ExCALIBUR RSEs meet HPC Champions
This hybrid in-person and online event is co-located with RSECon22 in Newcastle and brings together RSEs and others with an interest in high performance computing and exascale computing. The day will consist of a series of short presentations with plenty of opportunity for discussion and collaboration.
Teas, coffees and lunch will be provided for all in-person attendees.
- When? 0830-1600, Friday 9 September 2022
- Where? The Florence Kirkby Lecture Theatre (FDC.G06), Frederick Douglass Centre, The Helix Centre, Newcastle University and online
Thanks to EPCC and ARCHER2 for sponsoring this event.
Regstration
Registration for this event is free and is available on a first-come, first-served basis:
Presentations
Presentations will be made available online on Google Drive
Discussion sessions
Discussion session notes will be recorded in documents on Google Drive
Instructions for discussion session scribes/leaders:
- Go to Google Drive
- Make a copy of the “Discussion Notes: Template” document
- Rename the copy with the topic you are discussing
- Discuss and complete the notes!
Agenda
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 08.30 | Arrival & Coffee |
| 09.00 | Welcome - Marion Weinzierl, Andy Turner |
| 09.15 | ExCALIBUR Project lightning talks |
| Jeremy Yates, UCL - The Exascale IO Challenge - orchestrating data movement from disk to registers and back again | |
| Ricky Olivier, University of Exeter - An Exascale Uncertainty Toolbox | |
| Jack Betteridge, Imperial Colledge London - Firedrake | |
| Chris Richardson, University of Cambridge - Scaling an application with unscalable MPI on 100000 processes | |
| Sadie Bartholomew, NCAS - ExCALIData | |
| Tobias Weinzierl, Durham University - Low performance and low level programming - how the lack of knowledge about (and training in) hardware, compilers and C programming threatens our HPC projects | |
| Andy Turner, EPCC/Alastair Basden, Durham University - HPC-JEEP - energy monitoring on HPC systems | |
| 10.00 | Short break |
| 10.05 | David Henty, EPCC - RSE Development and Training: UNIVERSE-HPC |
| 10.20 | Jemma Shipton, Omar Jamil, University of Exeter - RSE Development and Training: RSE training in algorithms for exascale simulations |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10.45 | Lewis Sampson/MetOffice SSEs - The Met Office and the ExCALIBUR pool of deployable SSEs |
| 11.00 | Helen Brooks, UKAEA - The Role of HPC in Fusion Engineering |
| 11:15 | Christian Kniep, QNIB Solutions - HPC Container Engines |
| 11.35 | Short break |
| 11:50 | Software/problem demos |
| Christian Kniep, QNIB Solutions - Containers Demo | |
| Matt West, University of Exeter - Workflow management toolset | |
| Adam Tuft, Durham University - Otter: A Data-Driven Workflow for Parallelising Serial HPC Code | |
| 12.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.30 | Introduce breakout discussions & form groups |
| 13.45 | Breakout discussions about potential collaborations and common problems/questions |
| 14.30 | Report-back from groups |
| 15.00 | Wrap-up/Plenary discussion: Where do we go from here? |
| 15.15 | Coffee & chat |
| 16:00 | End |
More information
If you have any questions about this event or are interested in providing a short presentation as part of the event, please contact the organisers: Marion Weinzierl, Andy Turner and Jemma Shipton.