Durham HPC Days 2025
2nd - 7th June 2025
Durham University, Department of Computer Science, Durham, UK
Consult the HPC Days 2025 landing page for related information on the registration, the submission of presentations, sponsors, and further travel advice.
Programme
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| 9:00 |
Tutorial: Lustre User Group (MCS0001)
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Tutorial: AMD GPUs (RH007)
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Workshop: Computational Biosciences (MCS 3052)
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Keynote: Finding the Fulcrum: Rethinking Supercomputing at Scale (Cristin Merritt, MCS0001) | Keynote: Molecular Simulation in Process Engineering: Impressions from the Era of Exascale Computing and Data Science (Philipp Neumann, MCS0001) | Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities in HPC for Numerical Relativity (Katy Clough, MCS0001) | Join us for our Saturday Social! | |
| 9:45 |
Workshop: Women in HPC (WHPC) Panel (MCS0001)
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Submitted Talks (MCS2068)
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Workshop: eCSE Session (MCS2068)
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Workshop: High-Energy Particle Physics (MCS0001)
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Workshop: Numerical Relativity (MCS0001)
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Workshop: Benchmarking Symposium (MCS2068)
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| 10:30 | Coffee | |||||
| 11:00 | Tutorial: FTorch (MCS0001) |
Tutorial: Lustre User Group (MCS0001)
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Tutorial: AMD GPUs (RH007)
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Workshop: Computational Biosciences (MCS 3052)
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Meeting: UK CoE for the Characterisation and Co-Design of SHES (internal) (MCS 3052)
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Workshop: HPC in Weather & Climate Research (MCS2068)
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Submitted Talks (MCS0001)
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Workshop: eCSE Session (MCS2068)
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UKRI DRI (MCS0001)
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Workshop: Numerical Relativity (MCS0001)
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Workshop: Women in HPC (WHPC) (MCS2068)
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EPSRC: Meet the funder (please arrange 1:1s beforehand) (MCS 3052)
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| 12:30 | Lunch (optional data centre tours Tues-Thurs) | |||||
| 13:30 | Tutorial: HPE: SmartSim (MCS0001) |
Tutorial: Codeplay: SYCL (RH007)
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Workshop: DiRAC RSEs (MCS2068)
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Submitted Talks (MCS0001)
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Workshop: High-Energy Particle Physics (MCS2068)
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N8 CIR Steering Group (by invitation only, MCS2050)
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Welcome note: Matthew Johnson (Head of Computer Science)
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Keynote: Digital Research Infrastructure (Afia Masood, MCS0001) and
UKRI DRI (MCS0001)
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Workshop: CoSeC (MCS0001)
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Workshop: Particle physics (MCS2068) |
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| 15:00 | Coffee | |||||
| 15:30 | Tutorial: HPE: SmartSim (MCS0001) |
Official Opening Ceremony: Colin Bain (PVC-Research Durham University, MCS0001) and
Keynote: The changing shape of science funding in the U.S. (Rich Knepper, MCS0001)
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Symposium: UK CoE for the Characterisation and Co-Design of SHES (MCS 3052)
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Workshop: HPC in Weather & Climate Research (MCS2068)
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N8 CIR Steering Group (by invitation only, MCS2050)
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Keynote: Unleash the control freak in yourself for fun and profit - and for science! (Thomas Gruber, MCS0001) | Panel: Creating a cohesive distributed Digital Research Infrastructure (MCS0001) | |
| 16:30 |
Tutorial: Codeplay: SYCL (RH007)
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Workshop: DiRAC RSEs (internal, MCS2068)
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Submitted Talks (MCS0001) |
Showcasing our Sponsors:Lightning Talks and Panel (MCS0001) |
Workshop: Benchmarking Symposium (MCS0001)
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HPC RSE SIG meetup (MCS2068)
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| 18:00 | Social | |||||
| 18:30 | Light dinner and refreshments | Food van and refreshments |
Industry Scavenger Hunt
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Food van and refreshments
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EPSRC Early Career Research: Meet and greet with the funder (MCS2050)
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HPC RSE SIG meetup (Continued, MCS2068) and
Food van and refreshments
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Online participation and AV
Most of our events will be streamed live, and the registration for the individual session is open now. Can we please advise that all speakers register for their respective session as well, so we can simply start individual presentations via screen share.
Sponsors and Supporters
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If you would like to sponsor the event, please contact us!
