity’ og ’alignment’, samt strategier til løsninger på… Read more: Tilmeldingen til DeiC konference 2022 er åben
On May 10th, the SDU eScience Center was visited by colleagues from Aarhus University and Aalborg University for a Back Office workshop in the DeiC Interactive HPC consortium. The DeiC Interactive HPC Back Office collaborates on the development and operation of the facility. The overall topic of the workshop was “Developing UCloud apps” and discussion points… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC Back Office workshop
This year’s DeiC conference kicks off on the 26th and 27th of October! Mark your calendar for the 26th – 27th of October 2022, for the DeiC conference! This time the conference will be held at Comwell Kolding. The conference is the event of the year in the field of e-infrastructure, particularly for research and… Read more: DeiC Conference 2022 – Oct. 26th-27th
“I believe that when combining digital methods with the humanities, a lot of really great research can be done.” Phillip Stenmann Baun, Aarhus University Ph.d. student at the Department of Global Studies (Aarhus University), Phillip Stenmann Baun, has a background in History and is now working within the interdisciplinary field of memory studies and digital… Read more: Examining far-right memory practices by use of digital methods
By the end of 2021, students and staff interested in digital methods, data wrangling, text and data mining from Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen were once again invited to join the annually recurring datasprint organised by The University Libraries at The Royal Danish Library (Det Kgl. Bibliotek). With the purpose of developing competencies within… Read more: Participant reflections on data(Tinget) and using UCloud
For the majority of researchers and students of the humanities, digital methods are far from standard procedure, and this is exactly what initiatives such as the datasprints organised and financed by The Royal Danish Library hope to change. The value of digital methods in the humanities is gradually becoming clearer across disciplines. However, as programming… Read more: Organizer reflections on data(Tinget) and using UCloud
(…)In 2019, senior researcher Ejnar Stig Askgaard from Odense City Museums began comparing Hans Christian Andersen’s notes, written between approximately 1833 – 1875, with the 162 fairy tales, novels and autobiographies. This had led to the discovery that Hans Christian Andersen liked to use symbols such as cross marks or deletions in his notes to indicate that the note had been reused in his… Read more: Detecting text reuse in H.C. Andersen’s work
Researchers within the field of humanities are typically not heavy users of HPC (High Performance Computing) or cloud computing. However, a book, once digitalized, is actually quite a big data set. Assistant Professor at the department of Design and Communication, Zhiru Sun, tells us how she has been helping researchers from the Faculty of Humanities… Read more: Digital Humanities
Monday the 31st of January the partnering Universities (AU, AAU, and SDU) met up for a workshop to take stock on the first year with UCloud – DeiC Interactive HPC. One year of Interactive HPC One year after going live, the effect and esteem of UCloud across national users can be (partly) analysed, and with… Read more: One-year-in workshop – Status of DeiC Interactive HPC, UCloud
On the 1st of February, a new and improved experience for virtual machines was launched on the UCloud platform. This means that launching a virtual machine will only take a few seconds. Previously, UCloud users had to wait a few business days before a virtual machine could be created due to a manual step in… Read more: Faster startup times for Virtual Machines
In November 2020, the Danish universities coordinated by DeiC committed to working closely together to provide a joint platform to access all the DeiC national services such as the national HPC facilities. The project known as DeiC Project 5 will create the National Integration Portal based on the UCloud software infrastructure. As part of the… Read more: Major UCloud update
Er du forsker eller Ph.d.-studerende ved et dansk universitet kan du nu søge om adgang til regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg, inklusiv den danske del af EuroHPC LUMI. Opslaget er åbent for alle forskningsområder. Der er åbent for ansøgninger om adgang til regneressourcer på de nationale HPC-anlæg. Det gælder også den danske del af EuroHPC… Read more: Første kald om regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg er nu åbent
Professor (WSR) Oliver Baumann from the Department of Business & Management at SDU tells us how he uses supercomputing for his research and gives us his take on how researchers from social sciences, who are beginning to reach a limit with their own computers, can benefit from Interactive HPC. In a current project, Baumann collaborates… Read more: HPC and Social Sciences
New webinar on Teaching through UCloud The webinar aims to show how to utilize UCloud in terms of resources for students and teachers. In particular examples related to project management, software ready to use, assistance in the teacher and student workflows will be discussed. View the one hour recorded webinar and Q&A from webinar chat.
