Workshop on Schedulers 2016-09-14

A scheduling workshop was organised by Ash Vadgama on 14 September 2016.   The WORKSHOP GOAL was to provide a detailed overview of the current HPC Scheduling Marketplace, so as to understand current scheduler capabilities, current deficiencies, developing risks and new features – thereby providing HPC-SIG members with options for the future.   The THEME …

2017-09-13 Hull

The September 2017 HPC-SIG meeting was held at the University of Hull on Wednesday 13 September 2017, followed on Thursday 14 September by a one-day workshop based around the broad theme of how, or indeed if, cloud services, which may be on premises or public cloud, integrate into a central Research Computing service.   The …

HPC-SIG Meeting 2017-05-11

The May 2017 HPC-SIG meeting was held at the University of Sussex in Brighton on Thursday 11 May 2017.   It attracted 38 delegates from 26 Universities and other academic research centres.   The agenda was: 10.00: Coffee available 10.30: Introductions 10.35: Report from the Chair 11.00: Experiences with build systems. Brief presentations on EasyBuild …

2016-06-07 Strathclyde

The June 2016 meeting was held on 7th June 2016 at Strathclyde University.   The agenda for the meeting was: 10.00: Coffee available 10.30: Introductions 10.35: Report from the Chair 11.00: Archer Champions (Josephine Beech-Brandt, University of Edinburgh), followed by an open discussion on future initiatives between the HPC-SIG, the Archer Champions and the Research …