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Nov 12, 2024 • 38min

[FR] Le calcul quantique à GENCI - Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois

Send us a textL'édition française:  On a beaucoup de promesse sur l'usage du calcul quantique. Ghislain Vaillant discute avec Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois de GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif) pour jeter un coup d'œil aux coulisses de cette technologie fascinante. https://www.genci.fr/connaitre-genci/calcul-haute-performance-intelligence-artificielle-et-calcul-quantiquehttps://www.genci.fr/actualites/france-hybrid-hpc-quantum-initiative-hqi-genci-et-le-cea-annoncent-la-selection-de-0Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Nov 5, 2024 • 34min

[EN] Champions for Change in research: Imperial College London and Cambridge University

Send us a textEnglish Edition [EN]: In this episode I am looking at two different champion schemes: one at Imperial College London, focussing on research software and the other at Cambridge University for research data. My guests are Jeremy Cohen and Mike Bearpark from Imperial and Clair Castle, Sacha Jones and Lutfi Ben Othman from Cambridge University. Imperial:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/call-for-rs-champions-2024/ Champion scheme at Imperialhttps://www.ukri.org/news/new-funding-to-support-research-technical-professionals/ UKRI fundinghttps://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/m.bearpark Profile Mike Bearparkhttps://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/jeremy.cohen Profile Jeremy CohenCambridgehttps://www.data.cam.ac.uk/ The data home page https://www.data.cam.ac.uk/intro-data-champions Introduction to the Champion scheme at Cambridge https://www.data.cam.ac.uk/research-data-management-team the Research Data Management team at Cambridge University Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Oct 29, 2024 • 34min

[DE] Suresoft, ein Projekt zur Nachhaltigkeit - mit Jan Linxweiler

Send us a textDeutsche Ausgabe: Diesmal geht es an die TU Braunschweig, von wo aus Jan Linxweiler uns über seine Arbeit am Suresoft Projekt erzählt - und uns erklärt warum es wichtig ist, nachhaltige Software für die Wissenschaft zu schreiben.Linkshttps://suresoft.dev Die Homepage des Suresoft Projekteshttps://zenodo.org/communities/suresoft/ Suresoft on Zenodo https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-202210121528-0 Suresoft Konzept Papierhttps://www.dfg.de/de Homepage der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschafthttps://www.tu-braunschweig.de Die TU Braunschweighttps://www.fau.de die Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberghttps://de-rse.org/de/index.html der deRSE e.V. - Verein der EntwicklerInnen von ForschungssoftwareSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Oct 21, 2024 • 35min

[EN] Let there be LUMI (EuroHPC supercomputer) - Kurt Lust

Send us a textEnglish edition: My guest this week is Kurt Lust from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and part of the user support team of LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure). Acc to the website, LUMI is Europe's fastest supercomputer. Kurt tells us what it takes to run a machine like that and all the gotchas that he and his colleagues encounter.Linkshttps://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/about-lumi/ LUMI website (About) https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/index_en EuroHPC Joint Undertaking sitehttps://klust.github.io Kurt Lust on GitHubSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Oct 14, 2024 • 34min

[EN] HPC software installations made EESSI - Alan O'Cais and Kenneth Hoste

Alan O'Cais and Kenneth Hoste, experts in high-performance computing, delve into the European Environment for Scientific Software Installation (EESSI). They discuss the evolution and impact of EasyBuild on managing software complexities in HPC. The conversation touches on the CERN Virtual Machine File System's role in efficient software distribution and collaborative efforts that emerged during the pandemic. They also explore the challenges of sustaining open-source projects and the community-driven approach that enhances user support in scientific environments.
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Oct 7, 2024 • 40min

[FR] Analyse automatique d’articles encyclopédiques - Alice Brenon (GEODE)

Send us a textL'édition française: Alice Brenon est une doctorande et chercheuse du CNRS en informatique linguistique au LIRIS (Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information) à Lyon. Alice décrit son engagement dans le projet GEODE (“Encyclopedic GEOgraphical DiscoursE: Writing about Geography in France from the Enlightenment to the Age of Wikipedia”). Dans ce cadre, elle a développé plusieurs outils logiciels dont certains sont en Haskell. Nous vous souhaitons une bonne écoute.Lienshttps://perso.liris.cnrs.fr/abrenon/ Alice Brenonhttps://liris.cnrs.fr/these/these-alice-brenonhttps://gitlab.inria.fr/abrenon/soprano/https://geode-project.github.io projet Géode sur GitHubhttps://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/content/sha1_git:5675074b84f915278fc2137190bdc44d514a6740/?origin_url=https://gitlab.inria.fr/abrenon/soprano/&path=LICENSE https://www.collexpersee.eu/projet/disco-lge/ https://guix.gnu.org projet GUIXhttps://www.haskell.org Haskell langage de programmation  https://editions-rnti.fr/?inprocid=1002717 Classification automatique d'articles encyclopédiques Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Sep 30, 2024 • 39min

