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The PRISM team is pleased to invite you to participate in a Coding Hackathon retreat to be held on Tuesday 18/04/2023 – Thursday 20/04/2023 to underpin our software projects and share comment expertise.  The residential retreat will take place at Missenden Abbey and will primarily be in a flexible format but we actively encourage engagement […]

Date and Time: Monday 9 January 2023, 11:00 – 17:00 GMT Tuesday 10 January 2023, 09:00 – 17:00 GMT Wednesday 11 January 2023, 09:00 – 13:00 GMT Location: Reed Hall, University of Exeter, Streatham Drive, Exeter EX4 4QR Overview In this workshop we will focus on time-parallel methods. Following exciting developments in both mathematical analysis […]

PRISM team memebers were awarded with the following ExCalibur projects: Prof Kelly is collaborating with colleagues at Edinburgh on  Efficient Cross-Domain DSL Development for Exascale (ukri.org). The project web page is avaiable here:  xDSL PI David Moxey, co-PIs Chris Cantwell and Spencer Sherwin are part of the UKAEA-funded project NEPTUNE (Neutrals & Plasma Turbulence Numerics […]

The slightly inaccurately named Firedrake ‘22 user and developer workshop will be held at Dartington Hall in Totnes from 4-6 January 2023. The event is cohosted by the University of Exeter and Imperial College London. The workshop is an opportunity for Firedrake users and developers to engage with each other to communicate the ways that […]

PRISM Co-PI Prof Matt Piggott from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London’s was involved in preparation of Primer on Programming in Python and Mathematical/Computational Techniques for Scientists and Engineers. The primer is (currently) split into four sections: Modules Coding Mathematics Geosciences If you are interested in resources related to this primer, […]

JCP seminar featuring Prof. Peter Vincent on PyFR: Latest Developments and Future Roadmap: https://cassyni.com/events/34SPqPcia9jHFfdaQsyf7B

The series comprises invited talks on a range of topics related to the theory of high-order Flux Reconstruction schemes, their implementation in the PyFR (www.pyfr.org) flow solver, and their application to industrially relevant flow problems. The overarching objective of the series is to help bridge the gap between academic research activities and real-world industrial requirements. […]

PyFR 1.15.0: Improved performance and scaling of CUDA backend. Improved performance across all backends via revised GiMMiK kernels. Support for detecting load imbalances for multi-rank simulations. Support for heterogeneous CPUs in the OpenMP backend. A quick remidner PyFR v1.14.0 was released in May 2022  and PyFR v1.13.0 in February 2022: https://pyfr.org

The latest version of Nektar++, v5.2.0, was released on the 23rd August 2022. This release includes a range of new features and improvements over the 5.1.0 release. A full list of the changes is available in the CHANGELOG.md file distributed with the source code. As always, if you encounter any problems please feel free to […]

The Nektar++ team recently gave an online seminar as part of the Computer Physics Communications seminar series. This is available to watch here. DOI: 10.52843/cassyni.079b94