Location: STFC Rutherford Appleton Labs (RAL)
Day 1 – Monday 4th March
12:00: Lunch
13:00: Welcome and Chair’s Business
- Code of conduct: We plan to introduce a code of conduct for the HPC-SIG. Further details to follow.
- Elections update
- Many thanks to committee members stepping down at the end of their terms: Andy (secretary) and Chris (communications).
- Welcome to Deepak (secretary)
- Open committee positions:
- Treasurer
- Someone to share the EDIA role
- Communications
- We are also interested in people who may like to help out in a less formal capacity, for example:
- Help with the website, social media etc.
- Community liaison or engagement
- Sponsorship of events:
- We outlined options for the HPC-SIG to sponsor other events. By a show of hands there was clear support for the HPC-SIG to sponsor RSECon24 with the Community package (£2.5k)
- Branding update – the new logos were shown and hexagonal stickers were made available
- Report on the CIUK sysadmin meetup (Simon Atack)
- Overview of future meetings
- See the calendar (https://hpc-sig.org.uk/index.php/calendar/). Attendees were encouraged to advertise events with us.
- We are meeting in June in Sheffield: https://hpc-sig.org.uk/index.php/event/hpc-sig-meeting-university-of-sheffield/
- We have scheduled a meeting at the University of East Anglia in October or November.
13:30 Talk: “HPC at RAL”, Jonathan Churchill, STFC
13:45 Talk: “Cyber Security and HPC”, Dr David Crooks, Scientific Computing Division, STFC
14:15 Refreshments
14:30 Talk: “Data Centre Cooling”, Joe Bishop, Cambridge and Richard Horler, NBI
15:00 Fishbowl panel
15:45 Facility tours
17:00 End
19:00 Dinner at a restaurant in Didcot
Day 2 – Tuesday 5th March
09:00 Refreshments
09:30 Welcome to day 2
09:45 Talk: “Federated access to Isambard-AI – Requirements for attribute release by IDPs”, Christopher J. Walker, Jisc and Dr Christopher Woods, University of Bristol
10:15 Technical lightning talks (5-7 minutes each):
- “A is for Access: Having fun with LD_PRELOAD” , Sam Gallop, NBI
- “Backstage at the Daemonic Symphony: The architecture of the HTCondor batch scheduler”, Matthew West, University of Exeter
- “Using hardware timestamping for more accurate network time”, Christopher J. Walker, Jisc
10.40 (option1) Technical Stream
Chaired by Simon Atack
Discussion on the lightning talk topics
10:40 (option 2) Management/Strategic Stream
Chaired by Polly Eccleston and Steven Chapman
- “EDIA in Research Computing Cyber-Infrastructure”, Matthew West, University of Exeter
- “EDIA and HPC-SIG plans overview”, Polly Eccleston, University of Bristol
Discussion
12:15 Close and notices
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Optional workshop on SONiC Network OS
15:30 Close
