[SORSE] Improving performance of parallel applications and your career as an RSE

Session

Talks

Oct 16, 2020, 9:00 AM

Virtual (Zoom)

1. How to understand and improve the performance of your parallel applications using the POP Methodology

Fouzhan Hosseini (The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG))

10/16/20, 9:00 AM

HPC applications are often very complex and their behavior depends on a wide range of factors from algorithms, to programming models, library and language implementations and hardware. The task of understanding performance bottlenecks of a parallel code and making improvements often ends up being a daunting trial and error process. To make the problem even more complicated, many HPC...

2. Becoming a self-employed RSE web developer.

Teri Forey

10/16/20, 9:30 AM

This is a two part talk, initially focussing on how I changed career and established a sole trader business, the second part on the latest web development techniques I use.

Early last year I started doing additional web and mobile app development in my evenings and weekends, leading me to start my own sole trader business. In January I became self-employed full time, leaving my RSE job at the...