[EN] Championing Research Software Part 1: Champions at Imperial College London

Send us a textMeet 6 of the research software champions at Imperial College London (UK) who help to create better research - through better software: Alan Xavier, Lukas Kopecky, Jakub Lala, Benjamin Scharpf, Sara Patti and Sneha Jha. Linkshttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/call-for-rs-champions-2024/ The call for the 2024 champion scheme cohorthttps://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/rs-community-newsletters/2024-03.html The newsletter announcing the championshiphttps://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/ The RSE group at Imperial Collegehttps://www.ukri.org/news/new-funding-to-support-research-technical-professionals/ UKRI initiative to nurture research technical professionalshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14703297.2023.2237943#abstract An article about the size of doctoral programmes at UK academic institutions in the year 2020-2021My thanks go to Imperial College London (UK) for supporting this episode and this podcast.  Support the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Sep 25, 2024 • 48min

[EN] BONUS: Green Computing at the RSE Conference 2024 in Newcastle

Send us a text[EN] English Edition: "Green computing" had a strong showing at the annual conference for Research Software Engineering in Newcastle, UK, early September 2024. I talk to the presenters, poster creator and organisers of the birds of the feather session on the subject. In addition you hear from Charlotte Pascoe and Poppy Townsend from the UKRI on their project to get us to net zero. And finally, from the platinum sponsor of the conference: CloudKubed https://www.cloudkubed.com. Also note https://eng.ox.ac.uk/netdrive/ from UKRI, who work towards a sustainable, digital research infrastructure. Links:https://rsecon24.society-rse.org RSE Conference 2024 sitehttps://www.green-algorithms.org Green Algorithms home pagehttps://codecarbon.io Code Carbon libraryhttps://github.com/GreenScheduler/cats CATS schedulerhttps://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?SUBED1=GREENRESEARCHSOFTWARE mailing list for the Special Interest Group (SIG) on greener computinghttps://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk The UKRI net zero for the digital research infrastructure projecthttps://zenodo.org/records/8199984 The report on the scoping project UKRI - Net Zero for Digital Research Infrastructurehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-023-00461-y.epdf GREENER principles for computing articlehttps://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00188-4 Estimating the contribution from ICT re greenhouse gas emissionshttps://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/transport/reducing-emissions-aviation_en The EU report on emissions from the transport sectorhttps://app.electricitymaps.com/map Electricity mapshttps://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-are-scope-1-2-3-carbon-emissions explaining scope 1,2,3 emissionshttps://ghgprotocol.org the Greenhouse Gas protocolSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Sep 23, 2024 • 32min

[DE] Stahlwalzungen, Kristalle und Offene Software - mit Ralf Hielscher und Christoph Renzing

Send us a textDeutsche Ausgabe: in der ersten DE Ausgabe nach der Sommerpause geht es gleich um 2 Open Source Projekte: MTEX und PyRolL. Mit von der Partie sind die Entwickler und Autoren der Softwarepakete Ralf Hielscher (MTEX) und Christoph Renzing (PyRolL), beide von der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Sachsen.Links:https://mtex-toolbox.github.io MTEX https://tu-freiberg.de/en/node/2702/prof-dr-rer-nat-ralf-hielscher Prof Ralf Hielscher, TU Freiberghttps://github.com/pyroll-project PyRolL auf GitHubhttps://pyroll.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Dokumentationhttps://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.06200 PyRolL bei dem Journal for Open Source Software (JOSS)https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-renzing-584077214/ Christoph Renzinghttps://tu-freiberg.de Homepage der TU/Bergakademie Freiberghttps://www.freiberg.de/stadt-und-buerger/stadt/stadtportrait/geschichte-chronik etwas zur Geschichte von FreibergSupport the showThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Sep 16, 2024 • 33min

[EN] Going Large - CERN VM/VMFS - Laura Promberger, Jakob Blomer

Laura Promberger and Jakob Blomer, key players in CERN's VM/VMFS project, discuss revolutionary advancements in data management for scientific research. They unveil how CVMFS is crucial for handling vast amounts of data from the LHC and beyond. The conversation highlights innovations like parallel decompression and data deduplication, ensuring efficient access to software in high-performance computing. They also explore secure external access challenges and the evolving collaboration within the global HPC community.

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