NAISS User Forum and All Hands 2023

NAISS User Forum and NAISS All Hands program 5-6 December 2023

Venue: Collegium, Teknikringen 7, Linköping

Dear all,

It is time to sign up for the NAISS Users Forum (NUF) to be held lunch-to-lunch 5-6 December in Linköping.

The User forum is the chance for all NAISS users, representing all diverse fields of science, to bring forward their views and perspectives on NAISS. Our infrastructure organization is in its its first year and stand before large investments and strategic decisions. So it is a crucial time to make your voice heard. We hope to see you in Linköping in December.

The NUF is held in parallell with the first NAISS all-hands meeting, bringing together the staff from across Sweden, working with or in close collaboration with NAISS. The all-hands meeting will share part of the program with the NUF, while some sessions will be distinct. We also plan for an extra afternoon program for the staff, after the closing of the NUF, on December 6.

Registration Fee

Due to current tax regulations, NAISS needs to charge a registration fee of 150 SEK per person from all external participants. Registration fee will be requested from the respective university afterwards, a grand total for all participants together from the university in question.

Accommodation

When you are going to book a hotel in Linköping, you can primarily choose either Scandic Frimurarehotellet or Scandic Linköping Väst where you can get a better price if you state a discount code:

Registration

Deadline for signing up: 20 November

Signup form

Program

Online streams in red colour! All sessions are in the same Zoom room.

Tue 5 December

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:15 Welcome

13:15-14:00 The current status of NAISS, existing services and ongoing developments
Jan-Eric Sundgren, NAISS Chairman
Björn Alling, Acting NAISS Director

14:00-15:00 The Arrhenius NAISS-EuroHPC system
Gert Svensson and Niclas Andersson, NAISS Technical Directors

15:00-16:00 Coffee (cake and sandwiches)

15:15-16:45 Group and plenary discussions, users perspectives on services and priorities for the future

16:45-17:30 The NAISS way for user support and NAISS branches
Torben Rasmussen and Henrik Zazzi, NAISS User Support Managers

Visit of Visualization Centre, Norrköping, and Dinner

17:30-18:15 Bus transport to Visualization Centre in Norrköping

18:15-21:00 Visualization show and dinner (Buffet):

Please note the length of the queue to the buffet and, if necessary, please start by visiting the early dome show:

21:00-21:45 Bus back to Linköping

Wed 6 December

08:30-09:00 National Allocations Committee (NAC), presenting trends in applications and currently allocation policy issues
Paul Erhardt, NAC Chairman
Peter Münger, NAC Secretary

09:00-10:30 Coffee

09:00-10:30 Group and plenary discussion on user support and allocation policies. Nomination to the User Support Advisory Committee (USAC).

Online stream starts 10:00.

10:30-11:50 Panel discussion about current and future trends within scientific HPC, storage and big data, consequences for Swedish research
Branislav Jansík, IT4Innovations, Czech Republic
Erik Lindahl, NAISS Steering Group, Sweden
More participants TBC

11:50-12:00 Closing remarks for NUF

12:00-13:00 Lunch

NAISS All Hands staff meeting continues

13:00 - 13:30 Welcome to NAISS staff from Björn Alling

Afterwards there will be two parallel sections to choose between:

13:30 – 17:00 Track 1, Support across all NAISS services

13:30 – 17:00 Track 2, Arrhenius procurement startup