The High Performance Computing Special Interest Group for UK Academia
Location: 38 Mappin St, S1 4DT, University of Sheffield 10:00: Refreshments 10:30: Welcome and Chair’s Business Exec committee and vacant roles EDIA update Finance Mentorship program update CIUK Day-Zero Event received positive feedback. Terms of Reference (ToR) Updates: Reduction in number of nominators for Chair and other roles. All roles (except Chair) must be held …
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 …
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/