Post-Symposium Information
The organisers would like to thank all the participants very much again for coming to the meeting on 4th June, we really hope you enjoyed the day. It was great to see such a large number of people, hearing about the interesting science that is being done with the Aquila HPC cluster and share ideas during both the formal and informal discussions.
In particular we would like to thank all talk- and poster presenters, the session chairs and the independent judges and everybody who participated in the discussions. We are very grateful to Prof Mike Giles for a very inspiring keynote lecture, James Davenport for the introduction in the morning and David Bird for guiding the discussion in the afternoon, and to everybody else who helped out during the day with catering, staffing the registration desk and making sure that everything went smoothly.
A photograph of all delegates can be found here: delegation photo.
We would like to congratulate once more Dr Eike Mueller, who won the prize for the best talk, and Adam Jackson, who won the prize for the best poster - well done!
Many of the presentations from the HPC Symposium are now available online, see the programme page for links to the presentations.
Also watch out for the news article which is soon to appear on the University webpage.
Given the success of yesterday's meeting and the lively discussion session in the afternoon, it would be great if we can build on the momentum to follow up from this. We would definitely like to hold another meeting next year, but if there is interest in this, we could also organise a shorter, informal discussion session sooner, i.e. within the next few months, with particular focus on the next generation Bath HPC system.
Also don't forget that there is a user mailing list on aquila (hpc-users@lists.bath.ac.uk) which can be used for general discussions. If you have any other ideas on how to follow on from the symposium or how to improve it next year, please email us on hpc-symposium@bath.ac.uk.
See you next year,
The Scientific Organising Committee
Dr Steven Chapman (Computing Services)
Dr Davide Tiana (Dept. of Chemistry)
Dr Eike Mueller (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences)
General Information
On Tuesday 4th June 2013, the University of Bath will be hosting it's second HPC Symposium. This symposium is for all staff and students who use or are interested in using the HPC service. The main aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for current (and prospective) users of the University's HPC service, aka Aquila, and it will be an excellent opportunity to network and exchange ideas with your colleagues. Hopefully the experiences you make and the people you meet will help you with your own research in the future.
If you would like to attend, please register before Friday 17th May by sending an email to hpc-symposium@bath.ac.uk and let us know of any special dietary requirements. See the Registration section below for more information.
If you are a researcher engaged in HPC themed scientific research and you wish to give a talk about your research or present a poster please submit an abstract by Friday 10th May 2013. Please see talks and posters section below for more information.
The following activities are planned for the day:
- A keynote lecture by Prof. Mike Giles, Professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford, who is one of the UK's leading experts on using GPUs for Scientific Computing
- Talks and posters by users of the HPC facility
- A prize will be given for the best talk (iPad Mini) and the best poster (iPod Nano) presented
- A discussion session on the future of HPC in Bath
- A buffet lunch will be provided along with refreshments and lots of opportunities to network
Please pass on this invitation to any other people in your department that you think might be interested in participating and feel free to print out and display the poster (a .pdf file is available at http://go.bath.ac.uk/hpc-symposium-poster) in your department.
Important dates:
10th May: Abstract submission deadline17th May: Registration deadline4th June: HPC Symposium in 4 West 1.2
Local organising committee:
- Steven Chapman, BUCS
- Rose Green, BUCS
- Steph Jewitt, BUCS
- Yogesh Lalwani, Dept of Mechanical Engineering
- Sarah Griffin, BUCS
- Vicky Evans, BUCS
Science Programme
A preliminary programme for the day can be found here: programme (updated 13th June 2013)
A full programme with abstracts can be found here: full-programme.pdf (updated 24th May 2013)
A full list of paricipants can be found here (updated 24th May 2013)
Scientific organising committee:
- Dr Eike Mueller, Dept of Mathematical Sciences
- Dr Davide Tiana, Dept of Chemistry
- Dr Steven Chapman, Computing Services
Registration
There is no registration fee, but we need to collect a list of attendees and know numbers in advance to organise catering. If you are interested in attending, please register by before Friday 17th May by sending an email to hpc-symposium@bath.ac.uk and let us know if you have any special dietary requirements.
If you are planning to submit an abstract please could you indicate in your registration email whether your would like to give a talk or present a poster and could you include the title of your contribution.
List of paricipants can be found here (updated 24th May 2013)
Talks and Posters
Contributions in the form of talks and posters are vital for the success of the symposium and there will be prizes for the best talk and poster. If you are currently using the University's HPC facility for your research, we strongly encourage you to share your experiences with others at the meeting. You can also present your research if you are not currently using the HPC facility, but are working on a computationally intensive problem which might benefit from using HPC.
The following topics will be covered (list not exhaustive)...
- HPC driven research in all disciplines
- Experiences with tools and libraries
- Parallel code development and scalability
- Algorithms
- Novel architectures: GPUs and Xeon Phi
Talk are scheduled to be 15 minutes (including questions).
Instructions for authors
If you plan to present a talk or poster, please submit your abstract in LaTeX or Microsoft Word format and send your .tex source file or the word template in an email to hpc-symposium@bath.ac.uk by the abstract submission deadline of Friday 10th May. The best abstracts will be selected and a list of talks and posters will be announced on May 17th.
The LaTeX and the Microsoft Word templates are available below, please remember to rename the file with your username e.g. abstract_sac44.doc.
- LaTeX Abstract template - abstract_username.tex
- Microsoft Word Abstract template - abstract_username.dot
Oral presentations
We will have the usual overhead projector and networked University computer facilities for projecting Microsoft Powerpoint presentations.
Talks have been allocated 15 minutes for each slot (10 minutes talk + 5 minutes for questions). As we have a very busy schedule we will be quite strict about time, so please keep your presentation concise and allow sufficient time for questions at the end.
Submitting talks:
We will collect all talks before the session and use the computer in the lecture theatre. Presentations can be saved as either MS Powerpoint or .pdf files (it might be worth double checking that you can actually view the file on the University computer system). Please note that we will not allow the use of personal laptops for giving presentations because of the delays to the schedule this might cause. When submitting your contribution, clearly name the file with 'HPCSymp_' and your full name, e.g. 'HPCSymp_EikeMueller.pdf' and submit it before your session, and if possible the day before the meeting.
There are two possibilities for submitting your talk:
- Copy it to a USB stick and bring it to the meeting.
- Email it to hpc-symposium@bath.ac.uk [Please put your full name in the subject]
Posters
The poster displays will be in 4West foyer near the coffee/tea stations. The poster boards will be available in the morning for contributors to hang their posters.
Posters will be displayed during the entire duration of the meeting, and there will be opportunities to present your work during the coffee and lunch breaks. Please arrive in time to set up your poster before the meeting starts. Poster boards and tools will be provided in the 4 West Atrium area. There are NO special requirements on the format of your poster (size, orientation etc).