Will's Research

Will believes that High Performance Computing (HPC) is an essential enabler of discoveries in many research fields. The amount of computational power that scientists require is continuing to grow and the need for more powerful computing facilities needs to be met. However, as coding for these supercomputers is difficult and time consuming, Will has focused his research efforts on making it easier to write parallel code that is efficient on multiple machines without having to make any changes. This is making supercomputers such as Balena easier to use by researchers with large computational requirements, particularly those in Physics and Chemistry.

Will's Advice

Throughout his PhD in Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Will noticed that there are many different types of research that could be improved by using HPC. He advises that:

• New researchers to investigate how using HPC, such as Balena, can progress their research.

• Researchers should be aware of the training and support that is available.

• Researchers should also be aware of the Research Software Engineer (RSE) services that are provided by the Advancing Research Computing Team.