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HECToR User Group 2008

23 September, 2008 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Organiser: Craig Lucas 		National e-Science Centre Logo
 
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Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=908

There will be a number of talks from users and the service providers, as well as an open forum to allow users to raise any relevant issues with the service partners and the research councils.

Target Audience

This meeting is intended for users of the HECToR Supercomputing Service.

Programme

This event is provisionally scheduled to start at 09:00 Tuesday 23 September 2008 and close at 17:00 on Tuesday 23 September 2008.

09:00 - 09:45Coffee and Registration
09:45 - 10:00Mike Dewar Welcome
10:00 - 10:45EPCC / Cray HECToR System Update
10:45 - 11:00Coffee
11:00 - 11:45Sylvain Laizet, Imperial Direct Numerical Simulation of fractal-generated turbulence
11:45 - 12:30Peter Coveney, UCL Preparing for science at the petascale - real science on up to tens of thousands of cores
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:15 John Harding, Sheffield A computational approach to understanding crystal nucleation and growth
14:15 - 14:45 Fiona Reid, EPCC NEMO on HECToR
14:45 - 15:15 Phil Hasnip, York How can I use a 1000 cores? Lessons in parallel scaling from CASTEP
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee
15:30 - 16:45 HECToR Service Providers Open Forum questions to the panel (EPSRC, NERC, NAG, EPCC and Cray)
16:45 - 17:00Closing remarks

Accommodation

Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

Registration

Registration for this event is now closed. To enquire about an application or to cancel a previous application please contact NeSC Administration.

Related Links

http://www.hector.ac.uk/support/cse/hug/

Important Dates

07 Jul - Registration Opens
16 Sep - Registration Deadline
16 Sep - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
23 Sep - Event Starts at 09:00hrs

Travel

Full details on how to get to the e-Science Institute are available at:

Enquiries

Enquiries should be made directly to our Conference Administrator.

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