Slingshot Simulations joins International Digital Twins Consortium

As of May 2020, Slingshot Simulations joins the Digital Twin Consortium as one of first UK members. This is in line with our vision to set a Internet of Simulation standard for improving interoperability between digital twin technologies. We’re so excited about joining the Digital Twin Consortium. It allows us to be at the forefront […]

The Role of Simulation in Decision Making

Last Week The last couple of articles in our Digital Twins Series have looked at the role of Digital Twins & Decision-Making for the benefit of our communities; whether that be as a virtual testbed for urban development or a Digital Platform for combining multiple data sources from all across a city. Part 1 and […]

Digital Twins & Decision-Making: Urban Regeneration

Plan with confidence: How Digital Twins can improve lives using fewer of our limited resources Exploring how Digital Twins can breathe new life into urban areas without wasting money, time and materials. What are the consequences if we don’t get Urban Regeneration right? Can Digital Twins increase that likelihood of making impactful decisions the first-time? […]

Agent-based Modelling for Digital Twins

Last Week In the previous article of this Digital Twin series we looked at crowd modelling at the human level. This builds on one of the primary areas of modelling and simulation, being Agent-based Modelling (ABM). In this article we look at the core themes of ABMs and some of interesting challenges faced in building […]

Personal Digital Twins: Microscopic Simulation at the Individual Level

Last Week… We looked at Humancentric Digital Twins from the perspective of Virtual Reality. We saw how humans, are not only affected by, but can have an active say in the end product This week… We are focusing in from Digital Twins informed by humans to Digital Twins about Humans in the spaces they live […]

Humancentric Digital Twins

Last week… In Part 1 of of Digital Twin Series we laid the foundation of what Digital Twins are and the Tools and Technologies behind the concept. This week… Being based in Nexus in the centre of Leeds next door to the University of Leeds continues to give Slingshot a unique opportunity to access world […]

We’re Donating Server Time to COVID-19

Slingshot simulations has started donating its compute power to Rosetta@Home to help in the fight against COVID-19 and is now in the Top 5% of contributors. About Boinc on Kubernetes – Helping Fight COVID-19 Boinc is a program that is used to donate cpu cycles for charitable purposes. It is put into a Docker container, […]

What are Digital Twins?

What are Digital Twins today? A Review of the Digital Twins landscape: Tools, Tech and Concepts In this post we start off a series of blogs looking at Digital Twins to explore what they are and what they mean to different sectors. What are Digital Twins? In 2017 Gartner reported that Digital Twins were one […]

3 Minutes with our Intern: Working at Slingshot Simulations

Does Quantum Optics and Simulation go together? Jake Southall is a 3rd year PhD student, specialising in quantum optics and has just finished his 3 month stint at Slingshot Simulations. From combating code to playing pool, Jake reflects on his time with us… Before we start, what is quantum optics? This is the study of […]