Workshop on event organisation led by DisCouRSE #DRI project will run June 16 to June 18. Looking to teach participants how to organize and run novel or unconventional events. Exploring both practicalities and more philosophical considerations. More details at www.cake.ac.uk/events/20260...

Announcing our keynote speakers for #DurhamHPCDays ! On Tuesday afternoon, Alice-Agnes Gabriel will talk about "Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Supercomputers: From Hero Runs to Digital Twins" More about Alice-Agnes and the keynote: hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D... 🏰 🧑‍💻 🍰 ☕️

💡 Placements offer a great opportunity to exchange knowledge, start collaborations, or deepen existing ones. However, it can be hard (or impossible) to go somewhere for an in-person placement.

Announcing our keynote speakers for #DurhamHPCDays ! In our very first keynote this year, Sven-Bodo Scholz will talk about "How to have the cake and eat it too -- Rank-Polymorphism for Productivity and Performance " More about Sven-Bodo and the keynote: hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D... 🏰 🧑‍💻 🍰

The CAKE website publishes funding opportunities across the DRI programme. The next is the DisCouRSE project, looking for projects that will help the development of leaders of all kinds across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles. www.cake.ac.uk/funds/

The xDSL project came out of the UK's ExCALIBUR exascale programme and has continued to grow from strength to strength since then. It has featured in Github's May maintainer spotlight maintainermonth.github.com/academia/xds...

ISC, Europe's largest HPC conference, is only a few weeks away. Many sessions at the conference are being run by UK based researchers, or involve them as speakers. We have written a summary up at www.cake.ac.uk/news/isc26/

📰 Check out our latest blog post: CAKE at ISC 2026: UK involvement in Europe’s leading HPC conference! 📰 The CAKE team will be at ISC 2026. Read up on what we are doing and the breadth of UK HPC and DRI representation across the whole event. www.cake.ac.uk/news/isc26/

Announcing our second keynote speaker for #DurhamHPCDays ! Our Wednesday pre-lunch slot has Melyssa Fratkin discussing "What Works? Academic-Industry Collaborations Across Borders - US vs EU models" More about Melyssa and the keynote: hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D... 🏰 🧑‍💻 🍰 ☕️

Want to stay in the loop? CAKE has a Slack workspace and a mailing list, helping you to keep up to date with all things DRI and knowledge exchange. Head over to www.cake.ac.uk/about/who-ar... to sign up! #knowledgeexchange#DRI#CAKE

📣 We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers for the #DurhamHPCDays ! In the Tuesday morning keynote slot, John McCalpin will talk about "Why are High Performance Computing Systems still based on 1980’s Architectures?" More about John and his keynote: hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D... 🏰 🧑‍💻

🎂 🍰 REMINDER! The deadline for the second cohort of Knowledge Exchange Fellowships is tomorrow 19th May 2026. Good luck to all that apply! Apply here! www.cake.ac.uk/about/ke-fel... #knowledgeexchange #ukdri #RTP #dRTP #fellows

🏰 👩‍💻 🍰 Free online registration has now opened for many #DurhamHPCDays sessions! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D...

The @researchskills.bsky.social brings together a national catalogue of digital research training and one-to-one expert support for researchers across the UK. There are lots of opportunities to get involved, and upcoming events - more details at www.cake.ac.uk/news/drsc/

📰 Check out our latest blog post: Collaboration, Community and a Winning Hack Day at CW26! 📰 Read more 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/news/CW26/

🎂 Become a CAKE reviewer! 🎂 🤔 How it works: 💭 You’ll join our reviewer pool and be matched to opportunities based on your expertise, interests, and availability. Interested? Find out more and apply here: www.cake.ac.uk/about/review...

Wondering how to further knowledge exchange in your DRI community? Have a look at the CAKE website to see which calls are currently open: www.cake.ac.uk/opportunities/ #knowledgeexchange #DRI

Register for the Durham HPC Days 2026 (June 15-19, Durham, UK) today! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D... The Durham HPC Days bring together researchers, Research Technical Professionals and HPC vendors to talk all things HPC - and have a great time doing so! 👨‍💻 👩‍🏫 🍕 🍻 💬 🏰

Looking for funding opportunities across UK DRI? A range of resources and funding schemes are currently available to support activities and projects. Explore what’s on offer here: 🍰 www.cake.ac.uk/funds/ 🍰

Excellent keynote at #CollabW26 by one of CAKE’s Co-Is, Eleanor Broadway! 🙌 🍰 She also highlighted different ways to get involved with CAKE, including current funding opportunities - check them out here: www.cake.ac.uk/opportunities/

🍰 👩‍💻 🧑‍🏫 🍰 Our call for knowledge exchange fellowship applications is open! Deadline: 19th May 2026 Visit our website to learn more about what the fellowships offer, how to apply, and what our current cohort of KE fellows is up to: www.cake.ac.uk/about/ke-fel...

🎂 Become a CAKE reviewer! 🎂 Help shape collaboration in the DRI community while gaining insight into how funding decisions are made. We welcome both new and experienced reviewers. Interested? Find out more and apply here: www.cake.ac.uk/about/review...

Next week is the CW26 - and CAKE will be there! 🎉 ⭐️ Session: “Oops, did we do it right? Lessons from Successful Collaborations” ⭐️ Eleanor Broadway will be giving a keynote If you’re attending, come say hello, we’d love to chat! :) Find out more: www.software.ac.uk/workshop/col...

