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EMiT 2015: Programme & Presentations

EMiT 2015 was held at The Place Aparthotel between June the 30th and July the 1st 2015 in Manchester (UK) and included a list of speakers from both academia and industry. This included presentations from distinguished invited speakers as well as exciting new research from those that successfully submitted work.

The conference was held over two days, with a dinner at the end of day 1. Associated events over the two days immediately followed the EMiT conference.

Presentations were accompanied by an extended printed abstract, which was supplied as a digital collection at the event for each delegate and was also published with an associated ISBN number following the conference.

An abridged version of the submitted extended abstracts is available as ISBN 978-0-9933426-0-8

The slides of the talks given by the speakers are provided for download in the table below.

Day 1

Time Speaker Organisation Topic
Welcome & Keynote 1 (09:30-10:30; 1hr)
09:30-09:45 Dr Benedict Rogers Welcome to the conference and introduction to EMiT
09:45-10:30 Prof. Stephen Furber SpiNNaker and the Human Brain Project
Session 1: Novel Hardware 1 (11:10-12:10; 1hr)
11:10-11:30 Wim Vanderbauwhede Exploring Deep, Hierarchical Pipelines and High-level Synthesis on FPGAs for Accelerating a Legacy Convection Model
11:30-11:50 Peter Düben Reduced numerical precision in weather and climate models
11:50-12:10 Prabu Thiagaraj FPGA processing for High Performance Computing
Keynote 2 (13:10-13:55; 45mins)
13:10-13:55 Prof. Laura Grigori Communication avoiding algorithms
Session 2: Low-power & Energy Efficient Computing (14:00-14:40; 40mins)
14:00-14:20 Neil Morgan Energy Aware Scheduling and Power Measurement on BlueWonder
14:20-14:40 Gaurav Kaul Enabling Exascale Computing with Intel Architecture
Session 3: Real-time GPU Computing (15:20-16:00; 40mins)
15:20-15:40 Peter Strohm Real-time Social Analytics in GPU-based Multi-Dimensional Databases
15:40-16:00 Alistair Revell The Potential for Real-time Computational Fluid Dynamics via GPU acceleration
Chaired Panel Discussion (16:05-17:05; 1hr)

Day 2

Time Speaker Organisation Topic
Keynote 3 (09:00-09:45; 45mins)
09:00-09:45 Dr John Linford Kppa: A high performance source code generator for chemical kinetics
Session 4: Compilers & Portability (09:50-10:30; 40mins)
09:50-10:10 Mark Sinclair-McGarvie High Performance Monte Carlo Simulation Using Tyche
10:10-10:30 Rupert Ford Towards Performance Portability with GungHo and GOcean
Session 5: Novel Hardware 2 (11:10-12:10; 1hr)
11:10-11:30 Hywel Owen Use of Parallel Monte Carlo to Validate Particle Radiotherapy Calculations
11:30-11:50 Andrew Sunderland Optimising performance of the HPC electron collisions R-matrix code PFARM on the Intel Xeon Phi
11:50-12:10 Luke Mason Optimising DL_MESO for Intel Xeon Phi
Keynote 4 (13:10-13:55; 45mins)
13:10-13:55 Dr Filippo Mantovani High Performance Computing based on mobile embedded processors
Session 6: Applications (14:00-15:00; 1hr)
14:00-14:20 Brian Vermeire PyFR: Next-Generation Computational Fluid Dynamics
14:20-14:40 Paul Richmond & Peter Heywood Complex system simulations on the GPU
14:40-15:00 Manish Modani Enabling High-Performance Database Applications on Supercomputing Architectures: Accelerating the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework
Conference Closing (15:00-15:15; 15mins)
Prof. Stephen Furber
Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng is ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK.After completing a BA in mathematics and a PhD in aerodynamics at the University of Cambridge, UK, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. Over 50 billion variants of the ARM processor have since been manufactured, powering much of the world’s mobile and embedded computing. He moved to the ICL Chair at Manchester in 1990 where he leads research into asynchronous and low-power systems and, more recently, neural systems engineering, where the SpiNNaker project is delivering a computer incorporating a million ARM processors optimised for brain modelling applications.
Prof. Laura Grigori
Laura Grigori is Director of Research at INRIA in France.Laura is a senior research scientist at INRIA, where she is leading Alpines group, a joint group between INRIA, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, and CNRS, in Paris. Her field of expertise is in high performance scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, and combinatorial scientific computing. She has performed research in institutions as INRIA, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. She is leading several projects in preconditioning, communication avoiding algorithms, and associated numerical libraries for large scale parallel/multicore machines, and she is a co-developer of SuperLU_DIST, a well known parallel solver for large systems of equations. She is currently the Program Director of the SIAM special interest group on supercomputing.
Dr John Linford
John Linford is a scientist at ParaTools Inc.John received his Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where his dissertation was selected as the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Computer Science. His research interests include emerging computer architectures, automatic code generation, performance analysis, and numerical simulation. He develops tools for chemical kinetic simulation, rotorcraft engineering, software performance analysis, and software environment management. He has been invited to speak at Harvard University and Argonne National Laboratory and was a guest researcher at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Jülich, Germany. He is a National Defence Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow and a Central European Summer Research Institute Fellow. John works for ParaTools, Inc. in Baltimore, MD.
Dr Filippo Mantovani
Filippo Mantovani is technical co-ordinator of the Mont-Blanc project.Filippo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Heterogeneous Architectures group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He graduated in Mathematics and holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Ferrara in Italy. He has been a scientific associate at the DESY laboratory in Zeuthen, Germany, and at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He spent most of his scientific career in computational physics, computer architecture and high performance computing, contributing to the Janus, QPACE and QPACE2 projects. In 2013 he joined BSC’s Mont-Blanc project, becoming recently technical coordinator of the project.

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