Duhram HPC / AI Days

6 May 2024, 09:00 → 10 May 2024, 17:00 UTC

More info: https://scicomp.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/code_performance_series/durham-hpc-days-2024/

Following a successful 2023 event, we once again plan to host HPC Days in Durham in the week before ISC 2024 with friends and colleagues from all over the UK and from abroad. Registration is open and free of charge for all researchers. While we will stream the talks, the core event will run face-to-face in Durham. Our overarching themes this year are

Challenges for the compute centre of the future: Finding talent, compute in green, serve both communities

 

Compute centres and HPC research groups in academia face multifaceted challenges. Some key challenges today are the permanent lack of talent, the fact that many codes suffer from a lack of scalability and efficiency – notably the fact that supercomputers consume a lot of energy becomes increasingly challenging for many institution, i.e. there is a strong push towards green or even Net-Zero computing – and the permanent tension between the ML/AI community and the traditional simulation “customers”. The talks at the HPC Days will look at these challenges from different angles, share experience, and discuss potential approaches and solutions.