Conveners
HPC in science: Condensed Matter
- Ivan Girotto
HPC in science: Astrophysics and Earth Science
- Giuliano Taffoni
HPC in science: High Energy Physics
- Andrea Bressan
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Nicola Marzari (EPFL)2/26/16, 8:45 AMQuantum-mechanical simulations have become dominant and widely used tools for scientific discovery and technological advancement; since they are performed without any experimental input or parameter they can streamline, accelerate, or replace actual physical experiments. This is a far-reaching paradigm shift, substituting the cost- and time-scaling of brick-and-mortar facilities, equipment,...Go to contribution page
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Ralph Gebauer (ICTP)2/26/16, 9:25 AMThe availability of cheap and abundant energy was one of the main drivers of the industrial revolution. Until today, energy remains an essential ingredient for many aspects of human activity. Is is recognized that a major challenge of our times is the transition towards sustainable energy conversion, moving away from carbon-based fossil fuels. Developing more efficient and cheaper ways to...Go to contribution page
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Marco Borelli (MHPC - SISSA)2/26/16, 9:45 AMWe developed a parallel implementation of the “Density Peak” clustering algorithm, exploiting C++11, OpenMP and the FLANN library for k-nearest-neighbour search. The modified algorithm is approximately 50 times faster than the original version on datasets with half a million points, and scales almost linearly with the dataset size. Thanks to improvements on the density estimation and...Go to contribution page
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Mr Fernando Posada (MHPC)2/26/16, 10:00 AMMulticenter numerical integration scheme for polyatomic molecules has been implemented as an initial step to develop a complete basis-set-free Hartree-Fock (HF) software. The validation of the integration scheme includes the integration of the total density and the calculation of Coulomb potentials for several diatomic molecules. A finite difference method is used to solve Poisson's equation...Go to contribution page
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Volker Springel (The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)2/26/16, 10:45 AMNumerical simulations on supercomputers play an ever more important role in astrophysics. They have become the tool of choice to predict the non-linear outcome of the initial conditions left behind by the Big Bang, providing crucial tests of cosmological theories. However, the problem of galaxy and star formation confronts us with a staggering multi-physics complexity and an enormous dynamic...Go to contribution page
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Giuseppe Murante (OATS-INAF)2/26/16, 11:15 AM
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Stefano Salon (OGS)2/26/16, 11:35 AM
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Eric Pascolo (MHPC - OGS)2/26/16, 11:55 AMSHYFEM is a finite element hydrodynamic code written by Georg Umgiesser in the 80s to model Venice lagoon for his master thesis; its development has been continued by CNR-ISMAR group. It is one of the few opensource codes for coastal areas that use a finite element approach. SHYFEM is a very important resource because it is focused on coastal areas and can be coupled it with other software in...Go to contribution page
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Sanzio Bassini (CINECA)2/26/16, 12:15 PM
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Federico Carminati (CERN)2/26/16, 2:15 PM
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Silvano Simula (INFN - Roma3)2/26/16, 2:55 PM
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Massimo Masera (Università di Torino)2/26/16, 3:15 PM
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Jimmy Aguilar Mena (MHPC - ICTP)2/26/16, 3:35 PMThis thesis presents two experiences of hybrid programming applied to condensed matter and high energy physics. The two projects differ in various aspects, but both of them aim to analyse the benefits of using accelerated hardware to speedup the calculations in current science-research scenarios. The first project enables massively parallelism in a simulation of the Anderson localisation...Go to contribution page