The "Roadmap to Agent-Based Modelling at Exascale" workshop on 29-30 April 2024, the Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow. This workshop follows on from visioning workshops that took place at the Social Simulation Conference (September 2023) and UCL (November 2023) to outline what needs to be done to bring those visions into reality. Attending the earlier workshops is not necessary to make a valuable contribution to the workshop at the University of Glasgow.
Provisional agenda:
29 April
10:30 Arrival, registration and coffee
11:00 Welcome and introduction to the workshop
- Gary Polhill (The James Hutton Institute) – A roadmap towards exascale agent-based modelling: A brief overview of the ExAMPLER project
- Richard Milton (CASA, University College London) – Identifying the crucial challenges for ABSS at exascale
11:30 Experts' experiences using high-performance computing with agent-based models
- Peter Challenor (Exeter) – Gaussian process emulation: a tool for computationally expensive modelling
- Louise Kimpton (Exeter) – Gaussian Process Emulation with Agent Based Models: A Worked Example
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Experts' experiences continued
- Diana Suleimenova (Brunel) & Arindam Saha (UCL) Applications of Exascale Agent-based Modelling: Predicting Migration Patterns and Infectious Diseases
- Brief presentation by Warwick Economics and Development (Alex Owen-Doyle and Andrew Ledger) on their work evaluating the Strategic Priorities Fund ExCALIBUR Programme (through which ExAMPLER is funded)
- Sarah Wise (CASA, UCL) Complex symptoms: understanding epidemics from the perspective of complexity science
14:30 Coffee
14:45 Workshop
- Introduction by Michael Batty (CASA, UCL). Exascale requirements as identified in the previous 'visions' workshops; synergies with other areas – e.g. econometrics, microsimulation, housing and transport
15:00 Group work
- What needs to be done to achieve parallelization / accelerator exascale Agent-Based Social Simulation?
15:30 Group discussion
- Drafting a roadmap for exascale ABM
16:45 Wrap-up
17:00 Close of day 1
19:00 Workshop dinner, Kelvin Suite, Grosvenor Hotel
30 April
09:00 Arrival and coffee
09:30 Group work
- How to get from here to there – migration of tools, development of new tools, processes for ABSS modelling?
- Evolution of existing methodology into exascale ABM. Revolutionary ideas for changing how ABM is achieved at exascale. What are the science drivers for exascale ABM?
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Presentation of group work
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Plenary discussion and next steps
15:00 Finish
