Merge branch 'ewass_talk' into 'master'

Added EWASS 2018 talk.

See merge request !13

data/talks.yaml

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 # references. Nominally we will use /talks.
 
 cards:
+  - meeting: European Week of Astronomy and Space Science 2018
+    location: Liverpool, UK
+    date: April 2018
+    title: "The next-generation cosmological code SWIFT"
+    author: Matthieu Schaller
+    abstract: "One of the big challenges in simulations of galaxy
+    formation is to harness the raw computing power of the  largest
+    facilities.  With  current  codes  gravity+hydrodynamics code
+    achieving  less  than  0.1%  of  the  available flops, it is
+    important to revisit how we write code for such systems and how we
+    interact with the wider HPC community.
+
+    We  present  the  next-generation  open-source  cosmological  code
+    SWIFT,  created  as  a  joint  effort between  galaxy  formation
+    scientists  and  computer  scientists with  expertise  in
+    parallel  programming. Using task-based parallelism for intra-node
+    parallelisation, asynchronous communications for inter-node
+    communications and SIMD intrinsics for the code kernels, our code
+    is more than 30x faster than the de-facto standard Gadget code on
+    representative cosmological problems. The code also uses much
+    fewer resources allowing to run simulations an order of magnitude
+    larger than is currently doable (e.g. EAGLE, Illustris,
+    Horizon-AGN,...).
+
+    We  implement  multiple  SPH  and  unstructured  hydrodynamics
+    solvers as well as a full test suite to assess the accuracy of the
+    schemes in various situations. This test suite is part of the code
+    release and we highlight good programming practices to make
+    sure the software is usable by the community and interfaces well
+    with other tools (e.g. yt, paraview, ...)." 
+    links:
+      - href: "EWASS_2018.pdf"
+        name: Slides
+    
+
   - meeting: Computational Galaxy Formation 2018
     location: Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany
     date: March 2018