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 Software Engineers community – http://www.rse.ac.uk
  • 11.45: e2e networking in the HPC/NeI context (Tim Chown, JISC)
  • 12.15: Lunch
  • 13.15: Site Updates
  • 13.45: Experiences with Windows HPC and Ansys Remote Solve Manager (Ricky Martin, Strathclyde)
  • 14.15: SIG Business Matters, including future meeting dates and locations
  • 14.45: Tea
  • 15.00: Challenges in managing heterogeneous systems and services. Discussion led by Simon Burbidge, Imperial College London
  • 15.45: AOB
  • 16.00 Meeting close

As always, the meting was followed by refreshment and lively discussion in a local hostelry.