Past Durham HPC Days
Explore previous editions of Durham HPC Days, including highlights, photos,and links to full programmes and documentation.
🖥️ Durham HPC Days 2025
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The 2025 edition focused on advanced GPU programming, large-scale parallel optimisation, hands-on profiling, and modern HPC workflows. Researchers, RSEs, and developers from multiple scientific fields participated in sessions, tutorials, and collaborative discussions.
🖥️ Durham HPC Days 2024
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The 2024 event focused on the evolving demands faced by compute centres and research computing groups. Core topics included: talent scarcity, scalability and performance limitations,energy consumption and Net-Zero computing and traditional simulation communities and ML/AI workflows
🖥️ Durham HPC Days 2023
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The 2023 event focused on exploring the community’s transition from homogeneous to increasingly heterogeneous supercomputing architectures, focusing on how to adapt algorithms, workflows and quantities of interest to new hardware; the role of performance portability; lessons learned from prototype and experimental systems within ExCALIBUR and the integration of core computer science and applied mathematics with domain sciences.
📈 Looking Forward
Durham HPC Days continues to grow each year, expanding into new areas such as sustainable HPC, AI-accelerated workflows, and advanced research software engineering.
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