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ALICE-SHARK User Meeting 2025

ALICE-SHARK User Meeting 2025

Announcement

We are excited to announce that the ALICE-SHARK User Meeting 2025 will take place on Tuesday, 3 June 2025 from 10:00 - 14:00 in the Pieter-de-la-Court building room 1B.01

If you are a current, past or possible future user of the ALICE HPC cluster at Leiden University or the SHARK HPC cluster at the Leiden University Medical Center (or both), this meeting is for you. Our goal is to bring the user communities of both clusters together to connect with each other and the support teams of both clusters. The meeting is also of interest to users who are not yet actively using one of the two clusters.

The meeting will include an overview and update for both clusters, a selection of talks from users and an interactive Q&A session with the support teams.

Attendance is possible in person and remotely. For in-person attendees, the meeting will be held in room 1B01 of the Pieter de la Court building. For remote attendees, all sessions will be streamed live with Microsoft Teams with the possibility to ask questions remotely.

Registration

Registration for the meeting is mandatory. The number of people that can attend in-person is limited by the space of the room and will be filled on a first-come-first-serve basis.

There is no registration fee for the meeting and lunch will be provided for in-person participants

If you want to register for the meeting, please send an e-mail to the ALICE helpdesk with the information below:

  • ALICE or SHARK username (if available):

  • Have you already been using ALICE or SHARK actively? (Yes/No):

  • Do you plan to attend in person? (Yes/No):

  • If you plan to attend in person, do you have any dietary constraints or allergies?

  • Would you like to give a talk? (Yes/No):

  • If you want to give a talk, please provide us with the following until the abstract submission deadline (Monday, 5 May 2025 at 23:59 CEST):

    • Title:

    • Short abstract:

    • Do you consent to the streaming of your talk? (Yes/No):

    • Do you consent that the speaker name and title of the talk will be publicly listed? (Yes/No):

Important dates

  • Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 5 May 2025 at 23:59 CEST

  • Speaker selection and schedule: Monday, 12 May 2025

  • Deadline for registration: Sunday, 1 June 2025 at 23:59 CEST

  • User Meeting: Tuesday, 3 June 2025 from 10:00 till 14:00 CEST

When & Where

  • When: Tuesday, 3 June 2025 from 10:00 till 14:00 CEST

  • Where:

    • in-person participants: Peter De La Court building, room 1B01 and Microsoft Teams

    • remote participants: Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams space (for in-person and remote participants)

All participants (in-person and remote) will be added to a Microsoft Teams space created specifically for the meeting. This has worked well last year which is why we will use it again this year.

The advantage for us is that Teams provide both, live streaming (with chat for questions) and a separate chat functionality for all participants independent of the live stream in multiple channels in a single application. The tool is also officially supported by both organizations (LEI and LUMC). 

The Teams space can be actively used by all participants. We strongly encourage you to make use of it before and during the meeting independent of how you attend the meeting. The General channel contains two tabs next to Files with information about the Teams space and the schedule.

The meeting space will be created two weeks prior to the meeting. An invitation to join the Teams space will be send around to all participants.

Schedule

The following table shows a tentative schedule for the meeting:

Start Time

End Time

Title

Speaker

Start Time

End Time

Title

Speaker

10:00

10:15

Arrival Participants

 

10:15

10:20

Welcome

TBA

10:20

10:40

Overview/Update ALICE

ALICE Team

10:40

11:00

Overview/Update SHARK

SHARK Team

11:00

11:05

Handover speaker

 

11:05

11:20

User talk 1 - TBA

TBA

11:20

11:25

Handover speaker

 

11:25

11:40

User talk 2 - TBA

TBA

11:40

11:45

Handover speaker

 

11:45

12:00

User talk 3 - TBA

TBA

12:00

12:05

Handover speaker

 

12:05

12:45

Lunch

 

12:45

13:00

User talk 4 - TBA

TBA

13:05

13:50

Q&A with ALICE - SHARK Team

ALICE & SHARK Teams

13:50

13:55

Closing

 

 

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