English Edition: In a follow up about "unusual" computers I want to focus on field programmable gate arrays - FPGAs. With my guest and former colleague at UCL, Michael McLeod, we talk about what they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them. Links: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_descript...
Erschienen: 05.05.2026
Dauer: 00:31:14
Deutsche Ausgabe: ICON, das große Software Paket für Klimamodellierung, Wettervorhersagen und andere Anwendungsbereiche, ist auf gutem Wege Open Source Software zu werden. Aber daß das nicht immer ganz so leicht ist, werden uns in dieser Folge Hendryk Bockelmann und Jan (Jeff) Frederik Engels vom Deutschen Klimarechenzentrum und Linda Schlemmer vom Deutschen Wetterdienst erzählen. Hier ein paar Links: https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/news-archive/icon-open-source https://www.ic...
Erschienen: 28.04.2026
Dauer: 00:39:19
English Edition: preserving digital data has become essential for archives and libraries, as we have seen an explosion of content. I met with various experts in the field who talk to me about the different aspects and facets of saving our data for future generations to come: Thomas Ries (University of Austin, Texas, US), Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Katie Mackinnon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Andy Jackson (Digital Preservation Coalition, UK) and Laurisa Sastoque Pabon (University o...
Erschienen: 21.04.2026
Dauer: 01:00:50
English Edition: Say hi to the new fellows of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) - Anne-Lee Steele, Cass Gould van Praag, Samantha Ahern and Sara Villa. In this episode they tell us all about the plans for their fellowship. And it covers a wide range, as you will hear. Links: https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/anne-lee-steele Anne-Leehttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/cassandra-gould-van-praag Casshttps://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/samantha-aher...
Erschienen: 14.04.2026
Dauer: 00:48:09
Deutsche Ausgabe: In dieser Folge machen wir uns auf die Suche nach dunkler Materie - mit dem ALPS II Experiment am Deutschen Elektron Synchroton in Hamburg. Mit meinen Gästen Axel Lindner und Sven Karstensen tauchen wir in die Welt der Axionen, mysteriöse Teilchen, und wie man sie aufspüren kann. Daneben gibt es, wie immer in der Teilchenphysik, spannende Fragen zu Software und Datenaufarbeitung. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Links: https://alps.desy.de/ Die Home Page des ALPS Projektsh...
Erschienen: 07.04.2026
Dauer: 00:42:05
English Edition: how are real numbers e.g. 0.1 represented on computers? What can go wrong with using their representation in calculations? And does it matter? These and other questions are the subject of this ByteSized episode with my guests Prof. Ulrich Ruede (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg), Andreas Herten and Edoardo di Napoli (both Research Centre Juelich). Links: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html an online tool to convert numbers into their bit/hex equi...
Erschienen: 31.03.2026
Dauer: 00:40:30
English Edition: for this episode we're going "up North", to visit the Research Software Engineering team of the University of Newcastle. The team has been hosting the UK RSE Conference in 2022 and 2024 and here is a chance to meet at least some of the people behind it all. Links: https://rse.ncldata.dev/ Team homepagehttps://rse.ncldata.dev/team https://www.litandphil.org.uk/ oh and the great "Lit and Phil" library in Newcastle for good measure Get in touch Thank ...
Erschienen: 24.03.2026
Dauer: 00:57:55
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English Edition: NextBrain is a next generation atlas of the human brain. Juan Eugenio Iglesias Gonzales from Massachusetts General in Boston, US, has been leading this project. My colleague James Hughes (University College London) and I were working on part of it at the time. And in this episode we explore, once again, what NextBrain is, how it evolved using AI tools in a shifting technology landscape and how it can be used in education and research. Links https://www.nature.com/a...
Erschienen: 17.03.2026
Dauer: 00:48:22
English Edition: Meet Thomas White from DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) who is the creator and maintainer of the tool CrystFEL. The tool to help understand and analyse the structure of materials such as crystals and proteins. Thomas and I dive into the details of the science and experimental setup - and, of course, the software tool he created. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_diffraction https://www.cfel.de https://www.desy.de/~twhite/crystfel/ https://...
Erschienen: 10.03.2026
Dauer: 00:40:09
English Edition (ByteSized): In this first episode of the new ByteSized dRTP season, sponsored by the STEP-UP programme from the EPSRC (UK) you'll meet Richard Acton. Richard created a tool to help you keep track of all the steps you should take to make your software shareable and reproducible. With checklists, built right into your GitLab, GitHub repo. Links https://rsspdc.org/ home page for the checklistshttps://rsspdc.gitlab.io/slides/bytesize-workshop_2026-02-26.html#/outline&n...
Erschienen: 03.03.2026
Dauer: 00:32:09
