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Oct 2024
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Oct 2024
Programme wide ExCALIBUR workshop
The programme wide ExCALIBUR workshop was held on Thursday October 17th, starting at 10am and Friday October 18th, finishing at 3pm, at the College Court Conference Centre in Leicester, and was co-located with the HPC AI advisory council’s annual UK conference which itself ran on the 15th and 16th of October at the same venue.
The purpose of the workshop was 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 was a three course dinner on the Thursday evening.
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 (slides) | Nigel Wood |
| 10:45 – 11:05 | Unlocking new medical knowledge and improving patent outcomes through exascale computing (slides) | Andrea Townsend-Nicholson |
| 11:05 – 11:25 | Expanding into the fourth dimension: Parallelising the time dimension of simulations to unlock new opportunities for performance (slides) | 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 (slides) | Chris Richardson & Timo Betcke & Mayank Kumar |
| 12:05 – 12:25 | How to measure the success of a programme like ExCALIBUR and why this matters (slides) | 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 (slides) | Sylvain Laizet |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Improving the performance of multi-grid algorithms through task-based parallelism (slides) | Tobias Weinzierl |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Establishing the reliability and reproducibility of simulations via uncertainty quantification and the SEAVEA toolkit (slides) | Peter Coveney |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon break | |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Understanding and nurturing an integrated vision for education in RSE and HPC (slides) | Kirsty Pringle |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Unlocking new horizons in recovering images of interest from raw data by leveraging exascale computational imaging (slides) | 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 (slides) | Tobias Grosser |
| 16:30 – 16:40 | Uncertainty quantification at the Exa-scale (slides) | 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 (slides and slides) | Ed Threlfall & Will Saunders |
| 9:30 – 9:50 | Quantum computing: What it is and what it has to do with exascale (slides) | 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 (slides) | Jeremy Yates |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | In-situ visualization and unified programming across accelerator architectures (slides) | Juliana Kwan |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Understanding exascale performance through benchmarking (slides) | Tuomas Koskela |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Durham’s range of hardware and enabling software testbeds (slides) | Alastair Basden |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | New potential hardware for exascale: RISC-V and AMD’s AI Engines (slides) | Nick Brown |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Going fast: Isambard-AI (slides) | Richard Gilham |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | The Fortran based PSyclone Domain Specific Language (DSL) for scientific computing (slides) | Andy Porter |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Addressing the I/O bottleneck for weather simulations by optimising data handling and data workloads (slides) | Grenville Lister |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Delivering a step change in policy recommendations by using agent based modelling (slides) | Ricardo Colasanti |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Biomolecular simulations at the exascale | Robert Welch |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Blueprinting AI for Science at Exascale (slides) | Mark Wilkinson |
| 15:05 – 15:10 | Closing remarks | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Refreshments and coffee |