HPC-SIG Meeting – University of East Anglia

Day 1: Wednesday 6 November 2024

12 noon

Arrival, lunch and coffee

Welcome to UEA

Ian Callaghan

1.05pm

Welcome and Chair’s Business

Andrew (Ed) Edmondson, Chair, HPC-SIG

1.30pm

Host presentation

Jimmy Cross, University of East Anglia

2pm

Break

2.15pm

“A first look at JADE 2.5”, Tina Friedrich, University of Oxford

2.45pm

“SSH certificate-based access on Isambard-AI and Isambard 3”, Matt Williams, University of Bristol

3.15pm

Coffee break

3.30pm

“Condenser @ UCL – Building a new hyperconverged environment for research and teaching”, Brian Maher, UCL – ARC

4pm

“CASIS: Carbon aware software installation System; a CI/CD approach to build environment modules”, Amjad Sayed, University of East Anglia

4.30pm

Facility tours:

1. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/
2. 1960s Data Centre

5.30pm

Notices and close

7pm

Optional city-centre dinner

Day 2: Thursday 7 November 2024

9am

Arrive and coffee

9.30am

Welcome to day 2, Ed

9.35am

Fishbowl panel, Ed

10.45am

Coffee break

11am

Technical stream

Lightning talks interspersed by discussion

1. “TMPVOL (local scratch on the HPC)”, Sam Gallop, Norwich Bioscience Institute

2. “Migrating from Slurm v17.11 to v23.02”, Sam Gallop, Norwich Bioscience Institute

3. “All Package Index”, Carl Kennedy, The University of Sheffield

4. “perfSONAR measurements of network performance between UK Universities”, Christopher J. Walker, Jisc

Management/strategic stream

Discussions:

1. Building new data centres and the politics and design decisions
2. Current and recent RTP funding calls from UKRI
3. Cost recovery of HPC (following the Sheffield presentation in June)

12 noon

Notices

12.05pm

Lunch

1pm

Close