Programme
9th-11th September
Welcome reception, College Court Conference Centre.
DiRAC are pleased to be hosting a hackathon at Leicester focussed on two novel technologies:
- Arm processors – use the HPE/Suse/Arm Catalyst UK cluster hosted at Leicester, to explore whether your code can benefit from the enhanced memory bandwidth offered by the Thunder X2 processors. In addition, codes which are found to perform well on Arm cores will be able to access (potentially significant amounts of) time on this 4096-core cluster at Leicester in the period before it is handed over to the DiRAC RAC and the University of Leicester to go into full production.
- Mellanox Bluefield – explore the potential benefits of offloading parts of your science calculations onto the additional compute capacity available within the next generation of network switches.
Technical experts from both Arm and Mellanox will be attending to provide assistance and advice on porting your code and/or modifying it to take advantage of the new hardware. DiRAC users who have attended previous hackathons have found them to be very productive, providing an opportunity to benefit from the expertise of colleagues around DiRAC as well as from the industry partners.
Thursday 12 September
Held on the first floor of the College Court Conference Centre. Exhibitors and posters are located in the Chestnut and Birch rooms, first floor of College Court.
| Time | Session | Location |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome and Director’s report | Oak Room |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Morning session | Oak Room |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Morning session (cont.) | Oak Room |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 – 17:15 | Parallel Session 1 | Left hand side of Oak Room |
| Parallel Session 2 | Right hand side of Oak Room | |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Poster session, prizes and reception | Chestnut and Birch Rooms |
| 18:00 | Close |
Morning session
Located in the Oak Room.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00 | Mark Wilkinson | Welcome and Director’s report |
| 09:30 | Judd Harrison | Testing the Standard Model with b to c Weak Decays using Lattice QCD |
| 10:00 | Romeel Dave | The Simba and Simba-ELUCID Simulations |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Vincent Drach | Signatures of a new strongly interacting sector using lattice simulations |
| 11:30 | Asier Lopez Eiguren | The scaling density of axion strings |
| 12:00 | Luca Franci | Plasma turbulence |
| 12:30 | Alejandro Benítez Llambay | Dark galaxies: probing LCDM on unprecedented scales |
Parallel Session 1
Located in the Oak Room, left hand side.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 14:30 | James Coomer | DDN |
| 14:45 | Rich Graham | Mellanox |
| 15:00 | Tim Lanfear | Nvidia |
| 15:15 | Steve Perkins | Panasas |
| 15:30 | Chris Weeden | WekaIO Architecture Introduction |
| 15:45 | Martyn Foster | Introducing the Atos Data Centre |
| 16:00 | Colin Whitbread | HPE |
| 16:15 | Filippo Spiga | Arm |
| 16:35 | Alexei Borrisov | DiRAC RSE Contributions to Astrophysics |
| 16:55 | Chris Allton | Hot Hadrons |
Parallel Session 2
Located in the Oak Room, right hand side.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 14:30 | Arnau Rios Huguet | Nuclear Theory Results with DiRAC: an update |
| 14:50 | Colin McNally | Planets in inviscid discs in 2D and 3D |
| 15:10 | Bipasha Chakraborty | Exploring the precision frontier of particle physics: D to K weak decays from lattice QCD using DiRAC |
| 15:30 | Rosie Talbot | Blandford-Znajek jets in galaxy formation simulations |
| 15:50 | Hackathon presentations |
