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HPC-SIG Leeds Meeting @ University of Leeds

Tickets

Feb 23 @ 12:00 PM – Feb 24 @ 1:30 PM

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

February – October 2026

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) Improving the Discoverability of UK HPC User Documentation for New Users (Online) Eamonn Bell, Durham University / CCP-AHC AI enabled HPC service management Eduardo Veiga, University of Cambridge 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 The Victoria & Commercial pub for dinner at 19.30. We will need to coordinate a pre-order of your food, and will be in touch with all in-person ticket holders in due course.

Address: The Victoria & Commercial, 28 Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3DL

Website: https://thevictorialeeds.co.uk/

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