ICHEC Seminar 2007
ICHEC would like to extend its thanks to the speakers and attendees of this year's seminar, we hope you found it a worth while experience. A selection of the talks can be found here.
The Royal Irish Academy is hosting the ICHEC Annual Seminar for 2007. It will take place on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th of December
2007 at Academy House, the home of the Academy (travel information):
Academy House,
19 Dawson Street,
Dublin 2.
Attendance is by invitation only. If you would like to attend please contact ICHEC at this address with your request and contact details.
The event will begin with registration and lunch in Academy House at 12:30 on Thursday 13th and will take the form of three different
sessions over the two days:
| Session 1, 13th Dec. | Capability Computing | |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30-13:25 | Registration & In House Lunch | Courtesy of Bull |
| 13:25-13:30 | Prof. David Fegan, Science Secretary RIA | Welcome to the Royal Irish Academy |
| 13:30-14:00 | Prof. Fionn Murtagh, Director ICT Directorate Science Foundation Ireland | Opening remarks |
| 14:00-14:20 | Dr. Jean-Christophe Desplat, Acting Director ICHEC | ICHEC in 2007, and beyond... |
| 14:20-15:20 | Keynote: Prof. Peter Coveney, University College London | Capability Computing: Essential Infrastructure to Support Bigger, Better, Faster Science |
| 15:20-15:50 | Dr. Jiri Vala, National University of Ireland, Maynooth | Topological quantum materials: paving the road to quantum computing |
| 15:50-16:10 | Tea Break | Courtesy of Allinea Software |
| 16:10-16:40 | Prof. Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin | Computational Nanoscience: Solving big problems for small objects on big computers |
| 16:40-17:40 | Dr. Nicholas Allsopp, IBM's Deep Computing Division | Scaling codes on the Blue Gene architecture, some practical experiences |
| 18:00-20:00 | In House Wine Reception | Courtesy of IBM |
| Session 2, 14th Dec. | e-Infrastructure | |
|---|---|---|
| 08:40-9:00 | Morning Coffee | |
| 09:00-09:40 | Giovanni Giovinazzo, Research Analyst Engitech & Belief Project | Benefits & impact of e-Infrastructure in learning, health and government. |
| 09:40-10:20 | Dr. Jarek Nabrzyski, Applications Dept. Manager PSNC | eScience Infrastructure in Poland |
| 10:20-10:50 | Neil P Chue Hong, Director OMII-UK | UK e-Infrastructure: increasing access, widening participation. |
| 10:50-11:10 | Tea Break | Courtesy of Allinea Software |
| 11:10-11:40 | Niall Wilson, ICHEC | A blueprint for Irish national e-Infrastructure. |
| 11:40-12-20 | Dr. Roger S. Barga, Architect Technical Computing Group Microsoft Research | A Platform for Data Intensive eResearch |
| 12:20-13:05 | Keynote: Dave Turek, Vice President, Deep Computing IBM | The Cambrian Explosion in Supercomputing: The Emergence and Impact of New Computational Designs |
| 13:05-13:50 | In House Lunch | Courtesy of Bull |
| Tutorial | ||
|---|---|---|
| 13:50-14:10 | Gordon Cook, Allinea | Debugging and Optimizing Applications for MPP Architectures |
| Session 3, 14th Dec. | Environmental Sciences | |
| 14:10-14:40 | Prof. Peter Lynch, UCD | Climate Modelling: The Big Crunch |
| 14:40-15:10 | Ray McGrath, Head of R&A Division Met Éireann | Regional Climate Modelling in Ireland |
| 15:10-15:30 | Alastair McKinstry, Software Architect ICHEC | Meteorological code development at ICHEC |
| Dr. Jean-Christophe Desplat, Acting Director ICHEC | Closing Remarks |
The above is a draft agenda and is subject to change. Additional details about the guest speakers and the topics of their talks will be added in due course. Details of last year's seminar can be found here.