Once again The University Libraries at The Royal Danish Library invite students and staff from the Danish Universities to join us in a datasprint to grabble with digital methods like data wrangling and text and data mining. The topic is democracy and political negotiations in t… This is an excerpt. Click here for the full… Read more: Data(Tinget) – A data sprint on politics, history, data, and democracy
A new set of Danish deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) was trained in UCloud. Danish NLP has in recent years obtained considerable improvements with the addition of multiple new datasets and models. However, at present, there is no coherent framework for applying state-of-the-art models for Danish. We present DaCy: a unified framework… Read more: DaCy: A Unified Framework for Danish NLP
Learn how to apply AI tools, techniques and algorithms to real-life problems. You will study the core concepts of Deep Neural Networks, how to build Deep Learning models as well as how to measure and improve the accuracy of your models. You will also learn essential data pre-processing techniques to ensure a robust Machine Learning… Read more: Interactive HPC-DK AI For Science GPU Bootcamp – October 13-14, 2021
Are you developing software or tools that are driven by research/engineering in either academia or industry? Need to network, share knowledge and experiences with your peers? Nordic-RSE invites everyone interested to join and shape the agenda of our lightweight get-together. The program will consist mainly of your contributions and we encourage you to submit a… Read more: Nordic-RSE online unconference – June 29-30, 2021
One Danish research group can get the unique opportunity to make their metadata machine actionable in a 2 x 1/2 day event – free of charge. The concept is developed by researchers for researchers. The aim of the M4M WS is to work practically on how to improve your metadata and make them machine-actionable, thus… Read more: Improve your research impact: Metadata for Machines Workshop
During the first wave of Covid-19 information decoupling could be observed in the flow of news media content. The corollary of the content alignment within and between news sources experienced by readers (i.e., all news transformed into Corona-news), was that the novelty of news content went down as media focused monotonically on the pandemic event.… Read more: When no news is bad news – Detection of negative events from news media content
ONLYOFFICE is a browser-based office suite for creating and editing text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Fully compatible with Microsoft Office formats, the interface supports a seamless user experience for those familiar with traditional desktop editors. Designed to support document work directly within the UCloud environment, ONLYOFFICE allows users to: The app provides core functionality through… Read more: New app: ONLYOFFICE Now Available on UCloud
In this video we will introduce the new UCloud Courses app – a tool for hosting and managing university courses on UCloud. Dr. Federica Lo Verso will walk you through the concept and background of the app.You’ll get a hands-on demonstration of how to access and use the tool, explore its integration with GitHub, and… Read more: Workshop recording: Introduction to hosting courses on UCloud
Indico is a robust open-source platform for event organization, archiving, and collaboration, ideal for managing conferences, workshops, and scientific meetings. Key features include: Indico has been implemented on UCloud and is ready for use by all UCloud users. For more details, visit UCloud docs for full documentation.
