HPC Club: Bristol Edition
Time for a little experiment. HPC Club outside of London.
Surprise! We’re adding an extra full fat HPC Club event into the calendar for this year. And it’s not even going to be in London. Though still in the UK. Bristol more precisely.
We had a few requests from people who would have liked to attend but getting into London is not only expensive but quite far for some. Given the UK’s fastest supercomputer is now in Bristol and it was also fairly central to a few of the requests for an alternate UK location we figured we’d give this a go.
If we manage to pull this off, I guess the next logical step will have to be a non UK location, maybe New York?
We don’t have all the details locked down yet but it will be during the week of 22nd September (just waiting to confirm some details with the venue).
I’m a little conflicted on the topic. I’m thinking either converged HPC, i.e. the whole idea of using cloud technology such as Kubernetes and serverless to run HPC and more specifically is HPC trying to bend that to its will or genuinely making changes and adopting and growing in that direction.
The other possible option I’m kind of keen on is the whole idea of AI optimised HPC platforms and what it would take to get us there. We see a lot of talk of using AI to replace HPC (i.e. replace expensive compute with generative AI) but far less about using machine learning to optimise the expensive compute.
Got a preference? Let me know. Or maybe suggest something completely different?
