Hear inspirational speakers, learn how fellow researchers use HPC to advance their research and share best practices.
The event is a also great opportunity for you to network and establish collaborations with other supercomputing users.
Agenda
9.30 Registration and refreshments in the foyer
10.00 Welcome and introduction
10.05 Official launch of the Nimbus cloud supercomputer,
Professor Ian White, Vice-Chancellor and President
10.15 Turbocharging research with cloud HPC + AI, Dr Stefano Angioni, Research Computing Manager (Acting)
10.30 Modelling clouds in the cloud. Keynote by Richard Lawrence, IT Fellow - Supercomputing, Met Office
11.15 Break and delegation photography
11.45 Contributed talks from the Bath's Research Computing Community
13.15 Lunch in the foyer
14.00 Poster session and short talks (3 minutes)
14.30 Contributed talks from Bath's Research Computing Community
15.45 Poster viewing and break
16.15 Future development of the Azure HPC platform, applications and intelligent services by Laura Parry, Senior HPC + AI Senior Specialist at Microsoft
16.45 Presentation of prizes
16.50 Close of symposium
17.00 Pizza reception in the foyer
Who should attend
- Current and prospective users of Bath's Research Computing environments
- Researchers and PhD students doing computationally and data intensive research