Developing your own UCloud course app using a newly developed template-based approach Join us for a hands-on workshop where we guide you through all the steps of developing a UCloud course app using our newly developed template-based approach. The concept involves having a dedicated app on UCloud for your university course that students can use… Read more: Workshop 11/6: UCloud Courses
Users of DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud can now access Apache Kafka, a high-performance event streaming platform designed for managing real-time data at scale. Kafka deployments on UCloud support multi-node configurations, enabling production-grade distributed logging, stream processing, data integration, and publish/subscribe messaging systems. Students and researchers can use Apache Kafka to collect, process, and analyse… Read more: New App: Apache Kafka
With growing demand for transcription/AI services on Interactive HPC – UCloud, Speech Analyzer has been added to the platform. Speech Analyzer is a specialised application built on top of Label Studio, optimised for dialogue analysis. It enables users to label, edit, and annotate speech transcriptions generated by the integrated Transcriber engine. It also allows you… Read more: New app: Speech Analyzer – A New AI Tool for Dialogue Analysis
Workshop recording from workshop featuring UCloud Introduction, Transcriber, Chat UI, and Label Studio
Join us for three new and free online workshops to explore how these tools can transform your work. Discover AI Applications on DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud Workshop 1: Transcribing and editing audio transcriptions with Transcriber and Speech Analyzer apps Date: 22 May 2025 Time: 13:00 – 15:00 (CET) Location: Online, via Zoom (link TBA)… Read more: Workshops on AI applications
Yesterday, we were at First Hotel Grand Odense for the first DeiC Interactive HPC workshop of 2025 It was time to give each other a status on the developments and work done since our last consortium workshop in Rebild Bakker in the fall of 2024. Key topics included: Thanks to the SDU eScience Center for… Read more: Interactive HPC Consortium workshop
Teachers mark your calendars for April 30! The DeiC Interactive HPC consortium partners have organised an online webinar about the newly developed concept of UCloud courses. The webinar is open to researchers from all Danish universities. If you already know that you would like to use UCloud for a course in the fall of 2025, now is… Read more: Webinar 30/4: Introduction to hosting courses on UCloud
The DeiC Interactive HPC consortium is thrilled to announce that the service, powered by the UCloud software, has reached another significant milestone: 15,000 users. This achievement underscores the service’s growing popularity and its pivotal role in advancing digital research through user-friendly supercomputing access. Since its inception, DeiC Interactive HPC has been dedicated to providing researchers… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC now has 15,000 Users
By Jasper Riis-Hansen and Line Ejby Sørensen, Center for Humanities Computing (CHC), Aarhus University DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud plays a central role in the Danish Foundation Models (DFM) project, which forms part of the Danish government’s strategic initiative for artificial intelligence. Danish Foundation Models (DFM) is supported by the Ministry of Digital Affairs as… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC Crucial for Danish AI Language Models
A new feature has been launched on the innovative UCloud platform, designed to provide a seamless and efficient learning experience for both educators and students. If you are teaching a course at a Danish University and would like to have a setup ready to use for students with all the necessary tools pre-installed and easy access to… Read more: Host university courses on UCloud
Join us for two free online workshops this December to explore how these tools can transform your work. Discover AI Applications on DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud Workshop 1: Introduction to AI Tools on DeiC Interactive HPC – UCloud Date: December 10th Time: 12:30–14:00 This beginner-friendly session will introduce you the basics of AI tools… Read more: Workshops on UCloud AI applications
With 10,000 users, DeiC Interactive HPC has established itself as one of Europe’s most popular HPC facilities, thanks to an unprecedented democratisation of access to advanced computing resources. These resources, once reserved for specialised research fields and technically adept specialists, are now accessible to any researcher with a dataset and a vision. Through a newly… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC Revolutionises Interdisciplinary Research with User-Friendly Supercomputing Access
DeiC Interactive HPC is excited to roll out the new User Interface on the UCloud platform, designed to simplify processes and enhance the user experience. The updated interface, serving 10,000 users (and growing), signifies the dedication to delivering an easy-to-use interface that provides researchers with access to advanced interactive computing power, along with comprehensive data… Read more: New UCloud User Interface
Denmark has marked a significant milestone in computational research with the addition of 16 NVIDIA H100 GPUs to the DeiC Interactive HPC service, and 16 more are expected by the end of the year. The tender for the acquisition of the GPUs was awarded to Lenovo. This addition signifies a big leap forward for Danish… Read more: Adding 16 NVIDIA H100 GPUs to the DeiC Interactive HPC service marks significant milestone in computational research
Streamline your workflow when using DeiC Interactive HPC Have you ever experienced delays due to high demand for computing resources on UCloud (DeiC Interactive HPC)? The key to faster access and reducing system strain is efficient resource management. Over-requesting can lead to unnecessary waiting because DeiC Interactive HPC operates by allocating resources to users as… Read more: No More Waiting for Resources
DeiC Interactive HPC has achieved another remarkable feat: it now has more than 9000 users! The graph shows the rapid and steady growth of the user base, which has tripled in just two years. More about this new milestone here
A few days ago, Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus Universitet had the pleasure of inviting Interactive HPC Consortium colleagues from CLAAUDIA, Aalborg Universitet and the SDU eScience Center to a workshop day at the wonderful Moesgaard Museum. “We have these collaborative workshops every six months to stay informed and improve the Interactive HPC service,… Read more: Interactive HPC Consortium workshop
The first national call for HPC resources H2-2024 is now open. As a researcher at a Danish university, you have various options for gaining access to computing power at both Danish and international HPC facilities. Deadline for application is 12. March. For more information, visit DeiCs website.
