This a workshop on ‘Making HPC Easier for Social Scientists’ organised as part of the ExAMPLER project (https://exascale.hutton.ac.uk/) from lunchtime Tuesday 18 March to lunchtime on Wednesday 19 March, with the option to participate in a hackathon for a day afterwards.

This workshop will feature guest presentations from Paul Richmond (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cs/people/academic/paul-richmond, who has developed the FLAME GPU architecture to run agent-based models on GPUs https://flamegpu.com/) and Jacob Kelter (who is working on NetLogo development). The workshop has been funded by the ECP/USA ExCALIBUR Collaboration Programme.

The venue is the Foundling Museum near Russell Square and Kings Cross: Study Studio

Agenda:

Tuesday 18 March

12:30-14:00 Arrival and lunch
14:00-17:30 Welcome, guest presentations, general discussion on ‘running HPC from NetLogo’
Dinner

Wednesday 19 March

09:00-12:30 Discussion of requirements
Option to leave for those not interested in the hackathon
14:00-18:00 Hackathon to start work on requirements
Dinner

Thursday 20 March

Hackathon and close; option to leave at lunchtime.

Any queries please contact The CASA Communications Team at casa.comms@ucl.ac.uk