Month: October 2021

Rikky Wenang Purbojati, Research Computing, NUS Information Technology, on 13 October 2021

Much has been said about the convergence of HPC and AI in recent years. However, the emergence of the Covid19 pandemic had possibly kicked the convergence and its translational application into full gear. HPC-AI technology has been involved in every step of humanity’s effort to answer the most critical global challenge yet, climate change notwithstanding. While the long-term impact and trajectory remains to be seen, it is undeniable that the advances in computing technologies (and other scientific fields) have allowed the responses to be swift and laser-focused.

Ku Wee Kiat, Research Computing, NUS Information Technology, on 13 October 2021

Do you ever have the need to extract text from article scans, or data from invoices/receipts? Are you dealing with small tabular datasets with sensitive information that requires more data? Do you have a low-resolution or poor-quality image but want something of a higher quality or resolution? In this article, we will look at some Python-based AI-aided tools and libraries that might be useful for your research

Kuang Hao, Research Computing, NUS Information Technology, on 13 October 2021

Working with an enormous amount of textual data is always hectic and time-consuming. Hence many companies and organizations make use of Information Extraction (IE) techniques to automate the process. Information Extraction is the task of automatically extracting structured information from unstructured documents. In most of the cases, this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language processing (NLP). In this article, we will introduce common subtasks in information extraction and how to make use of opensource tools for those tasks.

Kumar Sambhav, Research Computing, NUS Information Technology, on 13 October 2021

Some of the most effort-intensive tasks within the financial services and applications have been managing assets, evaluating levels of risk, calculating credit scores, and even approving loans. The amount of data that has to be scoured, read and understood is humongous and humanly impossible and even if it is done with extensive care, it might not fetch proper results. Machine Learning models thus come in handy for such tasks as, instead of us humans doing the processing, we let computer programs handle it for us.

Wang Junhong, Research Computing, NUS Information Technology, on 13 October 2021

The software hosting service allows researchers to host licensed software and tools in the central HPC-AI system. This enables the users to have some flexibility when it comes to having large and long simulations performed within the high-performance computing facilities. It also improves productivity by supporting more simulations which could be executed concurrently by all eligible team members.

Yeo Eng Hee, Research Computing, NUS Information Technology, on 13 October 2021

There is a long list of application software that are currently installed in our HPC-AI systems. As our user base grows, we see a potential issue in keeping up with the growing number of software that our users need. One solution is to let the users bring in their own applications and run it in our HPC-AI clusters and a way to do this in a consistent manner is to use containers.