I have now completed teaching at UoL and am now lecturing at MMU, and advancing my research in energy efficient high end compute... Meanwhile, a little history...

I am a Senior Fellow of the HEA. My teaching at Liverpool currently focuses on HPC (high performance computing), Data Science/Big Data and AI, with my research centred on energy efficient perfomant computing. I am academic lead for the Faculty's "Education Enhancement Group" and a leading member of the Infrastructure subgroup of 'Digital' Research Theme at the University of Liverpool. I led on the UG Year in Industry Placements for the Department of Computer Science (2019-2020), and am the "go to" person in the EEE/CS School for all matters on HPC. I also mentored the student team to 'silver' in the inaugural CI-UK HPC Student Cluster Competition.

I am happy to receive enquiries for PhD candidancy in the topics discussed below (albeit hosted by MMU)

Teaching Related

• COMP328: High Performance Computing, COMP528 module - Multi-core & Multi-processor Computing, and an advanced HPC course (contact me for details). These cover HPC (defined in a wide sense) on CPU, GPU, FPGA and emerging technologies including quantum &;amp; neuromorphic
• MSc Group Projects (COMP530) where I have supported >65 MSc students split in to 9 groups to develop indepth projects
• expansion of industrial engagement with the MSc
• exploring teaching of elements of the MSc to wider audiences including proposed quantum computing course for industry
• the pedagogy of HPC and related matters
• my Teaching/Scholarship pages, including tips of remote teaching etc (please contact me at MMU if interested)

Research Related

• performance-portable CPU|FPGA
• energy efficient compute: I am currently working with partners to submit Royal Society and EPSRC Fellowship grants
• extending the boundaries of quantum computing
  • investigator of "@LivUni Quantum Computing Network"
  • funding applications for Quantum Aerosol Processes, in association with a number of partners
  • materials from QLM/myQLM training (Nov2019 with Atos) available upon request

HPC, AI, Data Science, Big Data Resources

• HPC Facilities available to UoL Research and Teaching
• MS Teams team for students interested in entering HPC, AI & Data Science competitions -- this Team has now ''closed''. I'm leading on new challenges when I start my new job...

Positions of responsibility

• manager, Centre for AI Solutions (CAIS)
• member of Program Committee of EduPar-21: 11th NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education, help in conjunction with 35th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IDPDS 2021)
• Academic Lead, Faculty of Science & Engineering Education Enhancement Group
• member of Infrastructure subgroup of UoL's "Digital" Research Theme
• Deputy Chair, UoL/Industrial Liaison Committee & UG Student Placement Coordinator 2019/2020

Positions in a Personal Capacity

• Chair of EMiT (Emerging Tech) conference series. most recent proceedings - watch this space for news on next "upskilling industry" workshop (FPGA + Quantum Computing)
• Founder of High End Compute Ltd - including online HPC training including parallel programming primer

• Konstantinos Panagiotis ALEXANDRIDIS - PhD candidate 2019-2023
• Hamed ALGHAMDI - MSc 2019-2020 Dissertation, "The role of Cloud for Efficient HPC Pedagogy", Univ. of Liverpool (Oct 2020).
• Matthew CARTER - MSc 2018-2019 Dissertation, "Determination of the Usability of FPGA Technology to Accelerate Option Pricing Algorithms", Univ. of Liverpool (Sept 2019). Matthew was a 2018-2019 winner of the "Ann Maybrey Prize" for excellent performance as evidenced by obtaining the highest overall marks during his MSc
• Tsung-Ta "Jeffrey" HSIEH - MSc 2018-2019 Dissertation, "Determination of the Usability of FPGA Technology to Accelerate Process of Solving Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors", Univ. of Liverpool (Sept 2019)
• Chris JONES - MSc 2019-2020/2020-2021, CFD on FPGA
• Ryan LLEWELLYN - MSc 2019-2020 Dissertation, "Using ML for Improved Energy Efficient Computing", Univ. of Liverpool (Oct 2020).

