2024 HPCC Systems Community Summit

General Talks, Breakout Sessions, Poster Displays and Workshops

We are excited to announce the 11th annual HPCC Systems Community Summit will be held virtually this October! This year’s theme is Igniting Innovation and is free to attend and open to all users of HPCC Systems throughout RELX and the broader open source community. This worldwide event will offer plenary and breakout sessions covering a wide variety of topics, a high quality virtual workshop, as well as presentations and technical posters from students working on HPCC Systems related projects. The purpose of the Summit is to gather engineers, data scientists and technology professionals to share knowledge and future roadmap plans for the HPCC Systems platform. This event is dedicated to showcase our community and have industry and academia present their HPCC Systems use cases, research projects and share their experience on how they leverage the HPCC Systems platform.

Replays are available!

It was a great week of informative and compelling talks, an engaging workshop and superb academic posters! View the high level agenda for an overview of the schedule. The full playlists of all the sessions, workshop, and poster presentation videos are accessible on the HPCC Systems YouTube channel.

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Poster Presentations Competition

The 9th annual poster presentations competition will be held as part of the Community Virtual Summit, showcasing the work of our academia community on how students leverage the HPCC Systems platform. In addition to the standard judged categories, the Community Choice Award will have our virtual attendees participate in the voting of their favorite poster. Winners were announced as part of the Community Recognition and Awards Ceremony during the Summit.

View the contest rules for more information.

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Virtual ECL Workshop – Sleep Well with ECL: Job Automation and Scheduling

This year, the HPCC Systems Training and Support team will showcase the latest work regarding ECL Scheduling and Process Automation. In addition, many ECL best practices are demonstrated along the way.

Monday, October 7, 2024, 12:30PM – 2:30PM (ET)
Topics for this workshop include:

• Creating and using FUNCTIONMACROs
• Creating and using MACROs
• The ECL Template Language
• Automating ECL
• ECL Scheduling

During the summit week, a workshop cluster will be available with the sample datasets sprayed and ready to use. Code examples will also be available for download for you to examine and modify as needed. This is a virtual workshop event that will also be recorded for your convenience and repeat viewing.

Prerequisites: It is recommended that the attendee have a basic understanding of HPCC Systems and ECL. We recommend that you complete our free online Introduction to ECL Courses (Part 1 and 2) before attending.

Instructor:
Bob Foreman, Software Engineering Lead, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, has worked with the HPCC Systems platform and ECL for over 13 years and has been a technical teacher for 40 years. He is the lead developer of the HPCC Systems Online Training Courses and is the Senior Instructor for all classroom and remote training.

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Key Dates
Speaking Proposal Deadline: July 19, 2024 (Closed)
Poster Abstract Deadline: July 29, 2024 (Closed)
Community Virtual Summit: October 7 – 11, 2024
Virtual ECL Workshop: October 7, 2024

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