August roundup – where has the eScience Center been this month?
The eScience Center has been actively engaging with the scientific community through various events and conferences, showcasing the impact we make through the application of research software. Check out what we’ve been up to this month!
Did you catch us at the Lowlands Festival?
The PORN-TYPES project, which studies the stereotypes in online pornography, held a socio-cultural experiment at the Lowlands Festival earlier this month. Attendees had the opportunity to take part in two different activities. One where they sorted titles of pornographic videos according to their preferences. A second activity where they were able to speak to a ‘porn-priest’ in a ‘pornfessional’. RSE Olga Lyashevska reported that participants most enjoyed speaking to the ‘porn-priest’ who communicated with them via a microphone and noise-cancelling headphones from inside a booth where both party’s identities were concealed. There was a ‘continuous line throughout the entire festival’ with a participant list of approximately 210 people, the maximum they could study.
Photos by Maurits Kortenbout
Euro-Par24 in sunny Madrid
Earlier this month, RSE Stijn Heldens attended Euro-Par24 (the International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing) in Madrid. He presented work on the auto-tuning of HIP code using Kernel Tuner comparing the tuning difficulty, impact and portability between Nvidia and AMD GPUs. Curious to learn more? Here is a paper published on the topic:
Bringing Auto-tuning to HIP: Analysis of Tuning Impact and Difficulty on AMD and Nvidia GPUs
Going Greek at MIE
In August, Djura Smits, Cunliang Geng, Héctor Fabio Cadavid Rengifo and Walter Baccinelli attended the MIE conference in Athens, the largest conference on medical informatics in Europe. Djura and Walter presented a demo on ‘Empowering Privacy-Preserving Research: Introducing the vantage6 Framework and GUI’, which led to positive discussions among participants. Hector presented a paper titled, ‘Leveraging FHIR in Federated Learning Environments: A Data Harmonization Framework for Cohort Studies’ as part of the MyDigiTwin project. Cunliang and Hector also presented their work ‘Beyond Docker: Enhancing vantage6 with Kubernetes for Federated Learning’. The paper can be found here: https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/SHTI240729
Who are we?
The eScience Center is a research organization dedicated to applying research software to answer research questions in any scientific domain through project collaborations. It has the largest concentration of dedicated, high-level research software expertise in the Netherlands. The eScience Center also has a Fellowship Programme and makes all of its software and training materials openly available online. For more information about what we offer, visit esciencecenter.nl.