Registration for the Durham HPC Days 2026 CLOSES TODAY! ⏳ Don’t miss out on this key UK event, where the community gathers to network, share ideas, and explore the latest in high-performance computing. Don’t miss out - register now! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D...

📰 Curious about what happened in CAKE recently? Check our news and blog posts: www.cake.ac.uk/news/

🏰 🧑‍💻 Register for the Durham HPC Days now! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D... Registration closes on April 20. Have a peek at the programme (more is still being scheduled) to see what is planned for the week! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D...

Wondering how to further knowledge exchange in your DRI community? Have look at the CAKE website to see which calls are currently open: www.cake.ac.uk/opportunities/ #knowledgeexchange #DRI

The CAKE team is meeting up in sunny Durham today, to do some reviewing, adjusting and planning of our activities at the one-year mark. Lots of exciting stuff coming up!

🗓️ Check out the CAKE events calendar to see upcoming events in the UK DRI space: www.cake.ac.uk/events/ Highlights for the coming month:

Looking for funding opportunities across UK DRI? A range of resources and funding schemes are currently available to support activities and projects. This includes the newly announced second cohort of CAKE Knowledge Exchange Fellows 🎉 . Explore the opportunities here: 🍰https://www.cake.ac.uk/funds/🍰

🎉 🎉 🎉 The Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) project is excited to announce the opening of the call for applications for the second cohort of Knowledge Exchange Fellows! CAKE is searching for KE champions who will support and enable knowledge exchange for a part of the DRI community.

Last week was the first meeting of the dRTP Landscape working group co-located in Edinburgh with the #ARCHER2 celebration of science. The objective is to develop and maintain a database describing roles, skills, and training related to digital Research Technical Professionals

Eleanor Broadway shares the aims of #CAKE at the #ARCHER2 celebration of science as well as pointing to our online resources and funding opportunities

Day two at the #ARCHER2 celebration of science, come pick up a branded mug to drink from with your CAKE! Then join us this afternoon for a dedicated DRI showcase session

A busy couple of days ahead at the #ARCHER2 celebration of science in Edinburgh this week, lots of DRI at the event including a dedicated showcase session on Friday afternoon. Drop by our booth for a chat and freebies!

🎂 Join the CAKE Review Committee! Passionate about collaboration and knowledge exchange? Become a CAKE reviewer! You’ll join our reviewer pool and be considered for assignments based on your expertise, preferences, and workload. Find out more: www.cake.ac.uk/about/review...

Want to stay in the loop? 🍰 CAKE has a Slack workspace and a mailing list, helping you to keep up to date with all things DRI and knowledge exchange. Head over to cake.ac.uk/involved to sign up! #knowledgeexchange#DRI#CAKE

📢 What’s On This Week 📢 Missed these events? No problem - there’s lots more happening across the DRI community. Discover upcoming sessions, workshops and opportunities on the CAKE Events Calendar 📆 www.cake.ac.uk/events/

Performance monitoring hackathon to build dashboards and explore accelerated compute efficiency run by ACIT-Hub on 21st April. Access to Nvidia H200 and AMD MI300x nodes, focus on building dashboards, improving efficiency, & sharing knowledge. www.cake.ac.uk/events/20260...

16th International Conference on Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics (PPAM) will be held end of August in Poznań, Poland. Call for papers is currently open deadline April 24th. More details at ppam.edu.pl/docs/PPAM202...

Fancy a deep dive into DRI? The DRI retreat, organised by N8 and UKRI, runs from 23rd - 27th March. A range of sessions, including support for writing applications to #DRI project flexible funding calls for your ideas. More information at n8cir.org.uk/training-and...

Want to stay in the loop? CAKE has a Slack workspace and a mailing list, helping you to keep up to date with all things DRI and knowledge exchange. Head over to cake.ac.uk/involved to sign up! #knowledgeexchange #DRI #CAKE

The Fortran Index hackathon is running online later today, 14:00 to 16:30. This session focusing on overhauling the fortran-lang package index. Still time to register, see www.cake.ac.uk/events/20260... #fortran #HPC

Inclusive Pathways for the Futures of National Federated Compute Services to be held in Edinburgh 17 March 2026. Exploring how people engage with federated DRI and where the blockers lie. More details and signup www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...

Reimagining Data Science Careers in Biomedicine Survey which will directly inform funders and institutes on what’s worked (or should) to accelerate biomedical data science leadership in UK research. Closes 6th March, and £50 prize draw tinyurl.com/cz7bjzdy

📢 New blog from CAKE Fellow Lewis Sampson! STFC Kubernetes Workshop – K8s CAKE Fellowship 🧁 Bringing the K8s community together to share knowledge & build accessible training resources. Read more 👉 www.cake.ac.uk/news/stfc-k8... #K8s #RSE #OpenSource #CAKE

Last week UKRI announced a £76m investment in UK DRI, funding four new machines at University of Birmingham (GPU-based), University of Cambridge  (GPU-based), UCL (CPU-based) and EPCC (CPU-based). More details www.ukri.org/news/new-nat...

The ARCHER2 Celebration of Science, 19th and 20th of March, will showcase not only the UK national supercomputer but also DRI. DRI focus session on the Friday afternoon,and Championing Green Digital Research day 0 workshop on 18th. www.archer2.ac.uk/community/ev...

The SocRSE teaching and training SIG have produced a Training Landscape Survey for people across the community to have a say. More information at society-rse.org/shaping-the-...

This week saw the first in-person meet up of the ScotRSE group in Dundee. Including talks by CAKE and DisCouRSE , a major theme was driving new collaborations. Read more about it at www.cake.ac.uk/news/scotrse/