The Supercomputing Wales Swansea Symposium 2018 brings together researchers from all corners of the University making use of Supercomputing Wales facilities to share their current research.

Agenda

9:30–9:45 Arrivals
9:45–10:00 Welcome from the SA2C Director
10:00–10:15 Mark Dawson – "What is a Research Software Engineer?"
10:15–11:00 Ben Evans – "HPC for CFD – high speed boats, cars and other things…"
11:00–11:15 Coffee
11:15–11:45 Introduction to the new HPC hardware
11:45–12:30 Panel discussion with Q&A
12:30–14:00 Lunch and posters
14:00–14:45 Gert Aarts – "Quarks and gluons under extreme conditions: what the computer tells us"
14:45–15:00 Jarno Rantaharju – "Using vector instructions on modern CPUs"
15:00–15:15 Ed Bennett – "Profiling MPI code to identify bottlenecks"
15:15–15:30 Mark Dawson – "Building graphical interfaces to applications for HPC"
15:30–15:45 Coffee
15:45–16:10 Tamsyn Urenwebster – "Fish Genomes, Epigenomes and Microbiomes"
16:10–16:30 John Walshe – "Protein modelling on supercomputers"
16:30–16:45 Closing remarks and prize for best poster
16:45 Close

Poster Session

The event will include a poster session, to allow researchers at all career stages to present their work. A prize for the best poster contribution, decided by a panel formed from the Swansea Academy of Advanced Computing committees and external partners, will be presented at the end of the day.

If you would like to present a poster, please email your poster title to sa2c-support@swansea.ac.uk before 7 September 2018. Posters should be A0 portrait or smaller.