19th RES Users' Conference
19th RES Users' Conference
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Event overview and register
The Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) organizes the RES Annual Users Conference with the purpose of providing updates on RES developments and offering relevant information about access to its resources and the European HPC ecosystem. This event serves as a meeting point for users, support technicians, and the users committee.
- AI and Deep Learning applied to scientific research
- Green science and sustainability
- Science promotion through seminars and workshops
In addition, during the gala dinner, we will present the RES-HPC Award which recognizes outstanding contributions to research, development, and/or dissemination in supercomputing in Spain.
You can register for JURES25 by clicking on the text below:
(Until 12/09/2025)
Sponsors
Venue
The venue of the event is the Baluarte Convention Center, in Pamplona, Navarra.
Provisional agenda
| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 | |
| 12:00h | Talk with students "Impacto de la IA en nuestro futuro profesional: desde la formación hasta el mundo laboral" Moderator: Nicanor Zalba — CEO de InsAIght Center Humberto Bustince — Catedrático en Ciencias de la Computación e IA |
| 15:00h | Technical workshop by SchedMD: "Understanding job lifecycle in Slurm" A short introduction to Slurm and its latest features, followed by an overview of some of the Slurm internals that take place during the Job lifecycle: from submission to termination. Finally, it will be discussed how to better handle some real-world issues with Slurm, for both Users and Admins. |
| 16:45h | Technical Workshop by DELL/NVIDIA: "Challenges of Energy Consumption and Cooling in Your Data Center Today and in the Future" The deployment of artificial intelligence applications requires infrastructures capable of delivering high performance with controlled energy consumption. In this workshop, DELL engineers will address these challenges by analyzing performance optimization and energy efficiency at all levels: chip, server, rack, and data center. |
| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 | |
| 10:00h | REGISTRATION OPEN |
| 10:30h | Opening Session |
| 11:00h | Thematic Panel: "AI & Deep Learning applied to Scientific Research" Moderator: Oriol Lemkuhl — Barcelona Supercomputing Center Carlos Sanmiguel — Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial "Esteban Terradas" |
| 12:30h | COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION |
| 13:15h | RES Outstanding Paper Award 2024 Talk by Adrián Gutiérrez |
| 13:45h | RES Awards 2025 RES Outstanding Paper Award 2025 |
| 14:00h | LUNCH BREAK |
| 15:30h | Thematic Panel: "Science promotion through seminars and workshops" Moderator: Oriol Pineda — Barcelona Supercomputing Center Olfat Khannous — Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona |
| 18:00h | END OF DAY 1 |
| 19:00h | Social Activity: Pamplona guided tour - Meeting point: Plaza del Castillo |
| 20:15h | OFFICIAL JURES 2025 DINNER: RES-HPC Award Ceremony |
| THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 | |
| 09:30h | Objectives, Mission and Impact of the RES Sergi Girona — Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
| 10:00h | RES Users Committee — Review 2024 José Javier Plata — Universidad de Sevilla |
| 10:30h | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00h | Thematic Panel: "Green Science and Sustainability" Moderator: Marta Goñi — INTIA Gonzalo Rodríguez Ordóñez — NASERTIC |
| 12:30h | END OF DAY 2 |
Parallel Events
Within the framework of JURES25, two events focused on technologies and projects closely related to supercomputing and RES services will be held in parallel:
| QUANTUM Computing: RES capabilities and use cases 16/09/25 at 15:00h | |
| Session Summary | QuantumSpain, BSC and CESGA organizes a session aimed to share RES' QUANTUM capabilities and a collection of use cases to showcase potential applications of this new kind of resources. If you want to join live, you can do it here. |
| 15:00h | Session presentation: Welcome & RES' QUANTUM infrastructure |
| 17:00h | Roundtables on Quantum Research and Applications
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| 19:00h | END OF SESSION |
| BSC AI Factory: Supercomputing and Artificial Intelligence at the service of companies 16/09/25 at 15:00h | |
| Session Summary | BSC AI Factory organizes a special session aimed at SMEs and local ecosystem agents to showcase how supercomputing and advanced AI can be applied to real challenges. The BSC AI Factory initiative will be presented, along with specific use cases in which various organizations have leveraged MareNostrum5's capabilities to generate innovative solutions. |
| 15:00h | BSC AI Factory Presentation: services, access, and opportunities for companies |
| 15:30h | Roundtable on successful cases of companies using AI Moderation: Nair Center (Navarra AI Research Center) Multiverse Computing InsAIght Center Tesicnor |
| 16:30h | END OF SESSION |
👉REGISTRATION FOR THE SIDE EVENTS IS OPEN👈
(Until 12/09/2025)
Apply to the RES Awards and Travel Grants
Applications for the awards and the travel grants are made via the application form.
With the aim of recognising excellent scientific works performed using RES resources, the conference will deliver the following awards:
RES Best Poster Award: Given to the author of the most meritorious poster presented at the RES Users' Conference. The works presented MUST have been carried out using RES supercomputing, AI or data resources. The winner will be decided during the the conference by popular vote and will be entitled to a travel grant for next year's RES Users' Conference.
RES Best Paper Award: Given to the author of the most excellent paper presented in the registration process. The works presented MUST have been carried out using RES supercomputing, AI or data resources. The winner will be decided by the RES Council based on the proposals of the Access Committee coordinators which will evaluate the applications by the excellence of both the work and the author. Winning the award entitles the author to give an oral presentation about their paper in next year's conference.
Travel Grants: Aimed at covering transport and accommodation to young researchers (usually MSc and PhD students, or recent PhDs) presenting a poster to the conference. The organisation will cover travel expenses, up to 500€ maximum following BSC regulation.