Research IT

Get Your Code Optimised for Free!

Come along to the Research IT club on the 4th of June to find out more about a free service from POP (Performance Optimisation and Productivity) Centre of excellence in HPC. They provide free of charge performance optimisation and productivity services for (your) academic AND industrial code(s) in all domains.


As well as this feature presentations there will also be updates on the latest news from our Research IT infrastructure team and the Applications and Software team. The event will take place at 3pm on the 4th of June in Lecture Rm E in Zochonis Building. If you would like to attend please register for the event.

Updates from the Research IT teams

  • Research Lifecycle Project (RLP)
  • Research Infrastructure
  • Research Software Engineering

The Performance Optimisation and Productivity (POP) Centre of Excellence

Jon Gibson, Technical Consultant, Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)

The POP is a centre of excellence in HPC, providing free of charge performance optimisation and productivity services for (your) academic AND industrial code(s) in all domains.

Over the initial two and a half years of the POP Centre of Excellence, we provided 174 services to academic and industrial organisations throughout the EU, identifying and implementing improvements to the performance of their parallel codes. A further three years of this free service commenced in December 2018. This talk will discuss what this pan-European collaboration offers and present a variety of examples in which significant improvements were made to code performance.

About the Presenter

Jon Gibson is a Technical Consultant at the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). He has 25 years’ experience in scientific programming and has worked for two national HPC services in the UK. He is currently working on the EU Performance Optimisation and Productivity (POP) project.

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