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Recent posts

Using GPUs in an HPC setting

6 minute read

Whenever I’ve seen instructions on how to use a GPU on an HPC cluster, it almost always just tells you to use the --gres flag, and then not much else. Maybe ...

Most aren’t even useful

2 minute read

I love the quotation “All models are wrong. Some are useful”. I like to whisper it to myself before I fall asleep. Sometimes I say it enouragingly to the R c...

How to learn industry things as an academic

4 minute read

This is the blog equivalent of a William present, so-named after Just William, wherein you give someone a gift so that you can play with it yourself. This is...

Memory requests in HPC systems

3 minute read

I recently had to move a lot of individual scripts, including their SLURM submission scripts, into a snakemake workflow. In doing so I found that when snakem...