HPC-SIG Meeting – University of Sheffield

Calendar

When:

18/06/2024 all-day

2024-06-18T00:00:00+01:00

2024-06-19T00:00:00+01:00

Where:

University of Sheffield
38 Mappin Street
Sheffield

Tickets

Please book your tickets via this link: https://buytickets.at/hpcsig/1253736

Registration deadlines:

In-person attendance: June 11th, Tuesday
Online participation: June 17th, Monday

Agenda

10:00	Refreshments
10:30	Chairs business Exec committee and vacant roles EDIA update Finance Mentorship programme Overview of past and future meetings
11:00	Introduction to Research Computing at Sheffield Saul Cozens, University of Sheffield
11:30	Running LLMs with limited GPU resources Edwin Brown and Twin Karmakharm, University of Sheffield
12:00	HPC access models – What’s on offer? Fred Sonnenwald, University of Sheffield
12:15	Q&A and discussion
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Overview of RUGRIT Richard Christie, King’s College London and Chair of RUGRIT
13:45	Biomolecular Simulations at Exascale Sarah Harris – University of Sheffield
14:15	European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) Lara Peeters, Ghent University
14:45	Break
15:00	Parallel discussion sessions Technical 15:00-15:20 Global Research Network Capacity – 100Gb is becoming trivial! – Jonathan Churchill, RAL 15:20-15:30 FlowCron – Using Globus to enable Function-as-a-service on HPC – James Allsopp, University of Birmingham Q&A and Discussion Management 15:00 UKRI Digital Research Technical Professional Skills NetworkPlus: Lightning talks and panel from anyone submitting a bid and discussion (contact chair@hpc-sig.org.uk to volunteer to participate) Prof James Davenport representing a bid led by GW4/Supercomputing Wales/UCL Prof Michael Bearpark representing a bid led by Imperial College London Alan Real representing a bid led by N8CIR Q&A and Discussion
16:00	Notices
16:15	Close

Venue Information

HPC-SIG and RUGRIT meetings will both be at 38 Mappin St, Sheffield, S1 4DT.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23057349
interactive campus map: https://ssid.sheffield.ac.uk/campus-map/
info on getting from Sheffield train station to University of Sheffield (inc via tram): https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors/maps-travel/travel-times#station
taxis: https://citytaxis.com/
car parking: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/visitors/maps-travel/car

Hotels

Here are some local hotels:

Rutland Hotel: https://www.rutlandhotel-sheffield.com/
Ibis Budget Sheffield Centre: https://all.accor.com/hotel/b4d2/index.en.shtml
Premier Inn Sheffield City Centre (st mary’s gate): https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/south-yorkshire/sheffield/sheffield-city-centre-st-marys-gate.html
Leonardo Hotel Sheffield: https://www.leonardohotels.co.uk/hotels/sheffield
Novotel Sheffield Centre: https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/novotelsheffield.en-gb.html
Hampton by Hilton Sheffield: https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/dsashhx-hampton-sheffield/

RUGRIT

The day after the HPC-SIG meeting (19th June) there will be a colocated RUGRIT meeting (see separate communications from RUGRIT about this).