Selected Recent-ish Publications

• 2020: J. C. Adams et al., "Lightning Talks of EduHPC 2020," 2020 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC), GA, USA, 2020, pp. 59-64, doi: 10.1109/EduHPC51895.2020.00013. which discusses SC20 presentation "Evolving the Traditional Student Cluster Competition as Tomorrow’s “Peachy Assignments”, EduHPC20: Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing, Supercomputing 2020.
• 2019: "Proceedings of the 2019 Emerging Technology Conference". Editors: M.K.Bane and V.Holmes, ISBN 978-0-9933426-4-6
• 2019: UK OpenMP Users Conference: "Lessons from Coarse Grained OpenMP Parallelisation and Code Optimisations to Accelerate Quantum Computational Chemistry FORTRAN90 Code 'FFLUX'", Benjamin Symons and Paul Popelier, University of Manchester. Michael Bane, High End Compute Ltd
• 2018: Energy Efficient Computing Research at STFC Hartree Centre, Michael Bane, poster, ISC2018
• 2017: "Accelerating activity coefficient calculations using multicore platforms, and profiling the energy use resulting from such calculations", David Topping, Irfan Alibay, and Michael Bane, EGU2017-12246. (2017)
• 2016: "FEREBUS: Highly Parallelized Engine for Kriging Training", N. Di Pasquale, M. Bane, S.J. Davie and P.L.A. Popelier, J. Comput.Chem., 37, 2606-2616 (2016).
• 2016: “Proceedings of the EMerging Technology (EMiT) Conference 2016. Editors: B.D.Rogers, D.Topping, F.Mantovani, M.K.Bane. ISBN 978-0-9933426-3-9”
• 2016: "UManSysProp: An online facility for molecular property prediction and atmospheric aerosol calculations", D.O. Topping, M. Barley, M. Bane, N.J. Higham, B. Aumont, and G. McFiggans, Geosci. Model. Dev. 9, 899-914, 2016
• 2015: Proceedings of the EMerging Technology (EMiT) Conference 2015. ISBN 978-0-9933426-0-8
• 2013: Case Study: BBC - In the Mood for Music"a case study of HTC (high throughput) work I undertook for BBC R&D to reduce time to analyse 128,000 music files from estimated 1.5 years to just 6 hours
• 2008: "Development and illustrative outputs of the Community Integrated Assessment System (CIAS), a multi-institutional modular integrated assessment approach for modelling climate change", Environmental Modelling & Software, 23(5). (EMS "best paper" Award)
• 2006: R.W. Ford, G.D. Riley, M.K. Bane, C.W. Armstrong and T.L. Freeman (2006), "GCF: a General Coupling Framework", Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, (John Wiley & Sons), vol. 18, no. 2, pp163-181. doi:10.1002/cpe.910. (PDF may require registration)
• 2005: Elliot, M. J., Manning, A., Mayes, K., Bane, M. and Gurd,J., (2005) "SUDA: a program for identifying and grading special uniques". Proceedings of UNECE worksession of statistical Data Confidentiality, Geneva, November 2005.
• 2002: Michael K Bane and Graham D Riley, "Extended Overhead Analysis for OpenMP” in Euro-Par 2002 Parallel Processing, 8th International EuroPar Conference, Paderborn, Germany, Aug 2002.
• 2001: M.K. Bane, M.D. Mihajlovic (2001), “A Fast Parallel Solver for the Biharmonic Problem”, Proceedings of the Tenth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Portsmouth, Virginia USA, 2001
• 2000: M.K. Bane and G.R. Riley, “Automatic Overheads Profiler for OpenMP Codes” EWOMP2000 conference, 14-15 Sept. 2000, University of Edinburgh.
• 2000: M.K. Bane, R. Keller, M. Pettipher & I. Smith (2000) "A Comparison of MPI and OpenMP Implementations of a Finite Element Analysis Code" Cray User Group 22-26 May 2000, Noordwijk NL
• 1992: M.K. Bane and T.L. Freeman, (1992) “Asynchronous Algorithms for Calculating Polynomial Zeros” in “Parallel Computing: Problems, Methods and Applications”, ed. Messina, P. and Murli, A., Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 53-62.
• 1991: T.L. Freeman and M.K. Bane, “Asynchronous Polynomial Zero-Finding Algorithms”. Parallel Computing 17, pp. 673-681, 1991.
• 1991: M.K. Bane and T.L. Freeman, “Implementation of Parallel Asynchronous Iterative Methods in occam” in “Applications of Transputers III”, ed. Durrani, T.S., et al, I.O.S., Amsterdam, 1991.
• 1990: T.L. Freeman and M.K. Bane, “An occam Implementation of an Asynchronous Algorithm for Calculating Polynomial Zeros” in “Applications of Transputers II”, ed. Pritchard, D.J. and Scott, C.J., I.O.S., Amsterdam, pp. 533-540, 1990