The High Performance Computing Special Interest Group for UK Academia
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 …
Eurolab4HPC supporting HPC innovation. Expert view: Martin Schulz Power bound computing – use more nodes, etc. and find best configuration (makes more sense with the slides) Network contention: harder to predict execution times but cheaper in terms of hardware. Manage complex workflows Monitor the application and hardware stack at all points. [Seems more comprehensive than …
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Visualisation of results, not during. Spatial and temporal discretisation of complex equations -> errors Chemistry of dust: hard to do (q.v. Sheffield) 300,000 Blue Waters (NCSA) Not all simulations scale (gravity) Simulations on different scales. Simulations of binary stars and their ultimate end. Nebula formation. Takes a long time (6 months wall clock) due to …
I will post more details, and this is a placeholder for that, but BIOS IT has a product which allows two useful things: Access from a container or VM to a hosted GPGPU. This would allow, for example, a workload using Robot Operation System (ROS) which is easiest to install on Ubuntu to be run …
Super Computing is getting close. For information on social media links see https://hpc-sig.org.uk/index.php/event/roving-reporter-at-super-computing-2019/
The HPC Special Interest Group aims to promote the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in academia and industry, by members working together and promoting best practice in HPC provision, management and support. The group organises a range of meetings, events and workshops that are relevant to all current or potential providers of University HPC …