HPC-SIG Leeds Meeting

Calendar
When:
23/02/2026 @ 12:00 PM – 24/02/2026 @ 1:30 PM
2026-02-23T12:00:00+00:00
2026-02-24T13:30:00+00:00
Where:
University of Leeds
Nexus
Discovery Way, Leeds
LS2 3AA

Call for Contributions

Please submit your responses by 30 January 2026: https://forms.office.com/e/eYpEZAk6nH

Registration

Registration will be via TicketTailor: https://buytickets.at/hpcsig/2006632

Please note, that we cannot guarantee entry to this event if you have not pre-registered.

Key deadlines

  • Call for contributions: Friday 30 January 2026
  • Registration for in-person attendance: Friday 13 February
  • Registration for online participation: Friday 20 February

Venue Information and Accessibility

Address: Nexus, Discovery Way, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 3AA

Campus map (with Nexus marked): http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap?location=17519

Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/university-of-leeds/access-guides/nexus

Programme

Day 1: Monday 23rd February Afternoon

12:00 Day 1 Start: Arrive, Network, Lunch
13:00 Welcome and Chair’s Business
13:10 Welcome from Leeds
David Baldwin, Director of Digital Research
13:20 A new era for HPC at Leeds
Patricia Ternes & Jon Whitwell, University of Leeds
13:30 Adventures with OpenStack
Alastair Basden, DiRAC / Durham University
14:00 Automating GPU capability of Met Office UM. (NG-ARCH project)
Mark Richardson, University of Leeds
14:30 Coffee Break
15:00 Lightning talks (5 minutes each)

  1. Improving the Discoverability of UK HPC User Documentation for New Users (Online)
    Eamonn Bell, Durham University / CCP-AHC
  2. AI enabled HPC service management
    Eduardo Veiga, University of Cambridge
  3. Interactive Debugging on Slurm Clusters Using VS Code
    Xan Morice-Atkinson, University of Portsmouth
15:30 Research computing engagement: a skill for many a job for few
Emily Lumley, Imperial College London
16:00 Flexible Resource Allocation: Moving Beyond “Private Node” Models in HPC with Slurm
Maeve Murphy Quinlan, University of Leeds
16:30 TBC
17:00 Day 1 Close: Notices, Network, Socialise

Optional social evening

On 23 February there is a option for meeting at TBC

Address: TBC

Website: TBC

Day 2: Tuesday 24th February Morning

09:00 Day 2 Start: Arrive, Network, Coffee
09:15 The Brotherton Library Visit
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/locations
10:15 Re-Sourcing? Improved outcomes in academia via shared computational resources

Siiri Ruuhela, Frontier Technologies Laboratory, University of Cambridge
10:45 Fishbowl Panel: Forming digital trust in the era of networks and sovereign AI
Siiri Ruuhela, Frontier Technologies Laboratory, University of Cambridge
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 TBC
12:30 Close and lunch
13:30 End

 

Hotels

https://accommodation.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/43/hotels_list_2223

Parking

https://estates.leeds.ac.uk/our-services/car-parking/visitor-parking/

Transport

https://sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/get-involved/reduce-your-environmental-impact/sustainable-travel/