HPC-SIG Meeting 2019-07-01

This was held at Queen’s University, Belfast, with an attendance of just under 25. Agenda The original agenda was: Time Activity 10:00-10:30 Arrival, Registration and Coffee 10:30-10:45 Chair’s update 10:45 – 11:30 Carpentry Connect (Martian Callahagn) 11:30 – 12:00 Belfast City Deal,  Project Goals and timescales (Dr.  Seamus Doyle) 12:00-12:30 Network with colleagues from the Republic …

HPC-SIG Meeting 2019-02-13

This was held at Queen Mary, London Agenda The Agenda for this meeting was: 10:00 Arrivals welcomed 10:00-10:30 Coffee & Refreshments 10:30-11:00 Career pathways and roles (Christine Kitchen/Jacky Pallas) 11:00-11:30 HPC Certification 11:30-12:00 Professional Learning Programmes and Masters Apprenticeships (Martin Callahagn) 12:00-12:30 Thoughts on the HPC-SIG Website (Graeme Murphy) 12:30-13:30 LUNCH 13:30-13:45 Internships at the …

HPC-SIG Meeting 2018-09-24

Agenda The Agenda for this meeting was: 10:00 – 10:30 Arrival & Refreshments 10:30 – 10:35 Welcome from Chair 10:35 – 10:55 Leeds’ HPC for Secure Data (Martin Callaghan) 10:55 – 11:15 Managing Secure Data at Swansea  (Simon Thompson) 11:15 – 11:35 Panel Discussion 11:35 – 12:30 Breakout Sessions on the challenges of managing secure data with HPCs 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 – …

EasyBuild

Overview This section of best practice is based on the wisdom distilled from the EasyBuild Workshop at the University of Birmingham, 22nd October 2018, hosted by Andrew Edmondson, Research Software Group Leader, Advanced Research Computing, with Kenneth Hoste, lead EasyBuild developer at the University of Ghent. 22 people from the UK academic HPC community attended …

HPC-SIG Meeting 2016-09-13

The September 2016 meeting was held at the University of Warwick on 13 September 2016.   The agenda was: 10.00: Coffee available 10.30: Introductions 10.35: Report from the Chair 11.00: Determining Return on Investment of an HPC system: Background and Loughborough experiences. Aaron Turner, Loughborough University 12.15: Lunch 13.15: Site Updates Warwick Nottingham Hull 13.45: …

HPC-SIG Meeting 2018-05-23

University of Birmingham Conference Park, Edgbaston Room, Lucas House https://conferences.bham.ac.uk The workshop was preceded on 22 May by a Remote Visualisation workshop. The agenda was: 10.00: Arrivals and Coffee 10.30: Welcome and Introductions – Committee Introduction 10.45: Datacentre Experiences – Local, Remote or in a container? Simon Burbidge (Bristol) – Experiences of using a remote facility – …

HPC-SIG Meeting 2018-02-13

The February 2018 meeting was held on 13 February 2018 at the University of Bristol in the Clifton Hall House Conference Centre     The agenda was: 10.00: Coffee available 10.30: Introductions 10.35: Report from the Chair 11.00: Committee elections The results of the election for the new HPC-SIG Executive at the Bristol meeting on 13 …

HPC-SIG Meeting 2017-02-09

The February 2017 HPC-SIG meeting was held at the University of Leeds on Thursday 9 February 2017, attracting 55 delegates from 36 Universities and affiliated sites.  It was followed by the Archers Champions workshop on Friday 10 February 2017.   The agenda for the SIG meeting was: 10.00: Coffee available 10.30: Introductions 10.35:  Report from …