Conveners
Technical parallel session
- Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh)
Technical parallel session
- Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh)
Dr
Guido Cossu
(Edinburgh University)
9/8/16, 2:30 PM
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....
Dr
Richard Rollins
(DiRAC / University of Manchester)
9/8/16, 2:50 PM
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...
Mr
James Willis
(ICC, Durham University)
9/8/16, 3:10 PM
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,...
