Dr Peter Heywood

Talks

• 2025

  • "Reasonable Performance Computing SIG (SIG-RPC): Help Identify and Document Performance Traps in Research Software (Workshop)"

    Chisholm R, FitzJohn R, Heywood P
    2025-09-10 - RSECon25

  • "Benchmarking Celeritas"

    Heywood P
    2025-04-11 - GridPP53 & SWIFT-HEP09

    Slides Source

  • "Panel: The impact of AI and machine learning on DRI workflows"

    Chair: Martin Callaghan; Panellists: Jianping Meng, Keming Yang, Stephen Mander, Peter Heywood
    2025-01-15 - N8 CIR DRI Retreat 2025

    Watch Recording

• 2024

  • "VecGeom surface_model profiling"

    Heywood P
    2024-11-12 - SWIFT-HEP #8 Joint with ExaTEPP

    Slides Source

  • "N8 CIR Bede: GH200 pilot"

    Heywood P
    2024-05-17 -

    Slides Source

  • "Update on Bede / NICE"

    Alan Real, Peter Heywood
    2024-04-09 - ResearchComputing@Sheffield 2024

    Slides

  • "Profiling Celeritas"

    Heywood P
    2024-03-27 - GridPP51 & SWIFT-HEP07

    Slides Source

  • "Panel: DRI system components"

    Panellists: Emma Barnes, Pete Heywood, Peter Hill, Sam Bland, Simon Burbridge, Simon Hood
    2024-03-20 - N8 CIR DRI Retreat 2024

    Watch Recording

  • "Panel: What lies ahead for DRI tech?"

    Panellists: Alistair Basden, Bill Ayres, Emma Barnes, Pete Heywood, Phil Hasnip, Christopher Woods
    2024-03-20 - N8 CIR DRI Retreat 2024

    Watch Recording

  • "Progress report: Profiling Celeritas on Nvidia GPUs"

    Heywood P
    2024-01-23 - ExaTEPP workshop (January 2024)

    Slides Source

• 2023

  • "GPU Profiling with Celeritas"

    Heywood P
    2023-06-21 - ExaTEPP workshop (June 2023)

    Slides Source

• 2022

  • "Panel: Usability"

    Chair: Marion Weinzierl. Panellists: Andrew Edmondson, Pete Heywood, Mike Payne, Richard Regan
    2022-03-29 - N8 CIR DRI Retreat 2022

    Watch Recording

  • "HPC Beyond Sheffield: JADE and Bede Presentation"

    Heywood P
    2022-02-17 - Lunchbytes: High Performance Computing (HPC) at Sheffield and Beyond

    Slides Source

• 2019

  • "FLAME GPU"

    Heywood P, Kabiri Chimeh M
    2019-05-29 - Planning the Future of Agent Simulation

    Hosted at Keele University, hosted by Fiona Polack.

    Slides

  • "Large-Scale Road Network Simulations for Smart Cities"

    Heywood P, Richmond P, Maddock S, Chisenholm R, Pyle J
    2019-03-19 - GPU Technology Conference 2019

    Session S9387

    Slides Watch Recording

• 2018

  • "Improving Transport Simulation Performance using Graphics Processing Units"

    Heywood P, Richmond P
    2018-06-14 - Northmost 03 Workshop

    Slides

  • "Accelerating Road Network Simulations using GPUs"

    Heywood P
    2018-05-23 - Oxford e-Research Centre Many Core Seminar Series

    Slides

  • "Accelerating Road Network Simulations using GPUs"

    Heywood P
    2018-04-30 - COM4521 Guest Lecture

    Slides

• 2017

  • "SATGPU - A Step Change in Model Runtimes"

    Wright I, Heywood P
    2017-11-16 - Saturn User Group Meeting(s) 2017

    Epsom UGM (2017-11-03) & Leeds UGM (2017-11-16)

    Slides

  • "Improved UTMC through GPU-Accelerated Microscopic Road Network Simulation"

    Heywood P, Richmond P
    2017-11-08 - Highways UK 2017 Intelligent Infrastructure Challenge

    Slides

  • "Simulating Complex Systems with FLAME GPU (Tutorial)"

    Chimeh M, Richmond P, Heywood P
    2017-09-06 - European Conference on Artificial Life 2017

• 2016

  • "PED: Pedestrian Environment Designer"

    McIlveen J, Maddock S, Heywood P, Richmond P
    2016-09-16 - Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2016

    Slides

  • "Alternative GPU friendly assignment algorithms"

    Richmond P, Heywood P
    2016-06-02 - Modelling World 2016

    Slides

  • "Accelerating Transport Demand Assignment using GPUs"

    Heywood P
    2016-05-09 - COM4521 Guest Lecture

  • "Accelerating Transport System Micro-Simulations Using CUDA"

    Heywood P, Richmond P
    2016-04-07 - GPU Technology Conference 2016

    Session S6404

    Slides Watch Recording

  • "The Digital Ossuary: Rothwell (Northamptonshire, UK)"

    Crangle J, Heywood P, Hadley D, Craig-Atkins E, Maddock S, Scott R, Wiles A, Hodgson T, Shui W
    2016-03-31 - Computer Applications & Quantative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2016

  • "The Digital Ossuary: Rothwell (Northamptonshire, UK)"

    Crangle J, Heywood P, Hadley D, Craig-Atkins E, Maddock S, Scott R, Wiles A, Hodgson T, Shui W
    2016-03-21 - Rothwell Charnel Chapel Open Day and Website Launch

• 2015

  • "Road Network Simulation using FLAME GPU"

    Heywood P, Richmond P, Maddock S
    2015-10-29 - VRGraphicS Seminar

    Slides

  • "Visualising Real Time Large Scale Micro-Simulation of Transport Networks"

    Heywood P, Richmond P, Maddock S
    2015-09-16 - CGVC 2015

    Slides

  • "Road Network Simulation using FLAME GPU"

    Heywood P, Richmond P, Maddock S
    2015-08-24 - PADABS 2015

    Slides

  • "Complex system simulations on the GPU"

    Richmond P, Heywood P
    2015-07-01 - EMiT 2015

    Presented on behalf of Dr Paul Richmond