Why R? Webinar 011 - Using R with High Performance Tools on a Windows Laptop

Financed by the 'Perfect Science' program of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education

• speaker: Erin Hodgess

• topic: Using R with High Performance Tools on a Windows Laptop

• stream https://youtu.be/vPDDpwGfvLc

• Bio + Abstract: To be added soon!

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• format: one 45 minutes long stream + 10 minutes for Q&A

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# Abstract of the talk

We will discuss a geostatistics project which uses many of our high performance computing tools. We will be working with Fortran with Message Passing Interface, and OpenACC. We will see how these tools
bring about extensive speed up, along with enhanced capabilities. We will show how we can analyze 9 years of daily data from the Irish wind data set in 35 minutes, which includes inverting a 39400 x 39400
matrix. The second part of the talk will discuss how to use these tools, including setup, and some simple examples. We will look at some simple programs in MPI and OpenACC.

# About the speaker

Dr. Erin Hodgess is a course instructor at Western Governors University. She teaches mathematics and statistics courses. Prior to this, she taught at the University of Houston – Downtown. Her research interests include time series, geostatistics, and statistical computing.