Lessons from LLNL & Man in Supercomputing & AI
🚫 Not only no selling but also strictly no AI hype for this one 🚫
Where
Farringdon, London
When
8 July 2026 @ 17:00
Details
Lessons from LLNL & Man Group in Supercomputing & AI
8 July 2026 @ 17:00
Crypt on the Green, Farringdon, London
With the current hype, it can be confusing about what AI can really do, and potential benefits for science and the financial industry. For this HPC Club, we invite computer scientists working on the number one supercomputer on the Top 500 list, El Capitan, and also from real practitioners in financial services. Please attend to learn insights from these two spaces that are driven by the practical need to work on challenging problems.
Speakers
As always HPC Club is open to anyone working in, studying or just interested in HPC. In order to enable our speakers to attend we have had to exclude anyone working in the press from this event. Sorry!
Agenda
Registration
Arrive, grab a drink and get comfortable
Welcome
Hamza MianA warm welcome to everyone, introductions and a bit of context (pun intended)
Hardware in the AI Age: A Buy-Side Perspective
Abhi ThakurDo I need a water-cooled GPU cluster, or is an open-weight model on a laptop good enough? Abhi will talk through the questions he's thinking through: winners, losers, and how to plot a path with an evolving frontier.
GPUs, Converged Computing, Flux Framework: Lessons from LLNL
Vanessa Sochat & Daniel Milroy (LLNL)LLNL has been at the forefront of accelerated compute, the convergence of cloud and on premises software defined supercomputers and how to bring this all together. Vanessa and Daniel talk about all the latest developments.
Food served
Food services starts. Time for networking and informal discussion
Close
Hopefully all the food has been eaten. The venue will close so we have to leave but you don't have to go home.