Current Clients
High End Compute is currently working with
- Professor Paul Popelier, Univ. of Manchester
- consultancy on CPU Scaling of a computational chemistry code via an optimised memory footprint and advanced OpenMP implementation, currently a 60x speed-up with further improvements expected
- advice on accelerating machine learning codes using optimised MPI-OpenMP hybrid
- Liverpool & Manchester DTP: providing an introduction to thinking parallel 1 day course
- Manchester researcher: modelling electrical & thermal properties of microprocessor chip designs
- Emerging Tech (EMiT) conference series - see our 2016 blog and meet us at #EMiT2019
- a (recently) active editor of Wikipedia on high end and greener compute matters
Previous Clients
High End Compute has previously worked with
- Dr. David Topping to successfully obtain $20K "Azure4Research" award
- financial modelling with a London-based organisation
- a London university: scoping out MPI optimisation work
- a NW university: facilitating user requirements capture for research/technical computing
- a Midlands institution: (tbc) scoping data centre evaluation in terms of energy efficiency
- U/Manchester eco-voucher awarded to Dr. David Topping to engage with SME to evaluate energy savings by porting to KNL
- NERC training course for UK researchers: introduction to parallelism and online/workshop training materials on use of OpenMP to accelerate NERC science
- PSS, a leading independent UK software house/reseller - provision of training video on use of VTune to improve OpenMP codes
- Corridor Travel Manchester, producing a web site and database of cycling buddies
- Dr. David Topping and STEM -- the initial stages involved the production of a parallel pi cluster to illustrate parallel programming and a workshop at MSI Manchester to schoolchildren. Ongoing work involves expanding this to further schools and colleges across the UK and EU
- a partner with ParaTools Inc
- researchers at world class research universities in the UK
- initial help to a major engineering firm
Ongoing Partnerships
HEC/Michael Bane is a member/partner of
- partner of EAO DTP
- Chair of EMiT
- Reviewer for Journal of Supercomputing
- EPSRC grants reviewer
- member
- HiPEAC member
- Intel Xeon Phi User Group
- Mont-Blanc End Users Group (now closed due to project completion)