Peter Heywood

School of Computer Science

Research Software Engineer

Member of the Visual Computing research group

Member of Research Software Engineering

p.heywood@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1800

Regent Court (DCS)

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Peter Heywood
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP

Research interests

Publications

Kabiri Chimeh M, Heywood P, Pennisi M, Pappalardo F & Richmond P (2019) Parallelisation strategies for agent based simulation of immune systems. BMC Bioinformatics, 20.
Heywood P, Maddock S, Bradley R, Swain D, Wright I, Mawson M, Fletcher G, Guichard R, Himlin R & Richmond P (2019) A data-parallel many-source shortest-path algorithm to accelerate macroscopic transport network assignment. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 104, 332-347.
Richmond P, Chisholm R, Heywood P, Chimeh MK & Leach M () FLAME GPU 2: a framework for flexible and performant agent based simulation on GPUs. Software: Practice and Experience.
Heywood P, Maddock SC, Casas J, Garcia D, Brackstone M & Richmond P () Data-parallel agent-based microscopic road network simulation using graphics processing units. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory.

Smilovitskiy M, Olmez S, Richmond P, Chisholm R, Heywood P, Cabrejas A, van den Berghe S & Kobayashi S (2025) Overcoming Computational Complexity: A Scalable Agent-Based Model of Traffic Activity Using FLAME-GPU (pp 240-251)
Richmond P, Leach M, Heywood P, Pappalardo F, Russo G & Pennisi M (2022) UISS-GPU: Accelerated In-Silico Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials Using FLAME GPU. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 6 December 2022 - 8 December 2022.
Chimeh MK, Heywood P, Pennisi M, Pappalardo F & Richmond P (2019) Parallel pair-wise interaction for multi-agent immune systems modelling. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 1367-1373). Madrid, Spain, 3 December 2018 - 3 December 2018.
Shui W, Maddock SC, Heywood P, Craig-Atkins E, Crangle J, Hadley D & Scott R (2016) Using Semi-automatic 3D Scene Reconstruction to Create a Digital Medieval Charnel Chapel. Proceedings of EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics. Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
McIlveen J, Maddock S, Heywood P & Richmond P (2016) PED: Pedestrian Environment Designer. Proceedings of EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 1 August 2016 - 1 August 2016.
Heywood P, Richmond P & Maddock S (2015) Road Network Simulation Using FLAME GPU. Euro-Par 2015: Parallel Processing Workshops, Vol. 9523 (pp 430-441). Vienna, Austria, 24 August 2015 - 24 August 2015.

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