Recently two advanced quantum computing applications were deployed on DeiC Interactive HPC: the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform and the NVIDIA cuQuantum Appliance. These applications show the continuous commitment to offer cutting-edge technologies to the Interactive HPC users. “With these new applications, DeiC Interactive HPC is at the forefront of bringing quantum computing into practical, real-world… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC offers integration of advanced Quantum Computing Applications
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. Visit deic.dk to view video use case from the 2023 DeiC Conference
Interactive HPC hits another milestone: There are now more than 8000 users! This is an increase of 1000 users during less than 3 months! The activity on the platform has been sky-high during the past few weeks – possibly amplified by the many researchers who praised the platform and inspired others at the DeiC conference… Read more: Another milestone – 8000 users on DeiC Interactive HPC
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” neighbourhoods. Visit deic.dk to view video use case from the 2023 DeiC Conference
AI companies around the world are scrambling to get their hands on the latest and most powerful NVIDIA GPU called H100. The biggest costumers include OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. Now, 16 NVIDIA H100 GPUs have landed at SDU, ready to be integrated into the DeiC Interactive HPC system. With the arrival of 4 servers with 4… Read more: State-of-the-art GPUs for AI available through DeiC Interactive HPC
On Monday, December 4th, we are performing a major upgrade to UCloud’s infrastructure. This means that the system will be down for most of the day. Go to the SDU eScience Center news page for more information on the update.
Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights.From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing social media data, supercomputing offers unique opportunities to generate… Read more: Supercomputing for computational linguistics and (social) media data
What an accomplishment after less than 3 years of running the DeiC Interactive HPC service – there are now more than 7000 users on UCloud! And not only that – we are seeing an increase in the number of active users per quarter. Graph: the number of users on UCloud. UCloud has been used as… Read more: Interactive HPC reaches 7000 users
Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights.From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing social media data, supercomputing offers unique opportunities to generate… Read more: Utilizing agent-based models in archaeological data
Researchers at a Danish university have various options for gaining access to computing power at both Danish and international HPC facilities. Front office personnell, please inform your users that the fall call H1-2024 is now open for applications for access to the e-ressources. Information about the call is found on DeiC’s website.
Beyond TraditionUnveiling the Uses of Supercomputing in Humanities. Supercomputing has long been associated with areas such as physics, engineering, and data science. However, researchers in humanities at Aarhus University are increasingly turning to supercomputing allowing them to delve into unexplored territories and discover new insights. From analysing historical archives to simulating ancient civilizations to analysing… Read more: Creating a Grundtvig-artificial intelligence using HPC
DeiC Interactive HPC consisting of Aalborg University, Aarhus University, and University of Southern Denmark has been at the forefront of cloud and interactive high-performance computing in Denmark for several years. Their commitment to information security and compliance with international standards, including their ISO 27001 certifications, has been a key factor in their success. In fact,… Read more: Interactive HPC lives up to highest international standards with ISO 27001
One minute! That’s how long it took to set up the new SSH access to DeiC Interactive HPC applications. If SSH is of interest to you, you probably know that DeiC Interactive HPC applications have recently experienced limitations in providing a reliable and scalable solution for accessing their services using Secure Shell Protocol (SSH). The… Read more: New way to use SSH for accessing apps on Interactive HPC
Recently, the DeiC Interactive HPC consortium (which consists of Aarhus University, Aalborg University and the University of Southern Denmark) posted a news story about the user overload on the service. This is an issue arising from the very positive fact that the popularity of the DeiC Interactive HPC service is increasing, but it also has… Read more: New milestone as DeiC Interactive HPC reaches 6,000 users
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 rapid success also comes… Read more: The cost of success – user overload on DeiC Interactive HPC
Since the DeiC HPC services started in November 2020, a consortium of universities (AU, DTU and SDU) has been working hard to finish the ambitious development of the DeiC Integration Portal. The vision of the DeiC Integration Portal is to provide a national solution to access all the DeiC HPC systems and future DeiC services under one common portal. After two years… Read more: Launch of the DeiC Integration Portal
