HPC Workshops

The research support team organise workshops as an opportunity for all users of HPC facilities at Sussex to get together and hear talks from other users, with the aim of sharing with other users how the computing cluster is being used to further their research.

The workshops aim to foster links between users from different research areas, with a view to building a strong user community. We would like to develop a centre of excellence for HPC at Sussex and this can only be achieved by sharing ideas and learning from each other.

2012-13 workshop

16 January 2013

Welcome
Professor Michael Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)

Sussex HPC facilities and service development part 1 (PDF) Jeremy Maris (IT Services)
part 2 (PDF) Emyr James (Experimental Particle Physics)

Large eddy simulation for jet turbulence using high performance parallel computing (PDF, login needed)
Hao Xia (Engineering and Design)

Grid computing for the SNO+ experiment (PDF)
Matthew Mottram (Experimental Particle Physics)

DTI at 100 microns: What we can do, and what we cannot (yet) do with Diffusion MRI
Colin Reveley (Informatics)

Using the Cloud - the Newcastle experience (PDF)
Stephen McGough (Research Manager, Digital Institute, Newcastle University)

2011-12 workshop

14 December 2011

Sussex HPC - Introduction to facilities and service development (PDF)
Jeremy Maris (IT Services)

The Cambridge GPU HPC cluster
Stuart Rankin (Cambridge University HPC Service)

Remote visualisation of data sets stored on HPC (PDF)
Stuart Rankin (Cambridge University HPC Service)

GPU technology
Steve Smith (Dell HPC)

Short talks from users, describing their work with the cluster:

Computational drug design and virtual screening
Peter Varnai (Chemistry)

GeNN: GPU enhanced neuronal networks (PDF)
Thomas Nowotny (Informatics)

High impact condensed matter science by computer
Malcolm Heggie (Chemistry)

Usage of the Feynman cluster as part of the LHC Grid (PDF)
Nicky Santoyo (Physics)

Job, parameter and data management using a database (PDF)
Emyr James (EPP )

Updated on 8 February 2013