HPC technology, training and community at RSECon23
18 December 2023
This year's RSECon, the annual conference for research software engineering, included a session for engineers working in high performance computing.
After the success of the HPC and RSE workshop “Excalibur RSEs meet HPC Champions”, which ran as a satellite event after RSECon22 in Newcastle, the organisers decided to run a similar event this year.
The high performance computing (HPC) session at RSECon focused on three topics: technology, training and community. Run as a hybrid event with joined talks, and in-person as well as online discussion groups, it was attended by about 60 people in the room and ten online. Discussions ranged across emerging HPC technologies, industry access to supercomputers, bit-reproducibility, the role of the HPC community in training, and more.
Further information
EPCC's Andy Turner has co-written a post about the event with Marion Weinzierl (Cambridge) and Ed Hone (Exeter). Read more about the topics discussed and how the UK RSE HPC community might organise itself in the future:
https://society-rse.whitefuse.net/articles/hpc-birds-of-a-feather-at-rsecon23
"Excalibur RSEs meet HPC Champions" workshop:
https://excalibur.ac.uk/hpc-and-rse-workshop/
Clair Barrass' review of attending RSECon23 as part of the EPCC delegation: https://www.archer2.ac.uk/news/2023/09/12/rsecon23.html
