Welcome to academic year 2025
I have had a very busy summer working on the lab, needless to say i’ll be making a posting about that in due course. I’ve already had my first meeting with my supervisors for the start of term. There is alot happening ! My first formal post graduate review will happen this term, and I’m […]
End of June Updates !
Here we are, the end of June and so much progress, not much blogging.. still heres a succient update. Research Ethical Approval As a post graduate researcher I have to ensure my research is ethical and approved by the University. Bournemouth university provide an extensive ethics checks list to which I have to review and […]
Self-Hosting Overleaf Community Edition
In this blog posting I show you how to use Overleaf Community Edition and store the resulting container on on self-hosted gitlab. I used to use Bangors Overleaf to write my Masters thesis, but Bournemouth (as of March 2025) didnt have a overleaf server available. I found quickly that the free overleaf server online gives […]
The move to Bournemouth from Bangor
I have at last completed my enrolment at Bournemouth University for my Part-Time Phd. As Post Graduate Researcher (PGR) we dont have a set ‘time table’ like Master students – its left to us and our supervisors to arrange those meetings. Before I go there I’ll go thru my first week at Bournemouth University. Ahead […]
Adding a 2nd P40
Having already added a 2nd P100 to the other GPU server, it was time to maximize the 2nd R720 empty PCI slot and add a 2nd P40. This GPU whilst old, still does pretty well, the main thing for me the amount of available NVRAM to work on larger models – now a combined 48G […]
OmniGen: Unified Image Generation
So I’ve been doing lots of other stuff between now and the last posting (lab reorg, server rebuilds, new tech), but I’ll cover those in another post when I can put them all together nicely! I thought I’d make a short but nethertheless interesting post on a new AI platform for image generation. I have […]
COG Video
As I’ve recently been using AI for generating static graphics via Stable Diffusion, I was interested to see if my setup could also generate video. As I’m running older series of GPU’s (Telsa P100 & P40), this might be a limitation on both memory and CUDA capability version. I searched methods and found ‘Cog video‘ […]
A bit of a ‘play’ time
So having physically built my GPU server, I wanted to test it out. One of the things I’ve not been able to do before is graphical machine learning, such as converting text to images, with the additional resources, I’d give it a go. I searched around and found an excellent tutorial by Daniel, I followed […]
Building a GPU Server for a home-lab
When I was completing my masters thesis, I used EC2 Machine p3 instances along side my ‘on prem’ devices. As I was moving various code/models all the time these instances where on, the bills where racking up – sure it was great to have such powerful GPU’s on demand and I could easily setup EKS […]
HistoCrypt 2024 – Oxford and Bletchley
HistoCrypt 2024 was held in Oxford and then on the final day a tour of Bletchley. I had been fortunate enough to book my tickets earlier in the year, and it came as no surprise that this years HistoCrypt was breaking records on attendance, submissions and posters. Also the weather was exceptionally good, allowing for […]