Following on from last year’s successful meeting, the University of Bath's 6th annual HPC Symposium will take place on Monday 12th June 2017 in the Chancellors' Building.

The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for current and prospective users of the University's new Balena HPC facility to network and exchange ideas. The one-day event will give users the opportunity to get an overview of the broad research being done by the growing HPC community at Bath, and to discus their own work with others in an informal setting.

The day is loosely planned to include keynote lectures (see below) alongside talks and poster/flash presentations by Balena users. As is tradition, prizes will be awarded for the best talks and posters.

Refreshments and a buffet lunch will be provided during the day, and there will be an early-evening networking event with pizza and refreshments.

The meeting will be held in the Chancellors' Building, Room CB2.6; further details, including an up-to-date schedule and information about abstract submission, can be found at http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/services/hpc/symposium/2017.

Keynotes:

We are pleased to announce two Keynote speakers for the 6th Annual Symposium on HPC.

Simon McIntosh-Smith from the University of Bristol will give a talk entitled: “Xeon and Pascal and POWER, oh Phi!”: how to cope in a world of increasingly diverse architectures".

is a Professor of High Performance Computing and the Head of the Microelectronics Research Group. Just to mention some of his roles, he is a contributor to both the OpenCL and OpenMP parallel programming standards, regular member of the programme committee for IEEE/ACM SuperComputing and ISC and member of the EPSRC Archer national supercomputer design team.

Simon's research interests include:
- Performance portability
- Application-based fault tolerance (ABFT)
- New algorithms for novel architectures
- Heterogeneous, many-core processor architectures, including GPUs, Xeon Phi, FPGAs, DSPs etc.
- Scaling applications to run on millions of cores (Exascale computing)

David Britton is a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (https://home.cern/about). He will give a talk entitled: "Evolution of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid".

David is a professor of physics at the University of Glasgow and Project Leader of the GridPP project that provides Grid computing for particle physics throughout the UK. He is a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN with an interest in Higgs decaying to a pair of tau-leptons. Previously he worked on CMS, another of the LHC experiments, qualifying the crystals that make up the end-caps of the electromagnetic calorimeter. He has also worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (the BaBar experiment); Cornell (the CLEO experiment); and at DESY in Hamburg (the ARGUS experiment) with an empahsis on tracking detectors. Earlier work at TRIUMF in Vancouver established the most stringent limits on lepton universality through rare pion decays.

He has been involved with the GridPP project since conception in 2000 and was one of the lead authors of the proposals for all three phases. Intially appointed as Project Manager, he took over as the GridPP Project leader in 2008. GridPP is a collaboration of Particle Physicists and Computing Scientists from 19 UK Universities together with the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and CERN, who have built a Grid for Particle Physics.

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University of Bath - HPC Symposium 2017