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With this call DeiC invites applications from scientific staff and students at the eight Danish universities for allocation of compute resources on the national HPC facilities. The call is open to all scientific areas. Call H2-2023 is the second call for application on compute resources on the national e-resources. The second call is an open… Read more: H2-2023 Call for national HPC resources is now open
On Saturday, December 3rd, DeiC Interactive HPC reached 5000 users. This means that in the past three months, DeiC Interactive HPC has had 1000 new users. We’re very proud of the platform’s succes. Since the National HPC services began in November 2020, it has been evident that DeiC Interactive HPC via the platform UCloud has… Read more: Interactive HPC reaches 5000 users
Though supercomputers form the key basis of his research, UCloud has been a valuable, complementary tool for Tobias and his colleagues and will most likely continue to be so in future work as well. Post.doc. Tobias Tsang works within the broader research field of theoretical particle physics. As part of the Centre for Cosmology and… Read more: UCloud as a complementary HPC tool within theoretical particle physics
UCloud is not just an ideal platform for the individual researcher who wants interactive access to HPC resources or an easy way to collaborate with national or international partners. It is also highly suitable for teaching. Jennifer Bartell and Samuele Soraggi, who are both working on the project National Health Data Science Sandbox for Training… Read more: National Health Data Science Sandbox for Training and Research
We’re approaching the end of the second year with DeiC Interactive HPC – and there are now 4000 users on UCloud! During the first year with DeiC Interactive HPC, UCloud reached more than 2000 users. We’re glad that the interest in the platform has continued to grow throughout the second year. Go to SDU eScience… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC reaches 4.000 users on UCloud
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 unnecessary technical issues, allowing teachers as… Read more: Teaching Humanities in UCloud
Since we discontinued our support for mounting your local folders onto UCloud using WebDAV, have we been in search of a way to allow the users of UCloud to work with their files locally without having to re-upload them to UCloud after every change. We are happy to announce that we now have a new… Read more: New UCloud release
As a researcher or Ph.d. Student at a Danish university you can now apply for resources on the national HPC centers, including the Danish part of EuroHPC LUMI. The second call for applications for regular access to resources on the national HPC centers is now open. This includes applications for the Danish part of EuroHPC… Read more: Call for applications for National HPC resources
Nu er der åbnet for tilmeldingen til årets DeiC konference med fokus på modenhed og tilpasning. Konferencens hovedtema er ”Alignment and Maturity: Implementing Research Infrastructure Solutions”. Programmet er inddelt i fire spor: Data management, supercomputing (HPC), net og tjenester, samt sikkerhed. Inden for hvert spor vil der blive fokuseret på ’maturity’ og ’alignment’, samt strategier til løsninger på… Read more: Tilmeldingen til DeiC konference 2022 er åben
On May 10th, the SDU eScience Center was visited by colleagues from Aarhus University and Aalborg University for a Back Office workshop in the DeiC Interactive HPC consortium. The DeiC Interactive HPC Back Office collaborates on the development and operation of the facility. The overall topic of the workshop was “Developing UCloud apps” and discussion points… Read more: DeiC Interactive HPC Back Office workshop
“I believe that when combining digital methods with the humanities, a lot of really great research can be done.” Phillip Stenmann Baun, Aarhus University Ph.d. student at the Department of Global Studies (Aarhus University), Phillip Stenmann Baun, has a background in History and is now working within the interdisciplinary field of memory studies and digital… Read more: Examining far-right memory practices by use of digital methods
By the end of 2021, students and staff interested in digital methods, data wrangling, text and data mining from Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen were once again invited to join the annually recurring datasprint organised by The University Libraries at The Royal Danish Library (Det Kgl. Bibliotek). With the purpose of developing competencies within… Read more: Participant reflections on data(Tinget) and using UCloud
For the majority of researchers and students of the humanities, digital methods are far from standard procedure, and this is exactly what initiatives such as the datasprints organised and financed by The Royal Danish Library hope to change. The value of digital methods in the humanities is gradually becoming clearer across disciplines. However, as programming… Read more: Organizer reflections on data(Tinget) and using UCloud
