HPC-SIG Meeting, 2024-03-04/05, RAL

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 …

HPC-SIG Meeting, 2023-09-20, Cardiff

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 …

HPC-SIG Meeting, 2023-03-07, Southampton

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 …

HPC-SIG Meeting, 2022-06-28, Birmingham

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 …

Challenges and Opportunities in Academic HPC Systems Research in 2030

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 …

Solar Collisons at the limit of HPC

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 …

Welcome to the HPC Special Interest Group

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 …