Durham HPC Days

Following successful events in 2023 and 2024, we are happy to announce the 2025 Durham HPC Days in the week predating the ISC Conference in Hamburg. Our 2025 theme focuses on the fact that there is, despite people claiming different things, no gap between HPC and AI: HPC underpins progress in both simulations – high-performance and high throughput – and AI. We are all in the same boat. However, different communities have different needs how the HPC infrastructure is used and provided, and they also affect each other. Following this “difference but common interests”, we will attempt to bring disciplines to Durham which had been underrepresented in previous years.

The program is being assembled here with more details about registration, travel and hotels here.

Call for presentations

Theme: AI and simulations – We all need HPC

Submission deadline: 1st of April, AoE

Notification: 10th April

As we continue to progress further into the exascale era it is becoming clearer that, despite people’s claims, there is really no gap between HPC and AI. Both these areas require high-performance, rely on the same hardware technologies and often require staff with similar skillsets. Consequently, HPC can be thought of as underpinning both simulation of scientific computing workloads and AI, and we are all in the same boat. However, different communities have different needs around how the HPC infrastructure is used and provided, which then also affect each other. Following this “difference but common interests” theme, we aim to bring disciplines to Durham which have typically been underrepresented in previous years. There are many challenging issues shared between communities but are potentially solved in different ways, and hence we aim for HPC Days 2025 to explore these, identify synergies and shared solutions.

We invite proposals for talks, typically 15-25 minutes long, which will be embedded into a wider programme hosting invited speakers and vendor presentations.

Full details and submission link is here