Photo says "Durham HPC Days 2026" in the centre, over the top of a cartoon-style drawing of Durham city centre.
Registration for the Durham HPC Days 2026 CLOSES TODAY! ⏳
Don’t miss out on this key UK event, where the community gathers to network, share ideas, and explore the latest in high-performance computing.
Don’t miss out - register now! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D...
Cartoon-style blue image of Durham, overlayed with "Durham HPC Days 2026"
🏰 🧑💻 Register for the Durham HPC Days now! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D...
Registration closes on April 20.
Have a peek at the programme (more is still being scheduled) to see what is planned for the week! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D...
Wondering how to further knowledge exchange in your DRI community? Have look at the CAKE website to see which calls are currently open: www.cake.ac.uk/opportunities/
#knowledgeexchange #DRI
The CAKE team is meeting up in sunny Durham today, to do some reviewing, adjusting and planning of our activities at the one-year mark.
Lots of exciting stuff coming up!
- April 21: ACIT Hub Performance Monitoring Hackathon: www.cake.ac.uk/events/20260...
- April 28-30: SSI Collaborations Workshop: www.cake.ac.uk/events/20260...
🗓️ Check out the CAKE events calendar to see upcoming events in the UK DRI space: www.cake.ac.uk/events/
Highlights for the coming month:
Looking for funding opportunities across UK DRI?
A range of resources and funding schemes are currently available to support activities and projects. This includes the newly announced second cohort of CAKE Knowledge Exchange Fellows 🎉 . Explore the opportunities here: 🍰https://www.cake.ac.uk/funds/🍰
Find more information, read about what current fellow are up to, and apply to become a Knowledge Exchange Fellow here: www.cake.ac.uk/about/ke-fel...!
#knowledgeexchange #ukdri
🍰 🍰 🍰
🎉 🎉 🎉
The Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) project is excited to announce the opening of the call for applications for the second cohort of Knowledge Exchange Fellows!
CAKE is searching for KE champions who will support and enable knowledge exchange for a part of the DRI community.
Last week was the first meeting of the dRTP Landscape working group co-located in Edinburgh with the #ARCHER2 celebration of science. The objective is to develop and maintain a database describing roles, skills, and training related to digital Research Technical Professionals
Eleanor Broadway shares the aims of #CAKE at the #ARCHER2 celebration of science as well as pointing to our online resources and funding opportunities
Day two at the #ARCHER2 celebration of science, come pick up a branded mug to drink from with your CAKE! Then join us this afternoon for a dedicated DRI showcase session
A busy couple of days ahead at the #ARCHER2 celebration of science in Edinburgh this week, lots of DRI at the event including a dedicated showcase session on Friday afternoon. Drop by our booth for a chat and freebies!
🎂 Join the CAKE Review Committee!
Passionate about collaboration and knowledge exchange? Become a CAKE reviewer!
You’ll join our reviewer pool and be considered for assignments based on your expertise, preferences, and workload. Find out more: www.cake.ac.uk/about/review...
Want to stay in the loop?
🍰 CAKE has a Slack workspace and a mailing list, helping you to keep up to date with all things DRI and knowledge exchange. Head over to cake.ac.uk/involved to sign up!
#knowledgeexchange#DRI#CAKE
📢 What’s On This Week 📢
Missed these events? No problem - there’s lots more happening across the DRI community. Discover upcoming sessions, workshops and opportunities on the CAKE Events Calendar 📆 www.cake.ac.uk/events/
Performance monitoring hackathon to build dashboards and explore accelerated compute efficiency run by ACIT-Hub on 21st April. Access to Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300x nodes, focus on building dashboards, improving efficiency, & sharing knowledge. www.cake.ac.uk/events/20260...
16th International Conference on Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics (PPAM) will be held end of August in Poznań, Poland. Call for papers is currently open deadline April 24th. More details at ppam.edu.pl/docs/PPAM202...
Fancy a deep dive into DRI? The DRI retreat, organised by N8 and UKRI, runs from 23rd - 27th March. A range of sessions, including support for writing applications to #DRI project flexible funding calls for your ideas. More information at n8cir.org.uk/training-and...
Want to stay in the loop?
CAKE has a Slack workspace and a mailing list, helping you to keep up to date with all things DRI and knowledge exchange. Head over to cake.ac.uk/involved to sign up!
#knowledgeexchange #DRI #CAKE
The Fortran Index hackathon is running online later today, 14:00 to 16:30. This session focusing on overhauling the fortran-lang package index. Still time to register, see www.cake.ac.uk/events/20260...
#fortran #HPC
Inclusive Pathways for the Futures of National Federated Compute Services to be held in Edinburgh 17 March 2026. Exploring how people engage with federated DRI and where the blockers lie. More details and signup www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...
Reimagining Data Science Careers in Biomedicine Survey which will directly inform funders and institutes on what’s worked (or should) to accelerate biomedical data science leadership in UK research. Closes 6th March, and £50 prize draw
tinyurl.com/cz7bjzdy
📢 New blog from CAKE Fellow Lewis Sampson!
STFC Kubernetes Workshop – K8s CAKE Fellowship 🧁
Bringing the K8s community together to share knowledge & build accessible training resources.
Read more 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/news/stfc-k8...
#K8s #RSE #OpenSource #CAKE
Last week UKRI announced a £76m investment in UK DRI, funding four new machines at University of Birmingham (GPU-based), University of Cambridge (GPU-based), UCL (CPU-based) and EPCC (CPU-based). More details www.ukri.org/news/new-nat...
The ARCHER2 Celebration of Science, 19th and 20th of March, will showcase not only the UK national supercomputer but also DRI. DRI focus session on the Friday afternoon,and Championing Green Digital Research day 0 workshop on 18th. www.archer2.ac.uk/community/ev...
The SocRSE teaching and training SIG have produced a Training Landscape Survey for people across the community to have a say. More information at society-rse.org/shaping-the-...
This week saw the first in-person meet up of the ScotRSE group in Dundee. Including talks by CAKE and DisCouRSE , a major theme was driving new collaborations. Read more about it at www.cake.ac.uk/news/scotrse/
📣 Call for Placements&Visits Applications and Reviewers! 📣
Our CAKE Placements & Visits scheme is here to break down barriers and bring brilliant people together. Apply now 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/about/placem...
#CAKE #Collaboration #DRI #FundingOpportunity
