Events

Events

Upcoming

4th Annual Meeting of the HPC RSE Community, In-person meeting at RSECon in Coventry, 11:00 - 15:00 BST, Thu 11 September 2025

This in-person meeting is organised as a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session in RSECon 2025. It will have short presentations on topics of interest within the HPC RSE space and panel discussions with questions from the audience.

Rough Agenda:

  • 11:00 Welcome from the HPC RSE SIG
  • 11:15 2 short presentations (10 min + 5 min questions) setting the scene for technical discussion
  • 11:45 Technical/exascale panel
  • 12:15 UK HPC Service panel
  • 12:30 Lunch break
  • 13:30 2 short presentations (10 min + 5 min questions) setting the scene for community/training discussion
  • 14:00 Community/training panel
  • 14:30 Interactive survey to steer activities of the SIG
  • 14:45 Wrap-up

Past

HPC RSE SIG Online Meetup: 1100-1300 BST, Mon 19 May 2025

This online meeting had short presentations on topics of interest within the HPC RSE space and time for discussion and questions for the community and the committee of the new HPC RSE SIG.

Rough agenda:

  • 11:00 Welcome from the HPC RSE SIG Committee
  • 11:10 Scaling the Stars: Optimizing MPI communication on GPUs in the PROMPI stellar dynamics code; Miren Radia, Research Computing Services, University of Cambridge
  • 11:25 Custom Acceleration Frameworks: the good, the bad, and the ugly; Ilektra Chritidi, Mashy Green, UCL
  • 11:40 FRIDGE: A shared responsibility model for deploying Trusted Research Environments on High Performance Compute systems; Martin O’Reilly, The Alan Turing Institute
  • 11:55 Connecting the DRI community through CAKE; Nick Brown, EPCC, University of Edinburgh
  • 12:10 Group discussion: How can the HPC RSE SIG be of most use to the community? Additional topics chosen by attendees.

Links to talks to be added

HPC RSE SIG In-person Meetup at Durham HPC Days: 1630-1800 BST, Thu, 5 June 2025

The Durham HPC Days took place June 2-7 in Durham, UK.

There was an in-person meet-up of the HPC Research Software Engineers Special Interest Group (HPC RSE SIG), with discussion groups around training and careers, technology and software, and community.