The School of Physical Sciences hosted a cross faculty workshop on 27/28 June focusing on "Shared Challenges in High Performance Computing and Multiscale Modelling"
Following recent upgrade of the University of Liverpool High Performance Computing (HPC) system, establishment of the N8 and Hartree-STFC HPC centres, the workshop provided a compacted overview of the HPC resources available and the research activity in HPC that is currently being undertaken both in Liverpool and XJTLU, China.
The event was attended by staff from across the University of Liverpool and from XJTLU in China and:
- Provided a time-effective overview of the HPC research activity in Liverpool to recently appointed staff members.
- Show-cased applications, method-developments, software and hardware challenges, solutions and accuracy-viability tradeoffs of the HPC research activity in Liverpool.
- Contributed to the establishment of a cross-faculty University network to facilitate knowledge exchange in HPC, and enable prompt reaction to future inter-disciplinary HPC research funding opportunities which may arise.
- Facilitated opportunities for collaboration between Liverpool and XJTLU colleagues in the area of multiscale modelling.