The 4^th Manchester Multiscale Conference was held online 29 – 31 March 2021. This event was jointly organised by CCPBioSim¹ and CCP5² and sponsored by CECAM³-Daresbury Node. There were 9 invited speakers, 11 contributed talks and 27 posters. The invited speakers were Maria Fyta (Stuttgart, Germany), Frauke Gräter (Heidelberg, Germany), Syma Khalid (University of Southampton, UK), Christopher Horst Lillig (Greifswald, Germany), Céline Merlet (Toulouse, France), Irina Paci (Victoria, Canada), Lars Pastewka (Freiburg, Germany), Anđela Šarić (UCL, UK), and Rebecca Wade (Heidelberg, Germany). The audience comprised 393 registered participants, a near 4-fold increase on an ​​average face-to-face attendance of 100 participants.​

The UK Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows held its annual workshop on March 30-31 with talks from young researchers using the national supercomputer,         ARCHER^​4, alongside leading university researchers and industrial partners. Professor David Emerson (STFC -Energy and Environment Group Leader) sits on the                                                                                                           management committee for this consortium.

CMake Crash Course  -   How to build scientific software for a variety of systems and platforms

Scientific software runs on an incredible variety of systems and architectures, from laptops to clusters, from Linux to OSX to Windows, posing great difficulties in making code available to the community. CMake is an increasingly popular cross-platform open source build system which addresses this problem. The aim of the course was to instruct software developers and scientists in general in how to use the cross platform build system generator CMake in their projects. The course progressed from understanding the basics to the not-so basics.

A reduced group picture at the end of the course

The online course ran over two days (a week apart in April) and was sponsored by CCPi⁵ and CCPSyneRBI⁶​.​ Dr Edoardo Pasca and Dr Alin Elena (both of STFC) devised the material, organised and ran the course. There were 38 attendees mainly from various departments of STFC but also from University College London, Katolieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany).​ Attendance is on a par with last year's 1-day, face-to-face course held at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory that attracted 40 participants overall.​

¹Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) for Biomolecular Simulation

²CCP Computer Simulation of Condensed Phases

³Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire ​

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⁵CCP in Tomographic Imaging

⁶CCP in Synergistic Reconstruction for Biomedical Imaging

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