Making High-End Computing Easier for Social Scientists

Workshop sponsored by the ExCALIBUR-ECP Exchange Programme

18-20 March 2025, The Study Studio, Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, UK

Agenda

Tuesday 18 March

12:30 Arrival and Lunch

14:00 Introduction to the ExAMPLER project (Gary Polhill, The James Hutton Institute)

14:30 Agent-based modelling on GPUs with FLAME GPU (Paul Richmond, University of Sheffield)

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Future directions for NetLogo: Lower Threshold, Higher Ceiling (Jacob Kelter, Northwestern University)

17:00 General discussion

17:30 Close

 

18:30 Dinner: Antalya Restaurant, 103-105 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4HH

Workshop Dinner Photo

Wednesday 19 March

09:00 Arrival and Coffee

09:30 Hands-on Cloud-Based FLAME GPU Tutorial (Paul Richmond)

10:30 Running NetLogo on ARCHER-2 (Gary Polhill)

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Requirements discussion

12:30 Lunch and departure of people who are not staying for the hackathon

14:00 Hackathon: Deciding on options

14:30 Hackathon: Break out into small groups and start hacking

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Hackathon: More hacking

17:00 Hackathon: Report back in plenary

17:30 Close

 

18:30 Dinner: Tas Bloomsbury, 22 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QJ

 

Thursday 20 March

09:00 Arrival and Coffee

09:30 Hackathon: Recap and plan for the day

10:00 (or before) Hackathon: More hacking in small groups

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Report back in plenary and closing remarks (Gary Polhill)

12:00 Lunch

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