diff --git a/data/talks.yaml b/data/talks.yaml index d2122350c4bab4863bab62509223749c37cf282c..6584ce361e20fffb8585a2b0ab4ef470cb89ad81 100644 --- a/data/talks.yaml +++ b/data/talks.yaml @@ -4,6 +4,41 @@ # 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 diff --git a/talks/EWASS_2018.pdf b/talks/EWASS_2018.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4625d9f0b23afc422f91df35a9e95094c27d7060 Binary files /dev/null and b/talks/EWASS_2018.pdf differ