Name: IRIS Collaboration Meeting - Byte by Byte, Watt by Watt: Smarter Systems
Start: 2025-07-01T11:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-07-02T19:00:00+00:00
Location: University of Durham

IRIS Collaboration Meeting - Byte by Byte, Watt by Watt: Smarter Systems

from Tuesday 1 July 2025 (11:30) to Wednesday 2 July 2025 (19:00)

Monday 30 June 2025
Tuesday 1 July 2025

11:30 Registration & Coffee
Registration & Coffee
11:30 - 12:00

12:00 Networking Lunch
Networking Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Overview
Overview
13:00 - 15:00
Contributions

13:00 Welcome & Logistics - Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)

13:05 Welcome from Durham - Alastair Basden (University of Durham)

13:25 IRIS State of Union - Jonathan Hays (Queen Mary)

13:45 IRIS Project Update - Anjali Bhatt (STFC (UKRI) IRIS)

14:05 10 Years On - Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)

14:25 Cosmology Talk from Durham - Sarah Johnston (University of Durham)
15:00 Refreshments
Refreshments
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:20
Contributions

15:30 Avoiding Rebounds in Sustainable HPC Use - Carolynne Lord (University of Lancaster)

15:45 STFC Update - Tom Griffin (STFC)

16:05 TBC - Andrew Sansum (STFC, Scientific Computing Department)

16:25 Storage cost optimisation on COSMA/Using NVMe for ultra-fast Lustre - Alastair Basden (University of Durham)

16:45 Security Update - David Crooks (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Matt Doidge (Lancaster University)
18:30 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
18:30 - 20:30
Wednesday 2 July 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Getting the best out of Jisc's Janet network - Christopher Walker (Jisc)

09:20 Evaluating performance and power consumption of Ceph storage configurations - Tom Byrne (UKRI STFC - RAL)

09:50 TBC - Fatima Chami (STFC)

10:10 SKAO on software optimisation - TBC - Ugur Yilmaz (SKAO Int)
10:30 Refreshments
Refreshments
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:10
Contributions

11:00 Experience with composable fabrics - Paul Walker (University of Durham)

11:20 TBC - Ville Uski (IRIS IAM)

11:40 How Diamond Light Source Efficiently Schedules Compute on IRIS - Christopher Reynolds

12:00 Efficient Cloud Utilisation on Gaia and PLATO - Patrick Burgess

12:30 Seamless Science: - Laura Crawford (RFI)

12:45 Federated Kubernetes with Geo-Distributed IRIS IAM - Donald Chung (STFC)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 16:00