HPC Club in 2025
Let’s try and set a plan for HPC CLUB for the rest of 2025. Event dates, topics, speakers and of course merch!
Right, time to put the community into HPC CLUB! After raiding our piggy bank, upsetting my CFO and hunting for scraps down the back of the server I think we have enough budget to do another two HPC Club events this year.
Easy bit first, dates. I’m proposing sometime in June and October but am very open to alternatives. If there are other important dates in the HPC calendar in those months that I should avoid please do let me know. (Does anyone maintain an industry wide HPC calendar?)
Secondly, topic. Suggestions for a theme and/or a guest speaker, or better still volunteers. A panel discussion might be fun if we can get the right people to agree to it. I’m proposing discussing the future of HPC schedulers as the topic for the next event in June (as per my previous poll on LinkedIn). On that note, anyone at SchedMD or another scheduler vendor reading this? or know someone that fancies coming along? I’ll be pestering my contacts at IBM of course 😁
The merch at the last event was well received, along with requests to even buy the T shirts! I’m a little conflicted about selling merch (as opposed to giving it away). Perhaps selling at cost but strictly collection at an event to keep things simple could work? Dealing with shipping sounds like too much work. Feedback from the community on this would be appreciated!
Lastly, we have updated the HPC Club website, please take a look, what do you think?
Over to you. Thoughts, suggestions, feedback in the comments please!
