Bioinformatics and more widely Computational Biology is a largely data-driven Science. The array of high-throughput technology platforms in the last 10 years mean that the amount of data being generated in this field is likely to enter into Exa

Solar analysis - the journey from two weeks to one hour with HPC (38 mins, ~24 MB)

Mar 14th, 2014 38m

Performing complex solar shading analysis to take into account the sun's path and solar penetration on large buildings has historically consumed very many CPU cycles for IES "Virtual Environment" (3D building physics) simulation users. One part

High Performance Computing - Driving innovation and capability: Ian Wardrope, Intel (55 mins, ~40 MB)

Feb 28th, 2014 55m

Intel will provide an insight into future HPC technology development looking at hardware trends, ecosystem support and the challenges around ExaScale computing.The talk will also touch upon the convergence of High Performance Computing and Hig

PrimeGrid: Join in the search for a world record prime number (45 mins, ~41 MB)

Sep 7th, 2013 45m

PrimeGrid is a volunteer computing project that gives participants the chance to be the discoverer of a new world record prime number! In addition, we are working towards the solution of several mathematical problems which have remained unsolve

The Power of Many: Running Many Simulations on Many : Dr. Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University (57 mins, ~28 MB)

Apr 2nd, 2013 57m

There are several important science and engineering problems that require the coordinated execution of multiple high-performance simulations. Some common scenarios include but are not limited to, "an ensemble of tasks", "loosely-coupled simulat

Games: Playing with Threads: Ben Nicholson, Frontier Developments (53 mins, ~21 MB)

Mar 22nd, 2013 53m

In this talk I will give a brief history of parallel processing in games and how the industry has responded to hardware changes in its constant race to create games with more, better and faster. I then consider some of the lessons we have learn

Fast as Lightning: High Performance Computing at the Met Office: Dr. Chris Maynard, Met Office (59 mins, ~27 MB)

Mar 15th, 2013 59m

The Met Office hosts some the largest computers in the UK to predict the weather and changes in the climate. Best known for the Public Weather Service, the Met Office also advises UK government and other organisations world wide. The difficulti

Data Centric Deep Computing: Dr. Crispin Keable, IBM (59 mins, ~27 MB)

Mar 1st, 2013 59m

This talk will look at the drivers leading the way to Exascale computing. It will examine technology trends, and use these to infer some of the characteristics of future large scale HPC systems. It will also look in to what this means for the s

FireGrid - A better response to fire emergencies: Dr. George Beckett, EPCC (42 mins, ~20 MB)

Mar 23rd, 2012 42m

Building design has been revolutionised in recent years. New materials and better construction techniques have allowed bespoke andimpressive public spaces to be created. Consider the Millennium Dome, Hong Kong airport, or the 2012 Olympic stad

GPU Computing: Past, Present and Future (47 mins, ~21 MB)

Mar 2nd, 2012 47m

The past five years have seen the use of graphical processing units for computation grow from being the interest of handful of early adopters to a mainstream technology used in the worldâ€™s largest supercomputers. The CUDA GPU programming ecos

Prime numbers, large integer arithmetic and a 2PF task farm: Iain Bethune, EPCC (43 mins, ~21 MB)

Oct 14th, 2011 43m

We will review some basic properties and theorems regarding prime numbers, and take a quick trip through the history of prime number searching. Secondly, we will discuss two classes of algorithms of importance for computational primality tes

An introduction to distributed version control systems: Lawrence Mitchell, EPCC (60 mins, ~54 MB)

Mar 16th, 2011 1h

There is a plethora of version control systems and it is not obvious which to choose. Doyou pine for the warm, comforting blanket of CVS? Fear not! I shall give an overview of the zoo of version control systems available to the modern programm

Building Cloud Infrastructures (looking inside Flexiscale) (63 mins, ~29 MB)

Feb 11th, 2011 1h 3m

Cloud computing has become one of the most advertised and talked about technologies for the past few years since many ISPs/IT firms have begun to adopt virtualisation technologies. As cloud technologies mature, more and more businesses are movi

Fluidity: an adaptive, unstructured mesh CFD framework. Applications, software development methods and parallel performance: Dr Jon Hill, Imperial College London (48 mins, ~22 MB)

Jan 28th, 2011 48m

Fluidity is a powerful Computational Fluid Dynamics framework developed at Imperial College over the last 20 years. Fluidity can be applied to a number of scientific applications, ranging from classic CFD, to oceans and multi-material problems.

Applications of HPC to Materials Chemistry: Dr. Scott Woodley, University College London (55 mins, ~38 MB)

Jan 21st, 2011 55m

The Materials Chemistry Consortium (MCC) is the single largest consumer of resources on the HECToR National Supercomputer. In this talk I will give an overview of how MCC members exploit HECToR in a wide range of materials chemistry research an

High Performance Storage with SSDs: Barry Whyte, IBM UK (51 mins, ~47 MB)

Mar 19th, 2010 51m

Traditional disk technology has lagged behind processor and memory technology for some time. During this session we will discuss what the problems are and how new technologies such as enterprise class Solid State Drives (SSD) are helping. Until

Lightning Fast! HPC at the Met Office (63 mins, ~57 MB)

Feb 26th, 2010 1h 3m

The Met Office has long used high performance computing to support its activities in weather prediction and climate research. This talk starts by giving an overview of the numerical weather prediction process and continues with a look at the HP

Instruction Level Parallelism - a historical perspective: Prof. Roland Ibbett, EPCC (70 mins, ~64 MB)

Feb 5th, 2010 1h 10m

This talk traces the development of the different types of instruction-level parallelism that have been incorporated into the hardware of processors from the early 1960s to the present day. We will see how the use of parallel function units in

Lattice QCD, HPC and GPUs: Dr Alistair Hart, University of Edinburgh (63 mins, ~58 MB)

Jan 22nd, 2010 1h 3m

Lattice QCD is a very important tool for understanding the Standard Model of particle physics. It presents enormous computational challenges, both in carrying out simulations and in making sure they are as efficient as possible. This lecture ex

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