Registration
Now closed. Please email Neil if you need to change anything about your registration.
Daytime venue
Private Dining Room, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW.
To find the venue, please open the online campus map and search for "Private Dining Room". Alternatively, the location is highlighted in pink in the PDF copy of the campus map available here.
Lancaster University Bed & Breakfast accommodation
Information for guests can be found here. This includes contact details and phone numbers in case of problems.
Before you get to Lancaster you will hopefully have received an email including the details of/directions to your accommodation and a 4-digit access code to a key box.
The location of the accommodation (Fair Snape guest rooms) is highlighted in yellow in the PDF copy of the campus map available here.
Useful links
Programme
| Monday 22nd April 2024 | |
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| 11.00 am | Arrival / tea / coffee |
| 11.45 am | Welcome (Neil Drummond) |
| 11.50 am | Talk: Acceleration of Electronic Structure Codes on Heterogeneous Hardware (Marcello Puligheddu) [Download slides] |
| 12.30 pm | Talk: Application of a Master–Worker Parallelism on Materials Modelling (Woongkyu Jee) [Download slides] |
| 1.00 pm | Lunch |
| 2.00 pm | Talk: SWIFT2 (Mladen Ivkovic) [Download slides] |
| 2.40 pm | Talk: Accelerating CASINO using GPUs (Ben Thorpe and Neil Drummond) [Download slides] |
| 3.20 pm | Tea / coffee |
| 3.40 pm | Talk: Attempts at Particles Without MPI and the Hardware Landscape (Alastair Basden) [Download slides] |
| 4.20 pm | Talk: CASTEP for Exascale (Phil Hasnip) [Download slides] |
| 5.00 pm | Talk: Yet Another HPC Benchmarking Project (Rob Welch) |
| 5.40 pm | Discussion on training requirements (led by Xu Guo) [Download slides] [Download discussion notes] |
| 7.00 pm | Dinner |
| Tuesday 23rd April 2024 | |
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| 9.30 am | Annual State of the Project address (Scott Woodley) |
| 10.00 am | RSEs: Future funding, etc. (led by Alexey Sokol) |
| 11.00 am | Tea / coffee |
| 11.30 am | Plans for PAX-HPC review paper (led by Scott Woodley) |
| 1.00 pm | Lunch |
| 2.00 pm | Knowledge exchange (led by Phil Hasnip) |
| 3.30 pm | Tea / coffee |
| 4.00 pm | Finish / Pub [Merchants 1688, a short walk from Lancaster Railway Station; map here] (Neil Drummond) |
Contact
Organiser: Neil Drummond
Email: "n.drummond", followed by "@", followed by "lancaster.ac.uk"