Aug. 1, 2023 — Within the perpetual race for elevated computational energy to gas scientific breakthroughs the significance of discovery and innovation within the discipline of excessive efficiency computing (HPC) can’t be understated. Recognizing the importance of fostering expertise on this discipline, the NAG HPC Pupil Award was launched this yr.
This award acknowledges and rewards the distinctive achievements of scholars on the HPC course on the College of Bristol. Becoming a member of the NAG pupil awards in numerical evaluation, mathematical finance, and computational fluid dynamics, the NAG HPC Pupil Award is awarded yearly.
NAG Innovation Director Honors Prime-Performing Pupil
The inaugural NAG HPC Pupil Award was offered to Thomas Lane Cassell, throughout a prize-giving ceremony on Commencement Day, July 28, 2023. Dr. Benjamin Mogg, NAG Innovation Director, had the glory of commending Thomas for his distinctive efficiency on the HPC course. The ceremony additionally acknowledged two joint runner-up college students, Joshua Clough and Rob Jones, for his or her wonderful course performances.
HPC Course on the College of Bristol
The HPC module on the College of Bristol proved to be an thrilling and rewarding expertise for the scholars. Thomas expressed his enthusiasm for the course, significantly the problem of optimizing a Lattice Boltzmann methodology algorithm utilizing varied programming fashions, equivalent to OpenMP, MPI, and OpenCL. The spotlight of the course for him was implementing the algorithm on a GPU, providing useful insights into the world of GPU programming.
Joshua and Rob, joint award runners-up additionally shared their appreciation for the HPC course. Joshua highlighted the hands-on publicity to HPC software program and {hardware}, utilizing the BlueCrystal supercomputer, which gave him invaluable insights into fixing advanced computational issues. Rob emphasised the importance of HPC in facilitating breakthroughs throughout varied scientific disciplines and praised the standard of the course supply by Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith and Dr Tom Deakin.
Congratulations to the Awardees
NAG extends heat congratulations to the deserving winner, Thomas Lane Cassell, and the joint runners-up, Joshua Clough and Rob Jones, for his or her excellent achievements. NAG seems ahead to following their future successes in no matter comes subsequent.
For those who’d like extra info on NAG’s Pupil Awards do attain out to [email protected].
About NAG
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) offers industry-leading numerical software program and technical providers to banking and finance, vitality, engineering, and market analysis, in addition to educational and authorities establishments. World-renowned for the NAG Library ─ essentially the most rigorous and sturdy assortment of numerical algorithms obtainable ─ NAG additionally gives Computerized Differentiation, Machine Studying, and Mathematical Optimization merchandise, in addition to world-class technical consultancy throughout HPC and Cloud HPC, code porting and optimisation, and different areas of numerical computing. Based greater than 50 years in the past from a multi-university enterprise, NAG is headquartered in Oxford, UK with places of work within the UK, US, EU, and Asia. For extra info, go to nag.com/aboutus.
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