Alces Flight announces 2025 Keynote and Sessions

Our Sustainable Reality event is headed to London in October, 2025 with RSC Fellow, Nathan Brown, kicking off our event with a history of supercomputing and the world of drug discovery. Have a look at our session outline, including the themes on Designing for Better, Energy States, Rising Elements, and Opportunities & Actions.

Alces Flight – May, 2025 News

The Flight Crew is bringing back our community event, Sustainable Reality, for another year… Get our take on how Quantum Computing is moving from theory into reality.

Alces Flight – March, 2025 News

The University of Liverpool readies to welcome the second iteration of their supercomputing service, Barkla, to campus… The Flight Crew explores common hosting issues in HPC… and how avoiding vendor lock-in can be a benefit to your research and business.

Alces Flight – December, 2024 News

We close out 2024 with a future-ready playbook for supercomputing… re-cap of our time in Manchester and CIUK… and a look at how Supercomputing by Subscription is reducing the barriers of entry into HPC+AI.

Alces Flight – October, 2024 News

The Alces Flight crew is headed back to the USA in November – exhibiting at SC24 in Atlanta, GA… Our 2024 Sustainable Reality Community Event includes some time with a working Enigma Machine… and Supercomputing by Subscription launches.

Alces Flight – August, 2024 News

Our August coverage includes a deep dive into supercomputing’s environmental impact… what makes up an “ideal” graduate worker in the field of HPC… and the latest on our 2024 Community Event – Sustainable Reality.

Alces Flight – Summer, 2024 News

Our July update includes a new perspective on supercomputing from our very own ‘Kid Intern,’ updates on our 2024 HPC Community Event, ‘Sustainable Reality,’ and the launch of our Sustainability Strategy.

Alces Flight unveils 2024 Sustainability Strategy

The Flight crew is pleased to launch our Sustainability Strategy, showcasing our commitment to long-term and ecological development within the High-Performance Computing (HPC) industry. This strategy not only reflects our performance but also outlines our ambitions, actions, targets, and the ongoing efforts to measure our progress in this field.

Alces Flight June 2024 News: ISC Highlights

Explore Alces Flight’s latest innovations at ISC’24: Launch of Flight Alliance and Carbon Leaderboard for sustainability. Engage in our dynamic WHPC Solution Forum Takeover and impactful charity initiatives. Discover Viking 2’s eco-friendly upgrade at University of York. Learn about HPC efficiency essentials and our commitment to social sustainability.

Alces Flight February 2024 News: Inclusive Horizons

This month we’re bringing news around the work we are doing in inclusivity, highlighting Alan Real and his work at the Durham University, giving insights from the team running the Winter Classic HPC Student Cluster Competition, and talking about professional development with Vashti Whitfield.

HPC Ecosystem Creates Community

Wil Mayers, Technical Consultant, and Cristin Merritt, CMO, share their insights on how the convergence of HPC and AI is causing the doors of opportunity to open for those who wish to be a part of the supercomputing community. Their contribution is part of the SC24 piece on how HPC creates community.

Moving the Needle: Bringing Diversity to the Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition

Cristin Merritt, CMO of Alces Flight, shares with HPCwire a discussion with Dan Olds, Chief Research Officer of Intersect360 Research, about how his novel idea for a Student Cluster Competition targeted at historically black and Hispanic colleges in the US came into being and continues to thrive. Part of the Move the Needle Project for 2024. […]

Looking Ahead to 2024:

As we step into the new year we are continuing our series on long-term High Performance Computing sustainability within the industry. Here are the next set of highlights from our Sustainable Reality event!