Location: 38 Mappin St, S1 4DT, University of Sheffield
10:00: Refreshments
10:30: Welcome and Chair’s Business
- Exec committee and vacant roles
- EDIA update
- Finance
- Mentorship program update
- CIUK Day-Zero Event received positive feedback.
- Terms of Reference (ToR) Updates:
- Reduction in number of nominators for Chair and other roles.
- All roles (except Chair) must be held by paid employees from a paid-up member group.
- Motion approved.
11:00: Introduction to Research Computing at Sheffield, Saul Cozens, University of Sheffield
- Covered: service areas, strategic developments, HPC resources, key challenges, sustainability, talent development
11:30: Running LLMs with limited GPU resources, Edwin Brown & Twin Karmakharm, University of Sheffield
12:00: HPC access models – What’s on offer? Fred Sonnenwald, University of Sheffield
12:30: Lunch
13:30: Overview of RUGRIT, Richard Christie, King’s College London and Chair of RUGRIT
13:45: Biomolecular Simulations at Exascale, Sarah Harris – University of Sheffield
14:15: European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI), Lara Peeters, Ghent University
14:30: Refreshments
15:00 Parallel discussion sessions
Technical:
- 15:00-15:20 Global Research Network Capacity – 100Gb is becoming trivial! – Jonathan Churchill, RAL15:20-15:30 FlowCron – Using Globus to enable Function-as-a-service on HPC – James Allsopp, University of Birmingham
- Q&A and Discussion
Management:
- 15:00 UKRI Digital Research Technical Professional Skills NetworkPlus: Lightning talks and panel from anyone submitting a bid and discussion
- Prof James Davenport representing a bid led by GW4/Supercomputing Wales/UCL
- Prof Michael Bearpark representing a bid led by Imperial College London
- Alan Real representing a bid led by N8CIR
- Q&A and Discussion
16:00: Notices & Close