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European Centre of Excellence in Physics at Extreme Scales

Event description

The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers from across Europe together to discuss a proposal to Horizon2020 for a Centre of Excellence for Computing Applications.

The workshop has been initiated by the lattice field theory community and is intended to facilitate partnership with users in other application areas that are extreme in terms of their physics and computational requirements, with HPC technology providers and with industry end-users.

A draft outline of the Centre, including a list of work packages, is available under Resources. This seeks suggestions for, and contributions to work packages. Also included is a list of discussion items that have been proposed in response to the outline.

Attendees are invited to give a talk about their proposed contribution to the Centre of Excellence. Please provide a title and abstract when you register.

Speakers are requested to send their overheads to Brian Pendleton (bjp [at] ph.ed.ac.uk) and these will be made available on this website before the workshop.

Owing to the numbers attending and the limited facilities in the meeting room, we are unable to offer videoconferencing or to broadcast the presentations. If anyone wishes to participate in the discussion sessions via skype or a conference call, please let Brian Pendleton know.

A light breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be provided.

We regret that we cannot provide any financial support.

The complete list of talks and a number of abstracts are here.


Timetable

See the full timetable on Indico

15 Apr / 08:00—08:10
Objectives and plan for the day (0h10′)
Speaker(s):
15 Apr / 08:10—08:30
Horizon 2020 and PRACE (0h20′)
Speaker(s):
  • Kennedy, Alison (University of Edinburgh & Director of PRACE)
15 Apr / 08:30—08:45
Discussion (0h15′)
15 Apr / 08:45—09:00
Precision hadron structure & novel computer architectures (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Constantia ALEXANDROU (The Cyprus Institute)
15 Apr / 09:00—09:15
Cambridge contribution to the Centre of Excellence (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Wingate, Matthew (University of Cambridge)
15 Apr / 09:15—09:30
Phi in the Sky and the Extreme Universe (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Paul SHELLARD (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
15 Apr / 09:30—09:45
Supercomputer simulations of galaxy formation (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Theuns, Tom (Durham)
15 Apr / 09:45—10:00
Co-design for lattice QCD (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
15 Apr / 10:15—10:30
Automated Code Generation for Lattice QCD Simulation (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Barthou, Denis (Inria)
15 Apr / 10:30—10:45
Programming Heterogeneous Computing Architectures with the StarPU Runtime System (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Aumage, Olivier (Inria)
15 Apr / 10:45—11:00
Programming models and compiler support for heterogeneous parallelism (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Richards, Andrew (Codeplay)
15 Apr / 11:00—11:15
GPUs for Physics (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Gray, Alan (The University of Edinburgh)
15 Apr / 11:15—11:30
Computing for the LHC (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Clarke, Pete (The University of Edinburgh)
15 Apr / 11:30—11:45
Computing for the LHC II (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Washbrook, Andrew (Edinburgh)
15 Apr / 12:15—12:30
Snippets from the DiRAC-3 Science Case (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Yates, Jeremy (STFC DiRAC)
15 Apr / 12:30—12:45
Training Europe wide (0h15′)
Speaker(s):
  • Henty, David (The University of Edinburgh)
15 Apr / 12:45—13:30
Discussion on scope and structure of the CoE (0h45′)
15 Apr / 13:30—14:00
Assignment of Work Package leaders and participants (0h30′)
15 Apr / 14:00—14:30
Parallel session for Work Package groups to discuss plans (0h30′)
15 Apr / 14:30—14:45
Work Package leaders report (0h15′)
15 Apr / 14:45—15:00
Next steps (0h15′)
Speaker(s):

European Centre of Excellence in Physics at Extreme Scales

Venues

The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics (Find us on campus maps)
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK

Organisers

Key speakers

  • Richard KENWAY (The University of Edinburgh)
  • Kennedy, Alison (University of Edinburgh & Director of PRACE)
  • Constantia ALEXANDROU (The Cyprus Institute)
  • Wingate, Matthew (University of Cambridge)
  • Paul SHELLARD (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)
  • Theuns, Tom (Durham)
  • Peter BOYLE (The University of Edinburgh)
  • Barthou, Denis (Inria)
  • Aumage, Olivier (Inria)
  • Richards, Andrew (Codeplay)
  • Gray, Alan (The University of Edinburgh)
  • Clarke, Pete (The University of Edinburgh)
  • Washbrook, Andrew (Edinburgh)
  • Yates, Jeremy (STFC DiRAC)
  • Henty, David (The University of Edinburgh)
  • Richard KENWAY (The University of Edinburgh)

Resources

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