Seminar 20th October 2016 11 a.m. 176L/1107
NGCM Seminar - Software Engineering, Enabling the Exa-Scale
Dr Ian Bush, EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow
Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University
- Categories
- NGCM, Software Engineering
- Submitter
- Susanne Ufermann Fangohr
Dr Ian Bush
Summary
In this talk I shall briefly describe my role as a Research Software Engineer. This means I'm the guy who turns the ideas of the scientific computational modellers into efficient, portable, maintainable code, and in particular how I help the modellers exploit very large "supercomputers". I'll talk briefly about the techniques used, and then give a whistle stop tour of the projects I am involved, which cover most things from an atomic level understanding of quite why X-rays are bad for us, through practical problems in car-design, to modelling fusion power in the largest Tokamak project to date. For a little more information see http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=6006