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Planning

Support:

• 3-4 Warwick mentors - 10 days time each
• AK: 15 days
• Admin support

Timescales

• Event registration & comms:

  • Set up hub event
  • Ask mentors to promote paper submissions (pre-christmas)
  • Deadline for papers end of February
  • Filter out papers which are out of scope before asking students to select

• Documentation:

  • https://sulis-hpc.github.io/
    • accessing and using the system
    • recreating computational environment
      • modules
      • environments
      • containers: docker vs singularity
    • managing code: especially git
    • managing data.

• Event: March: 21 March - 01 April

Event Format

• Duration: 7 - 10 days

  • In person kick-off: 1 full day.
    • training in morning
    • start hack in afternoon
  • Closing event: 2 - 3 hrs
    • Re-group and present progress
    • Talks
  • Drop in support sessions 2-3 1-2 hr sessions in the week

• Rest of the time asynchronous work

Documentation needs

• Docs on using the HPC systems
• Docs on translating workflows to HPC workflows
  • Configuring HPC computational environments
  • Building Singularity containers?
• Docs for demonstrators

Student Cohorts

• CDT: Modelling heterogeneous systems e.g plasma physics modelling
  • one of the leaders (James) uses a lot of containerisation. Other's just list software used. python, fortran, HPC, openMP MPI.
  • students will have some familiarity with HPC but likely with existing software or a lot of support
• CDT: Mathematics of real world systems
  • less computational training but some lectures on git, HPC, software best practices. Python & Julia familiarity. Interest in machine learning. Big influence of Warwick epidemiology team.
• CDT: AI, heavy users of tensorflow. Reproducibility in tensorflow of interest

Papers

• Request mentor submissions
• Request help from mentors
• Papers with code? https://paperswithcode.com/
• Papers using VASP - using open source version or free of package instead