Parallel Simulations in the Network
The RES (Spanish Supercomputing Network), coordinated by BSC, in collaboration with UZ (Zaragoza University) and BIFI (Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems) organized the RES Scientific Seminar of Parallel Simulations in the Network the 30 November 2010.
The discretization of space (and even time) greatly reduces the freedom degrees and speeds up the simulations. Also an appropiate discretization in problems where the interaction is relatively local, allows the parallelization in a highly efficient way.
Parallel simulations can be applied to different research areas such as Molecular Dynamics of Condensed Matter, peptide, protein, docking, Lattice Gauge with and without fermines dynamic finite element or Monte Carlo simulations of magnetic systems among many others.
In these models the high parallel efficiencies are obtained not only discretizing space or time, but also developing numerical and computational algorithms.
In the seminar, users learnt the basics of the methods that can be applied in order to develop parallel processes in their simulations and as a result getting the improvement of their algorithms.
10.30h - Welcome (M.González, BSC-CNS)
10.45h - Panorama de las e-Infraestructuras en España y Europa (V. Castelo, CSIC-
MICINN)
11.20h - Coffee break
11.30h - First principles modelling with Octopus (A.Castro, BIFI-UZ; J.Alberdi & A.Rubio,
UPV,EHU)
12.20h - Dedicated Computers in Physics and Biology (D. Navarro, I3A-UZ; J.M. Gil &
A.Tarancón, BIFI-UZ)
13.10h - Parallelism in Cosmological Simulations (Stephen Knollmann, UAM)
14.30h - Lunch break
15.30h - ACEMD2: High-performance molecular dynamics on GPUs (Gianni De Fabritiis, UPF)
16.10h - Entering the era of high precision computations in low-energy Quantum Chromodynamics (Carlos. Pena, UAM-CSIC)
16.50h - Coffee break
17.10h - Large-Scale eigenvalue computations with SLEPc (J.Román, UPV)
17.50h - Closing
18.00h - End of the seminar
Find here the agenda in pdf format: Parallel Simulations Agenda
Please contact with trainings-res
bsc [dot] es in case you require further information.
The seminar was aimed at all the RES users, researchers and students. It was conducted in Spanish and English.
