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Sixth Annual DiRAC Science Day

8 September 2016
James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Building
Europe/London timezone

Session

Technical parallel session

Technical
8 Sept 2016, 14:00
Lecture Theatre A (James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Building)

Lecture Theatre A

James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Building

Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD United Kingdom

Conveners

Technical parallel session

  • Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh)

Technical parallel session

  • Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh)

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  1. 6. Emerging technologies
    Prof. Peter Boyle (Edinburgh)
    08/09/2016, 14:00
  2. 7. Grid, a next generation data parallel C++ library
    Dr Guido Cossu (Edinburgh University)
    08/09/2016, 14:30
    We discuss the development of a new data parallel library targeted to any problem requiring solving partial differential equations on a regular grid. The main motivation in the development is the proliferation of the hierarchies of parallelism in modern architectures that requires constant adaptations of large parts of the codebases for each new architecture like the new Intel Knights Landing....
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  3. 52. An Overview of the DiRAC-3 Benchmark Suite
    Dr Richard Rollins (DiRAC / University of Manchester)
    08/09/2016, 14:50
    In preparation for the procurement of their next generation of supercomputers, DiRAC have developed a suite of benchmarks based on the software in use on their current systems. Working with vendors, this will allow us to characterise the performance of key particle physics and astrophysics algorithms on newly available hardware. This talk will provide an overview of the design and development...
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  4. 9. SWIFT - Scaling on next generation architectures
    Mr James Willis (ICC, Durham University)
    08/09/2016, 15:10
    The next-generation cosmological code SWIFT has been demonstrated to outperform current codes by more than an order of magnitude on ordinary x86-based clusters such as the cosma system in DiRAC. This has been achieved thank to the use of better algorithm, task-based parallelism and asynchronous communications. However, the next generation of machines that will contain many more cores per node,...
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  5. 10. Co-design of Cray Software Components
    Adrian Tate (Cray)
    08/09/2016, 16:00
    HPC Co-design is a set of interactive, dependent design activities used as a vehicle for simultaneous improvement of HPC Software and Hardware over a longer period. We describe the co-design model that is used by the Cray EMEA Research Lab and also the way that co-design informs technical project management. We then describe some specific co-design activities in the area of memory hierarchy...
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  6. 11. AAAI, Cloud & Data Managment; DiRAC in the National E-Infrastructure
    Dr Jeremy Yates (DiRAC)
    08/09/2016, 16:30
    The National e-Infrastructure is currently (re)forming in the UK. It's key theme is access to the appropriate resources. It's core consituents are: - Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Infrastructure - Use of Cloud technologies to allow academic researchers and business to run workflows using the appropriate IT services - Data Movement services that allow the researcher to...
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