USING supercomputers that can be as much as 12,500,000 times more powerful than the average laptop is a complicated process.
But French Msc research student Ludovic Capelli is working on a new computer model that he hopes will give more people, even if they are not experts, the chance to tap into the potential of supercomputers in future.
His work is connected to the use of parallel computing where many calculations can be carried out simultaneously to solve large problems more quickly.
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The 24-year-old who is studying at Edinburgh University first came across an academic from Scotland at the Pierre Mendès-France University in Grenoble during a week where all lessons were delivered in English.
A computing teacher from Edinburgh Napier made such an impression on him that he decided to study in Scotland and he secured a first class honours in computing science at Edinburgh Napier University. He then moved to Edinburgh University to do his Msc.
"I started programming when I was 13 and I just loved it. Maths was a strength already it is closely related to computing science. It was clean and clear and I really liked it. Other students were not always rigorous at school, but with programming it was very rigorous and you have to do things in the right way which I liked.
"If you want to find a solution you have to understand the problem and you have to understand every single step in the solution to reach that answer. If you get it wrong at any stage it won't give you the right answer and it might even crash your programme."
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He said was a fantastic opportunity to come to Scotland and that he had really enjoyed living here.
"On my first day I took the bus to the Edinburgh Napier campus and I had no idea where to go, but the bus driver could see I was confused and showed me the right way. This is something that would never happen in France.
"Scotland is such a friendly place and I have settled really well here, but also there was something about the teaching style that I have experienced in Scotland that just clicked with me. The way they teach here is the way I love to learn."
Ludovic said the process of moving to Scotland to live and study had been made much easier by the dual membership of the EU.
"I would say that when the UK leaves the EU then someone in future who wants to follow the same path that I have taken would find it much more difficult.
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"I have been funded to do the work that I am involved with and that has been really important. We have a lot to lose if the relationships that currently exist between universities across Europe are not allowed to continue in the same way as before.
"The EU has given me chances in life and it would be very sad to think that in the future those same chances would not be available."
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