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Newsletters
Whilst this Web site is our main dissemination vehicle,
UKHEC will aim to publish approximately two newsletters per year,
containing information on the work of the collaboration.
To subscribe to UKHEC Newsletter, or to send us your comments, please use the
on-line feedback form
Technology Watches
UKHEC provides a series of Technology Watch reports, which
summarise the status of new and developing methodologies and areas of
technology relevant to computational science.
Technical Reports
Technical Reports are in-depth guides to a particular
technical subject which we have found to be of wide interest.
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Software Tools for HEC Applications, 2003.
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Fortran Futures - the New Features of Fortran 2000 a report by John Reid, WG5 Convener.
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Infiniband Architecture: Transforming I/O Technology, an IDC White Paper
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SciDAC: Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing, a report from the U.S. Department of Energy
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SciDAC, Viewgraphs from a presentation by Thom. H. Dunning Jr.
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Mixed MPI - OpenMP Programming: A Study In Parallelisation Of A CFD Multiblock Code, 2002.
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A Grid-Enabled Liquid Crystal Structure Modelling and Visualization Web Portal, 2002.
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Application Performance on High-End and Commodity-class Computers, 2002.
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Developing a Web Portal for the Computational Grid, 2002.
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Overview of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program, 2003.
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Barrier Synchronisation in Java,
2003.
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Java Grande language comparison benchmarks on the IBM p690 system", 2003.
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Point-to-Point Synchronisation on Shared Memory Architectures, 2003.
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Motivation and Requirements for a User
Interface to a Computational Grid in the UK, 2003.
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Developing a Web Portal for the Computational Grid, 2002.
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Potential of Commodity Graphics Hardware for Scientific Computation, 2002.
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Data Distribution, Migration and Replication on a cc-NUMA Architecture, 2002.
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OpenMP: Current Implementations and Future Directions,2002.
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XML for Scientific Applications, 2002
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Applied Numerical Libraries for Parallel Software, August 2002.
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Introduction to Web Services, January 2003.
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Graphical User Environments for Scientific Computing, 2002
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Portable Application Compilation and Building for Fortran 90
- draft, March 2002.
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A Survey of Distributed Computing, Computational Grid,
Meta-Computing and Network Information Tools, 2001
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Investigating use of XML in Java
application codes, December 2001.
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Feedback Guided Scheduling for Two Dimensional Loops, 2001.
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Portable Lattice-Boltzmann in Java, 2001.
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UKHEC report on Software
Estimation, December 2001.
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Software Engineering and Code
Development for HPC Applications, January 2001.
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Designing and Building Beowulf-class
Cluster Computers, December 2000.
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Programming Models for Parallel
Java Applications, September 2000.
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A Review of UK HEC Grid Infrastructure:
State of the Art and Next Steps, July 2000.
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Grid-based High Performance Computing, June 2000.
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Software Quality Assurance for Fortran 90 - A Survey of Available Tools, May 2000.
Visualization Case Studies
Visualization case studies illustrate different aspects of visualization and virtual reality to the UK HEC community.
Technical Guides
Technical guides are brief introductory notes dealing
with a range of programming tools
and techniques. The documents intend to provide an introduction,
and to illustrate why the tool or technique may be of use to you.
Conference Papers and Talks
UKHEC members have presented their work at a number of conferences as listed here.
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Performance of various Computers in Computational Chemistry,
Daresbury, presentation at ScicomP5 conference, Daresbury, 7/5/02.
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Visualization of Historic Data Bases of Sunspot Observations, presented at Manchester via the Access Grid to SC Global as part of the Super Computing 2001 conference on Thursday 15th November.
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A Microbenchmark Suite for OpenMP 2.0, EPCC, in Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on OpenMP (EWOMP'01), Barcelona, Spain, September 2001.
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Performance of Hybrid Message-Passing and Shared-Memory Parallelism for Discrete Element Modeling, presented at SC2000, Dallas, November, 2000.
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Visualization of Seismic Data in Geophysics and Astrophysics, Manchester, presented at the SGI Users'
Conference, Krakow, Poland, 11-14th October, 2000.
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JOMP -- an OpenMP-like
Interface for Java, EPCC, presented at the ACM Java Grande
Conference, San Francisco, 3-5th June, 2000.
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Mixed OpenMP and MPI for
Parallel Fortran Applications, Daresbury, presented at the
EWOMP2000 Confrence, Edinburgh, 14-15/9/2000.
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High Performance Computing and
Beowulf Clusters, Daresbury, presented at the 6th European
SGI/ Cray MPP Workshop, Manchester, 7-8/9/2000.
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Development of Mixed Mode MPI / OpenMP
Applications EPCC, presented at WOMPAT 2000,
a Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools, San Diego, 6-7th July 2000.
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Benchmarking Java Grande Applications, EPCC, presented at The Second International Conference on The Practical Applications of Java, Manchester, U.K., April. 2000.
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A Parallel Java
Grande Benchmark Suite, in proceedings of SC2001, Denver, Colorado,
Nov. 2001.
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Development of mixed mode MPI / OpenMP applications,
Scientific Programming, Vol. 9, No 2-3, 2001, 83-98.
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Benchmarking Java against C and Fortran
for Scientific Applications, in Proceedings of ACM Java Grande/ISCOPE
Conference, June 2001.
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Development and Performance of a Mixed OpenMP/MPI
Quantum Monte Carlo Code, Concurrency: Practice and Experience,
12, 1121-1129, 2000.
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A Multithreaded Java Grande Benchmark Suite,
in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Java for High Performance Computing,
Sorrento, Italy, June 2001.
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An OpenMP-like Interface for Parallel Programming in Java, Concurrency
and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 13, nos. 8-9, pp
793-814, 2001
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Towards OpenMP for Java, in Proceedings of Second European Workshop on
OpenMP, Edinburgh, UK, September 2000, pp. 98-105.
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A Benchmark Suite for High Performance Java,
Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 12, 375-388, 2000.
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Using Java for High Performance Scientific Computing,
presented at the Sun Users Performance Group (SUPerG) Conference Spring 2000, April 2000.
Trip Reports
UKHEC partners have also taken part in workshops worldwide. Reports are provided on those which are of wider interest to the UK community.
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Visualization 2002 Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 27th October - 1st November, 2002.
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Visualization 2001 Conference, San Diego, California, USA, 21st-26th October, 2001.
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IBM ScicomP3 workshop, Barcelona, May 2001.
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SGI Users' Conference,
Krakow, Poland, 11-14th October, 2000.
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The ACM Java Grande Conference,
San Francisco, 3-5th June, 2000.
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WOMPAT 2000, a Workshop on OpenMP
Applications and Tools, San Diego, 6-7th July 2000.
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The Second International Conference
on the Practical Application of Java, Manchester, 12-14th April 2000.
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Ubiquitous Computing Conference, August 3rd, 2000
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IBM ACTC Conference Europe (ScicomP1), April 2-26th, 2000
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1st EGRID Forum Workshop, Poznan, Poland, April 12-13th 2000
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QBIT Software Testing Week, 1999
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IBM ACTC Conference Europe, 1999
Miscellaneous Reports
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