Durham HPC Days 2026

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Keynotes
Workshops
Talks
Tutorials
Posters
Meetings
Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
09:00

Node-level performance optimisation

Instructors: Georg Hager, Thomas Gruber

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Pocket-Sized Kubernetes: Building and Deployment with Raspberry Pi Clusters

Instructors: Lewis Sampson, Piper Fowler-Wright

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Science & AI

Leads: Fawada Qaiser, Jeyan Thiyagalingam

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Quantum HPC

Facilitators: Omer Rathore, James Richings

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Knowledge Exchange in the DRI Community

Facilitator: Marion Weinzierl

Room: Mountjoy Centre

User-driven large-scale federated data movement

Facilitator: Alastair Basden

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Computational Engineering

Facilitator: Gokberk Kabacaoglu

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Green HPC

Instructor: Andy Turner

Room: Mountjoy Centre

HPC Code development

Facilitator: TBD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Building Community

Facilitator: Simon Hands (Community Development Director DiRAC)

Room: Mountjoy Centre

What's inside the black box? Compiler developments for HPC

Lead: Pawel Radtke

Room: Mountjoy Centre

AMD/OpenMP

Facilitator: AMD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Research Facilitation for DRI communities

Lead: Weronika Filinger

Room: Mountjoy Centre

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

RSE Leaders & Aspiring Leaders Meeting: Policy & Funding

Leads: Samantha Finnigan, Marion Weinzierl, Elena Breitmoser, Michael Donnay, Twin Karmakharm

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Keynote

Lead: Alice-Agnes Gabriel

Room: Mountjoy Centre

TBD

Lead: TBD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

TBD

Lead: TBD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Model Parallelism: Building and Deploying Large Neural Networks

Instructors: Karin Sevegnani, Paul Graham

Room: Mountjoy Centre

RSE Leaders & Aspiring Leaders Meeting: Policy & Funding

Leads: Samantha Finnigan, Marion Weinzierl, Elena Breitmoser, Michael Donnay, Twin Karmakharm

Room: Mountjoy Centre

HPC in Astrophysics and Astronomy

Facilitator: Mladen Ivkovic

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Lustre User Group UK Summer Meeting

Lead: Robert Esnouf

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Node-level performance optimisation

Instructors: Georg Hager, Thomas Gruber

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Pocket-Sized Kubernetes: Building and Deployment with Raspberry Pi Clusters

Instructors: Lewis Sampson, Piper Fowler-Wright

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Science & AI

Leads: Fawada Qaiser, Jeyan Thiyagalingam

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Quantum HPC

Facilitators: Omer Rathore, James Richings

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Research software development funding calls

Facilitator: Chris Johnson

Room: Mountjoy Centre

CoSeC

Facilitator: Damian Jones

Room: Mountjoy Centre

We know what to do, so why aren’t we doing it? Closing the EDI Implementation Gap with lessons from EuroHPC, UKRI and Beyond

Leads: Eleanor Broadway, Marion Weinzierl, Tom Meltzer, Jack Franklin

Room: Mountjoy Centre

What's inside the black box? Compiler developments for HPC

Lead: Pawel Radtke

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Building Community

Facilitator: Simon Hands (Community Development Director DiRAC)

Room: Mountjoy Centre

AMD/OpenMP

Facilitator: AMD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Summer School Poster Session

Room: Mountjoy Centre

14:30

Break

15:00

TBD

Lead: TBD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

TBD

Lead: TBD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Model Parallelism: Building and Deploying Large Neural Networks

Instructors: Karin Sevegnani, Paul Graham

Room: Mountjoy Centre

RSE Leaders & Aspiring Leaders Meeting: Policy & Funding

Leads: Samantha Finnigan, Marion Weinzierl, Elena Breitmoser, Michael Donnay, Twin Karmakharm

Room: Mountjoy Centre

HPC in Astrophysics and Astronomy

Facilitator: Mladen Ivkovic

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Lustre User Group UK Summer Meeting

Lead: Robert Esnouf

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Node-level performance optimisation

Instructors: Georg Hager, Thomas Gruber

Room: Mountjoy Centre

HPC Centres

Facilitator: TBD

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Build your own HPC - hands-on session with Raspberry Pis

Lead: Jannetta Steyn

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Fortran Community Meetup

Lead: Liam Pattinson

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Poster Session

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Vendor session

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Scavanger hunt

Room: Mountjoy Centre

Past, present and future of HPC Services in the UK, and the people who make it work

Facilitators: Deepak Aggarwal, Simon Burbidge, Simon Clifford, Marion Weinzierl

Room: Mountjoy Centre