CSC has a new cloud platform called Rahti. It is based on OpenShift - Red Hat's distribution of Kubernetes. It is a generic cloud platform that is suitable for a wide range of use cases from hosting web sites to scientific applications. What differentiates it from previous cloud platforms such as CSC's cPouta is the ease with which applications can be managed, scaled up and made fault...
We will provide an introduction to the application of Artificial
Neural Networks to a variety of tasks in Natural Language Processing
(NLP), i.e. enabling computers to ‘make sense’ of human language. The
tutorial will cover example problems in document classification,
sentiment analysis, and sequence labeling; we will introduce common
architecture variants, such as deep feed-forward...
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Linux containers, with the build-once-run-anywhere approach, are becoming popular among scientific communities for software packaging and sharing. Docker is the most popular and user friendly platform for running and managing Linux containers. Singularity is a platform for deploying light-weight containers for HPC systems. Kubernetes is a portable orchestration system for managing...