Computational Chemistry on HPCx

Provisional Programme

Wednesday 30th November am
Not Scheduled (travel time)
Wednesday 30th November, pm
13.00-14.30

Introduction
P. Sherwood (CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory)
The HPCx System
Parallel Algorithms for Computational Chemistry - General Principles.

14.30-15.30

Introductory Hands-On Session
Checking Laptop setup
Use of batch queues.
Simple serial and parallel execution.

15.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00-18.00

NWChem
E. Aprà (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Thursday 1st December am
09.00-10.30 DL_POLY
W. Smith, I.Todorov, I.J. Bush (CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory)
10.30-11.00

Coffee

11.00-12.30 CHARMM
P. Sherwood (CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory)
12.30-13.30

Lunch

Thursday 1st December pm
13.30-15.00

GAMESS-UK
M.F. Guest, H.J.J van Dam, J.M.H.Thomas (CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory)

15.00-15.30

Coffee

15.30-18.00

Hands-On Session

Friday 2nd December, am
09.00-12.30 NAMD
J. Pikunic (University of Oxford)
J. Hein (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre)
10.30-11.00

Coffee

11.00-12.30 Status of some other chemistry packages running on HPCx (Gaussian, AMBER, LAMMPS, Molpro, Molcas, ....)
TBA
12.30-13.00

Lunch

Friday 2nd December, pm
Unscheduled for travel time, Room and HPCx access will be available for additional Hands-On work.

Notes

Refreshments

Coffee and Tea will be provided. Lunch is not provided but will be available at the Daresbury Canteen.