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AMD MI300X in the Durham HPC Hardware Lab
The ExCALIBUR H&ES programme has supported the Durham HPC hardware lab which contains a range of latest generation compute architectures and is hosted by COSMA at Durham University. A new AMD MI300X GPU system has been made available for code port…
AMReX at Exascale meeting and workshop
On 24 – 25 June 2024, the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) hosted AMReX at Exascale, a workshop to explore the themes of open platform programming, with a particular interest in adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods, in preparation for exascale…
HPCRSE@RSECon24: 3rd annual meeting of the HPC RSE community
Having grown significantly since it first ran in 2016, RSECon is an annual gathering of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) to share what they are doing, the latest developments in research software engineering, and make new contacts. ExCALIBUR has been…
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Mar 2025
Blueprinting AI for Science for Exascale (BASE-II) Showcase
On behalf of STFC and the Blueprinting for AI for Science at Excascale (BASE-II) project team, we invite the community to attend the BASE-II wrap-up event where we will showcase the AI/ML benchmarks which have been developed as part of this EPSRC ExCAL…
Mar 2025
Mar 2025
HPC Ready – Developing RSE and HPC skills
UNIVERSE-HPC are organising a one-day workshop – “HPC Ready: Developing RSE and HPC skills” – on Thursday 27th March 2025 from 10:00 to 16:00 (GMT/UTC), which will take place in person at the University of Edinburgh Bayes Centre, and online. Register n…
May 2025
May 2025
Performance Analysis Methods
Systematic performance analysis is a key activity in modern HPC code development. It shifts us from trial-and-error approaches toward an engineering-like process for delivering fast code. Skills to conduct performance analysis are essential for every m…
Jun 2025
Jun 2025
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 betw…