The September 2017 HPC-SIG meeting was held at the University of Hull on Wednesday 13 September 2017, followed on Thursday 14 September by a one-day workshop based around the broad theme of how, or indeed if, cloud services, which may be on premises or public cloud, integrate into a central Research Computing service.
The agenda for the meeting was:
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10.00: Coffee available
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10.30: Introductions
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10.35: Report from the Chair
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11.00: Using RIPE Atlas probes to help find the location of network problems. Chris Walker, QMUL. Chris described using a RIPE Altas probe to debug their network in Slough after relocating their HPC service to the JISC shared datacentre.
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11.45: Site Updates
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Hull. Graeme Murphy
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NBI (Norwich Bioscience Institutes). Chris Bridson, NBI
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12.15: Lunch
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13.15: ASSENT background and demonstration. David Salmon and Josh Howlett, JISC. Presentations: AAAI Pathfinder, Moonshot and Assent Update
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14.15: SIG Business Matters, including future meeting dates and location.
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14.45: Tea
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15.00: Update on the National e-Infrastructure Survey. Jacky Pallas, Kings and Jeremy Yates, UCL
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15.45: AOB
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16.00: Meeting close
As always, the meeting was followed by refreshment and lively discussion in a local hostelry to which all were welcome.