(…)In 2019, senior researcher Ejnar Stig Askgaard from Odense City Museums began comparing Hans Christian Andersen’s notes, written between approximately 1833 – 1875, with the 162 fairy tales, novels and autobiographies. This had led to the discovery that Hans Christian Andersen liked to use symbols such as cross marks or deletions in his notes to indicate that the note had been reused in his… Read more: Detecting text reuse in H.C. Andersen’s work
Researchers within the field of humanities are typically not heavy users of HPC (High Performance Computing) or cloud computing. However, a book, once digitalized, is actually quite a big data set. Assistant Professor at the department of Design and Communication, Zhiru Sun, tells us how she has been helping researchers from the Faculty of Humanities… Read more: Digital Humanities
Monday the 31st of January the partnering Universities (AU, AAU, and SDU) met up for a workshop to take stock on the first year with UCloud – DeiC Interactive HPC. One year of Interactive HPC One year after going live, the effect and esteem of UCloud across national users can be (partly) analysed, and with… Read more: One-year-in workshop – Status of DeiC Interactive HPC, UCloud
On the 1st of February, a new and improved experience for virtual machines was launched on the UCloud platform. This means that launching a virtual machine will only take a few seconds. Previously, UCloud users had to wait a few business days before a virtual machine could be created due to a manual step in… Read more: Faster startup times for Virtual Machines
In November 2020, the Danish universities coordinated by DeiC committed to working closely together to provide a joint platform to access all the DeiC national services such as the national HPC facilities. The project known as DeiC Project 5 will create the National Integration Portal based on the UCloud software infrastructure. As part of the… Read more: Major UCloud update
Er du forsker eller Ph.d.-studerende ved et dansk universitet kan du nu søge om adgang til regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg, inklusiv den danske del af EuroHPC LUMI. Opslaget er åbent for alle forskningsområder. Der er åbent for ansøgninger om adgang til regneressourcer på de nationale HPC-anlæg. Det gælder også den danske del af EuroHPC… Read more: Første kald om regnetid på de nationale HPC-anlæg er nu åbent
Professor (WSR) Oliver Baumann from the Department of Business & Management at SDU tells us how he uses supercomputing for his research and gives us his take on how researchers from social sciences, who are beginning to reach a limit with their own computers, can benefit from Interactive HPC. In a current project, Baumann collaborates… Read more: HPC and Social Sciences
New webinar on Teaching through UCloud The webinar aims to show how to utilize UCloud in terms of resources for students and teachers. In particular examples related to project management, software ready to use, assistance in the teacher and student workflows will be discussed. View the one hour recorded webinar and Q&A from webinar chat.
A new set of Danish deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) was trained in UCloud. Danish NLP has in recent years obtained considerable improvements with the addition of multiple new datasets and models. However, at present, there is no coherent framework for applying state-of-the-art models for Danish. We present DaCy: a unified framework… Read more: DaCy: A Unified Framework for Danish NLP
Learn how to apply AI tools, techniques and algorithms to real-life problems. You will study the core concepts of Deep Neural Networks, how to build Deep Learning models as well as how to measure and improve the accuracy of your models. You will also learn essential data pre-processing techniques to ensure a robust Machine Learning… Read more: Interactive HPC-DK AI For Science GPU Bootcamp – October 13-14, 2021
Are you developing software or tools that are driven by research/engineering in either academia or industry? Need to network, share knowledge and experiences with your peers? Nordic-RSE invites everyone interested to join and shape the agenda of our lightweight get-together. The program will consist mainly of your contributions and we encourage you to submit a… Read more: Nordic-RSE online unconference – June 29-30, 2021
One Danish research group can get the unique opportunity to make their metadata machine actionable in a 2 x 1/2 day event – free of charge. The concept is developed by researchers for researchers. The aim of the M4M WS is to work practically on how to improve your metadata and make them machine-actionable, thus… Read more: Improve your research impact: Metadata for Machines Workshop
During the first wave of Covid-19 information decoupling could be observed in the flow of news media content. The corollary of the content alignment within and between news sources experienced by readers (i.e., all news transformed into Corona-news), was that the novelty of news content went down as media focused monotonically on the pandemic event.… Read more: When no news is bad news – Detection of negative events from news media content
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