The High Performance Computing Special Interest Group for UK Academia
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 …
Location: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY / PRIFYSGOL CAERDYDD 10:30 Welcome and Chair’s Business Andrew (Ed) Edmondson and Steven Chapman 10:45 Supercomputing Wales Prof Martyn Guest 11:00 Break 11:15 Introduction to Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) Dr Duncan MacLeod (School of Physics and Astronomy) 11:30 HPC Supporting LIGO David Simpson (ARCCA) 11:45 Fishbowl Panel Facilitator: Ed Initial …
Location: University of Bath Welcome and Chair’s Business The Bath team welcomed us all and set out the practicalities for the day Ed gave a brief overview of recent and future meetings up to the middle of 2024 Steven gave an update on the new EDIA role in the exec and the election to it. …
Location: University of Southampton Welcome and Chair’s Business Ed briefly reviewed the recent SIG meetings (Birmingham and online Q&A). June 2022 Birmingham meeting, Nov 2022 online QA, CIUK sysadmin/infrastructure engineer session, March 2023 HPC-SIG coordinated online HPC/DRI meeting Ricky gave a financial update: Subscription fees to remain at £150 Agreed to waive fees for the …
Location: University of Birmingham AM Group Discussion First session was a chance for the community to reconnect and to discuss the challenges that they are facing at the moment. Challenges that were particularly identified and referenced: Challenges – risk of silos developing with teams dedicated to RSE, Sysadmin, Infrastructure Challenges – scalability and complexity in …
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Introduction This seminar was on the graphical tool for use of HPC systems, HPC OnDemand. Slides See the following link. Recorded Presentation Follow this link. Questions and Answers To added.
Agenda Time Title Presenter 10:00 Arrivals and coffee 10:30 Welcome (CK) 10:32 Welcome to Bath (Steve Chapman) 10:40 Cloud Bursting in Liverpool (Cliff Addison) 11:20 HPC Champions Update (James Grant) 11:35 Archer, Excalibur Call (Richard Gunn) 12:00 SIG Business Finances R. Martin Website M. Callaghan SIG Elections G. Murphy …
Agenda Time Title Presenter 13:00 – 13:10 Welcome. Meeting Format & Etiquette C. Kitchen 13:10 – 13:30 SIG Election Process Proposal C. Kitchen 13:30 – 13:40 Finance Update R. Martin 13:40 – 14:10 EPSRC, Archer-2 and Campus Champions Update A. Turner, EPCC 14:10 – 15:00 Open discussion on HPC Security 15:00 – 15:30 Sustainability …
Location University of Manchester Admin Attendance: See ti. to and head count. Welcome Graeme Murphy welcomed everyone. Welcome to Manchester Pen Richardson provided an overview of ITS team at Manchester touching on the research computing core services(research virtual machines, research software engineers, business analysts, applications support). She noted that the funding is mixed and this …