NI-HPC User Conference 2024
About this event
The Northern Ireland High Performance Computing (NIHPC) Facility (https://www.ni-hpc.ac.uk) celebrates 5 years of service, since it’s first compute in 2019. The facility was jointly established by Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University with funding support from EPSRC. It is one of the nine Tier-2 HPC services in the UK and is a powerful facility for researchers to conduct largescale data analytics, simulation and optimization for some of society’s biggest scientific questions and challenges.
The conference brings together both existing and potential users of HPC in Northern Ireland, but will be of particular interest to users who are considering the transition of software and research to the facility to accelerate and improve their research. The current program has two keynote International speakers and a number of talks from users in neuroscience, neurotechnology, precision medicine, pharmacy, hydrogen safety and physics.
4th Northern Ireland High-Performance Computing User Conference.
Ulster University, Derry~Londonderry Campus (Great Hall, MD Building, Ulster University, Magee Campus, BT48 7JL )
Tuesday, 19th November 2024. 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM.
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AGENDA |
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09:15 |
Arrival and registration. Poster placement. Tea, coffee, biscuits and scones. |
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10:00 |
Introduction welcome (Jim Harkin) |
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10:10 |
Keynote 1: Paul Graham “NVIDIA - Accelerating Research”, Nvidia, UK |
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10:45 |
Talk 1. Ruan O'Tiarnaigh: Development of Altomics Maximal Proteome and Peptide Library (AMPPL) using KELVIN-2 |
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11:05 |
Coffee break & Poster session. |
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11:30 |
Talk 2. David Dougan: The Adaptation and Scalability of R-Matrix Calculations for HPC and GPU Use |
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11:50 |
Talk 3. Tony Robinson: Python-based Machine Learning Models for Efficient Genomic Sequence Alignment: A Comparative Analysis of Computational Performance and Memory Footprint |
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12:10 |
Keynote 2: Chris Edsall “Dawn, AIRR and the Near Future of HPC and AI”, Cambridge HPC Zettalab, UK.
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12.45 |
Lunch break & Poster session |
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13:45 |
Talk 4. Kaniska Samanta: Identifying novel neuromarkers for detection of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from resting state magnetoencephalography: a functional connectivity study |
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14:05 |
Talk 5. Jeffrey Johnston: A Comparison of Infinite Wind Farm Arrays with Varying Rotor Tilt Using Large Eddy Simulation |
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14:25 |
Talk 6. Steven Cousens: “PowerBI and Utilization Balance of the NI-HPC” |
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14.45 |
Keynote 3: Dr James Connolly “RAISE: Responsible AI iS an Enabler”, Ulster University. |
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15:20 |
Coffee break & Poster session |
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15:45 |
Talk 7. Cristin Merritt: “Women in HPC”
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16:20 |
Discussion panel. |
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16:50 |
Concluding remarks. |
Discussion panel
- Paul Graham
- Chris Edsall, Cambridge
- Vaughan Purnell, QUB.
- James McGroarty, QUB.
- Jim Harkin, UU.