Industry and academic partners and colleagues are invited to attend any (or all) of the following three events; please register using the link below.
Data-driven Plasma Science and Engineering Workshop
Oxford University, 28 February 2025
The goal of this workshop and associated meetings is to review recent progress and identify gaps and challenges in fusion theory, management, and computation that are directly relevant to integration simulation, with whole device modelling as a long-term goal.
The focus will be on the integration of high-performance computational tools, originally designed for science, into a virtual engineering environment able to enable the collaborative design and fabrication of a feasible fusion reactor able to generate net energy from fusion. The technologies are tool agnostic, applicable to any complex engineering domain, and designed to be incorporated into existing engineering and other relevant platforms (eg Dassault, Siemens, PTC, Nvidia, Aras).
The meeting will focus on the virtual engineering process employing workflow automation and data movement technologies (EFFIS and ADIOS) as essential enabling components for tasks in situ that can facilitate scientific discovery from multiple heterogeneous data sources (simulation, experiment, sensor), and at scales that will enable near real-time decision-making, design optimisation, and data-driven discovery.
We will investigate the incorporation of these tools within a policy-based virtualisation architecture for data-sharing and design evolution management, which is now evolving from a file-based approach to a more streaming-based approach and operating on diverse architectures. We will discuss new developments in executable modelling of cyber-physical systems to automate the design engineering process across domains and design alternatives. Finally, we will investigate the above issues in the context of extending the current generation of commercial engineering technologies, such as Dassault, to determine and make clear their strengths and limitations for complex engineering design having high degrees of uncertainty.
The outcomes will inform how the computational and storage technologies, now being developed for in-situ data analysis and management of scientific experiments, can be extended and integrated into the area of engineering design at production, respecting cross-team IP concerns, and tracking large-scale / duration systems designs. More broadly, it is hoped that the combined meetings will inform the roadmap for the introduction of advanced HPC, system modelling, and in-situ data management capabilities, including real-time control and in-situ analysis algorithms, into a semantically integrated, systematically managed, scientific/engineering lifecycle.
The integration of fusion theory and computation into advanced cyber-physical systems is at the frontiers of fusion research, having high relevance to the emerging field of data-driven engineering. The workshop and meetings offer an extraordinary opportunity to craft new methodologies that enable correct-by-construction of fusion-relevant systems based on embedded scientific knowledge and understanding.
ADIOS User Group Meeting
Oxford University, 27 February 2025
The ADIOS User Group Meeting, also held at Oxford, will include any prominent users from the US and Europe will talk about their success stories using ADIOS in extreme scale storage I/O, in situ data processing and/or code coupling, as well as their newest requirements and requests to the ADIOS team. New topics like campaign management, remote data access, and the design of schemas independent from file formats will be presented by the ADIOS team to gather ideas and feedback from the users.
Open Data Schema Workshop
Location tbc, 26 February 2025
Advanced HPC simulations are critical for understanding the significant challenges in fusion energy and necessary to understand the challenges unique to specific configurations (eg disruption avoidance and mitigation in tokamaks). The data collected from these simulations are necessary to build accurate AI/ML models and to advance the capabilities for the FES foundational science program.
The Open Data Schema Workshop, held prior to the Oxford meetings, will address the challenge through approaches able to address the critical challenges and solutions for developing general, high-level APIs that are able to incorporate diverse engineering and science data and workflows. Specific topics will address the integration of techniques to stream the data for online reduction via machine learning methods, interactive visualisation, and analytic or online training methods that can work with all relevant data from simulations.
Location
The Oxford meetings will be held at the Weston Library (Bodleian), on Broad Street next to Blackwell’s Bookshop, starting 9.30am each day. The Open Data Schema Meeting will be held either on the Culham location of the UK Atomic Energy Authority or at Oxford University at the Weston Library.
Accommodation and travel
Train connections to and from Oxford are frequent (London Paddington Station). Please note that car parking in the city centre is expensive and scarce. Park and Ride is available from the Peartree roundabout, with frequent buses into Oxford city centre. Oxford is about six miles from Culham (UKAEA), with fast but infrequent train connections. Oxford Park and Ride information is available on: https://www.oxford.gov.uk/parkandridesites
Travel to Oxford from Heathrow Airport is via Paddington train station (using the Heathrow Express) or many coach services direct from the airport to Oxford city centre; travel time is about an hour with departures every 30 minutes generally. See, for example, https://www.theairlineoxford.co.uk/oxford-to-heathrow-bus/
Accommodation is available at a variety of prices. On the more inexpensive side, TravelLodge has a hotel at the Peartree Park and Ride with frequent buses to the city centre (about three miles). There is a Premier Inn located directly in the city centre (near the castle and train station) and an EasyHotel located in Summertown (a suburb north of Oxford about a 30-minute walk from the city centre). The Mercure Oxford EastGate Hotel is centrally located (near Merton College). There are a number of more expensive hotels including the Old Bank Hotel and the Old Parsonage Hotel, both located in the city centre.