Yesterday, we celebrated 30 years of HLRS with partners and friends from across the #HPC community. Three panel discussions explored the frontiers of HPC in science, industry, and the importance of cooperation. Thank you to all our speakers and guests for celebrating this milestone with us!
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Congratulations to Francis Halzen on winning the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics! ๐๏ธ His leadership of NSF @icecube_neutrino led to the discovery of high-energy neutrinos. They've used over 800k node hours and 4.3 PB data storage on TACC systems. Looking forward to new IceCube discoveries! โ๏ธ๐ญ
The #HPSFcon 2027 CFP is open! Share your HPC software, community & AI dev work in Montreal, April 12-16. Submit your proposal by Sunday, January 17. Learn more + submit: bit.ly/3VAd5FI
The EGI Node has entered production in the EOSC Federation! Weโre delivering scalable compute, storage, & AI tools for data-intensive science, such as powering AI in Neurodesk for neuroimaging. Marking this milestone at #EOSCSymposium 2026! Press release ๐ go.egi.eu/3QMlB #EOSC #OpenScience
Todayโs stop: Croatia ๐ญ๐ท From #CulturalHeritage and #AI to cybersecurity and yacht design. Using #Supek, researchers turned 2,136 photographs into a 65 GB 3D reconstruction of Dubrovnikโs Small Onofrio Fountain. Explore NCC Croatia: hpc-portal.eu/nccs/ncc-cro... #Supercomputing #CASTIEL #EuroCC
OpenAIRE and Free Knowledge Africa have signed an MoU to strengthen the visibility and discoverability of African research and connect research sources to wider Open Science infrastructures. ๐ Read more about the partnership: l1nq.com/11l5379 #FreeKnowledgeAfrica #OpenScience #AfricanResearch
The Edinburgh International Data Facility provided the secure HPC required by Dr Prasun Dutta and colleagues at Oxford University to analyse 3.7 trillion bases of sensitive genomic data. Read more about this vital research into rare disease cases: edin.ac/4dLJRdt
#Fujitsu presented MONAKA @ #HotChips. What stood out: as #AI & #HPC evolve #CPU throughput matters. Our takeaway: flow-computing.com/news/hot-chi... Thank you to Ryohei Okazaki, Fujitsu & #HotChips2026 Symposium for the presentation & Q&A. @developer.arm.com #Semiconductor #DeepTech #FlowPPU
#AlphaEvolve's greatest use case may be HPC: using AI to find the maximum "performance" of HPC applications, including with mixed-precision algorithms! Learn how to use it online on TUESDAY, Oct 13, noon ET/9am PT. Register here ---> goo.gle/4zibKC2
๐ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐๐ฉ! In Krakรณw and online, teams are optimising their HPC and #AI codes on #JUPITER and #Helios with expert mentors ๐ป Two more days to go. Stay tuned! โก #EPICURE #HPC #EuroHPC
๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ! The full programme of the 3rd HANAMI Symposium is now online. ๐๏ธ 2โ5 Nov 2026 | Kittilรค, Finland ๐ Climate | ๐งฌ Biomedical | โ๏ธ Materials science ๐ค Keynotes from @riken-sciverse.bsky.social, Institute of Science Tokyo, @cea.fr and more. #HANAMI #HPC #Japan
๐ Our latest expert blog dives into LUMI's #AI software environment, which provides prebuilt, performance-optimized containers for LUMI. Whether you're new to LUMI or scaling advanced AI workloads, the software environment makes getting started easier. Blog:โก๏ธ lumi-ai-factory.eu/articles/ben... #hpc
๐ค Meet the #BSD26 Speakers Meet Wilbert den Hertog from UHasselt, presenting โUsing the VSC to simulate how wounds healโ and exploring the role of #HPC in burn wound simulations. ๐ 13 Nov | Brussels ๐๏ธ Register: www.vscentrum.be/bsd26 #Supercomputing #Research
We had a successful and really productive #MPI_Forum meeting the past two days at @tuwien.at #MPI #HPC
I like the discussion around AMD versus Intel, particularly which company is likely to gain more share in data center CPUs. What Iโm struggling to understand is why so many people expect AMD to gain significantly more share when recent performance seems to suggest otherwise.