We meet on Wednesdays and Fridays 4pm - 5pm. To find out our schedule (which is usually decided at the last minute), join the mailing list cup-people@infREMOVE_THIS.

Rooms

Past Readings

We tend to focus on PhD-level tutorial style readings, e.g., we have read the Boyd and Vandenberghe book on convex optimization and Wasserman's "All of Statistics" books.

Future Readings

• Autumn 2014: CupsPotentialReadingListAutumn2014
• Autumn 2013: CupsPotentialReadingListAutumn2013

Computational Resources

There are several compute servers available for Charles's students. At the moment these are

• cup01 (alias: mug): dual processor Xeon (circa 2012), 8 cores, 64 GB RAM, 2TB disk
• cup02 (alias: demitasse): dual processor Xeon (circa 2012), 8 cores, 64 GB RAM, 2TB disk
• cup03 (alias: saucer): dual processor Xeon (circa 2012), 8 cores, 64 GB RAM, 2TB disk
• cup04 : dual processor Xeon (2014), 12 cores, 64 GB RAM, 1.8TB disk

Also check out the ML computational resources, ANC computational resources, and ECDF.

GPUs include

• pug02 : 4x TITANS : for CUP only, circa 2017
• pug01 : 4x TITANS : for CUP only, circa 2015
• stonesoup : 4x TESLA : for all ANC
• melmac : 4x GTX 980 : for all ANC
• roswell : really old. 2x GTX 480 (???)

We also have 2TB of mirrored (not backed up) space at

/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/group/cup/data1

/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/group/cup/data2

Please create a subdirectory for yourself if you would like to use this.