Programme wide ExCALIBUR workshop

The final, programme wide, ExCALIBUR workshop will be held on Thursday October 17th, starting at 10am and Friday October 18th, finishing at 3pm, at the College Court Conference Centre in Leicester, and will be co-located with the HPC AI advisory council’s annual UK conference which itself will be running on the 15th and 16th of October at the same venue.

The purpose of the workshop will be to share, what will be for many project the final, outcomes of ExCALIBUR projects and to discuss how we can continue as the UK wide HPC community to move towards exascale and build upon the successes of the ExCALIBUR programme. There will be a three course dinner on the Thursday evening, and more details about getting to the conference centre can be found here.

Agenda

Thursday 17th October

Time	Description	Person
9:15 – 10:00	Arrival and registration
10:00 – 10:05	Opening remarks
10:05 – 10:45	Keynote: ExCALIBUR from the Met Office perspective	Nigel Wood
10:45 – 11:05	Unlocking new medical knowledge and improving patent outcomes through exascale computing	Andrea Townsend-Nicholson
11:05 – 11:25	Expanding into the fourth dimension: Parallelising the time dimension of simulations to unlock new opportunities for performance	Josh Hope-Collins
11:25 – 11:45	Delivering new scientific insights by using exascale particle based simulations	Phil Hasnip
11:45 – 12:05	Partial Differential Equations (PDEs): New horizons in the solving one of the key building blocks in scientific computing at the exascale	Chris Richardson & Timo Betcke & Mayank Kumar
12:05 – 12:25	How to measure the success of a programme like ExCALIBUR and why this matters	Georgia Siora
12:25 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Keynote: ExCALIBUR from the UKRI perspective	Luke Davis
14:00 – 14:20	Modelling turbulence, the key ingredient to better understanding wind energy, green aviation and air quality	Sylvain Laizet
14:20 – 14:40	Improving the performance of multi-grid algorithms through task-based parallelism	Tobias Weinzierl
14:40 – 15:00	Establishing the reliability and reproducibility of simulations via uncertainty quantification and the SEAVEA toolkit	Peter Coveney
15:00 – 15:30	Afternoon break
15:30 – 15:50	Understanding and nurturing an integrated vision for education in RSE and HPC	Kirsty Pringle
15:50 – 16:10	Unlocking new horizons in recovering images of interest from raw data by leveraging exascale computational imaging	Jason McEwen
16:10 – 16:30	Removing a key barrier to the adoption of Domain Specific Languages (DSL) in scientific computing by unifying ecosystems using MLIR and xDSL	Tobias Grosser
16:30 – 16:40	Uncertainty quantification at the Exa-scale	Peter Challenor
16:40 – 17:30	Panel: How do we build on the successes of ExCALIBUR in the UK?	Luke Davis, Nigel Wood, Mark Wilkinson, Georgia Siora, Martin Hamilton
19:00 – late	Dinner

Friday 18th October

Time	Description	Person
8:30 – 9:00	Arrive and morning coffee
9:00 – 9:30	Keynote: ExCALIBUR fusion use case – Project NEPTUNE	Ed Threlfall & Will Saunders
9:30 – 9:50	Quantum computing: What it is and what it has to do with exascale	John Buckeridge
9:50 – 10:10	Bioimage processing at the exascale	Leila Muresan
10:10 – 10:30	Morning break
10:30 – 10:50	Hardware & Enabling software: Successes, lessons learnt and next steps	Jeremy Yates
10:50 – 11:10	In-situ visualization and unified programming across accelerator architectures	Juliana Kwan
11:10 – 11:30	Understanding exascale performance through benchmarking	Tuomas Koskela
11:30 – 11:50	Durham’s range of hardware and enabling software testbeds	Alastair Basden
11:50 – 12:10	New potential hardware for exascale: RISC-V and AMD’s AI Engines	Nick Brown
12:10 – 12:30	Going fast: Isambard-AI	Richard Gilham
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 13:50	The Fortran based PSyclone Domain Specific Language (DSL) for scientific computing	Chris Maynard
13:50 – 14:10	Addressing the I/O bottleneck for weather simulations by optimising data handling and data workloads	Grenville Lister
14:10 – 14:30	Delivering a step change in policy recommendations by using agent based modelling	Ricardo Colasanti
14:30 – 14:50	Biomolecular simulations at the exascale	Robert Welch
14:50 – 15:05	Blueprinting AI for Science at Exascale	Mark Wilkinson
15:05 – 15:10	Closing remarks
15:00 – 15:30	Refreshments and coffee

Registration

Attendance is free, but you do need to register as places are limited to the capacity of the centre, to register see here.

Participants will need to cover their own other costs, such as travel and accommodation. We have a number of hotel rooms reserved at the venue until the 16th of September at a preferential rate. If you wish to book then please fill in this booking form and email it to  and quote booking reference 82381 .