We were thinking to take the entire #HPC section to #SC in St Louis this year (it's time for us to build a new cluster). But for obvious reasons none of us are going, not this year nor coming years.

Fortunately, HPC Asia *and* Supercomputing Asia will have a joint 4-day conference in Osaka, Japan in January! It's perfect - not just because it's 15 minutes by bicycle from our family home; Glitch #coffee has a shop at walking distance. Just saying.

https://www.sca-hpcasia2026.jp/

Question for people involved with computational science, #supercomputing, or similar at academic institutions or national labs:

Which do you professionally self-identify as most strongly?

#HPC person?

#RSE person?

Computational scientist?

Other? If so, what?

The U.S. added dozens of companies to its export control list, including more than 50 based in China that it says sought advanced knowhow in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and quantum technology for military purposes. Read more at @AssociatedPress. #AI #China #Supercomputing #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/UCHdAN

#kunstlicheintelligenz #Quantum – das #Supercomputing wird heterogener, neue Technologien bringen andere Anwenderinnen ans LRZ: Mit einem Expertenrat aus der Wirtschaft reagiert das LRZ darauf. Mit Wieland Holfelder von Google, dem Investor Wolf Ingomar Faecks sowie Stefan Wagner von SAP wird das LRZ-Direktorat und die Leitung auch diskutieren, wie Forschungsergebnisse schneller in den wirtschaftlichen Alltag gelangen: https://www.lrz.de/presse/ereignisse/2025-02-20-Expertenrat/

#austausch, #HPC

Der #EuroHPCSummit läuft zurzeit in Krakaus schickem Kongresszentrum. Veranstaltet von der @EuroHPC_JU geht es um die Entwicklungen im #supercomputing von #europa Die Integration von Quantenprozessoren in HPC-Systeme ist ein Thema dort – und damit der EuroQExa am LRZ, das hybride System ist Teil der Quantenstrategie von EuroHPC JU, wird bei uns gehostet und voraussichtlich in diesem Jahr der europäischen Forschung zur Verfügung gestellt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQpOq7TZL88

„Deutschland und Europa können bei der #KI eine führende Rolle einnehmen“, sagt BM Cem Özdemir. Dazu müssen wir unsere Stärken in der Forschung noch besser auf die Straße bringen – so wie im #CyberValley. Der Minister besuchte dort das #AI Center in #Tübingen und das Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum #Stuttgart (#HLRS).
#Supercomputing #GCS

Supercomputer Draws Molecular Blueprint For Repairing Damaged DNA - Using the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National La... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/0035232/supercomputer-draws-molecular-blueprint-for-repairing-damaged-dna?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #supercomputing

Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/dare_europe_risc_v_project/
#linux #hardware #riscv #supercomputing

#Europe bets on #RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/dare_europe_risc_v_project/

"Do you #DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for #supercomputing #sovereignty
€240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for #HPC, #AI"

If the #EU would take this serious, that should have been Billions instead if Millions. And not a 3y sprint.

This would be really worth the investment. We need much more than that. Yesterday.

HPC-Launch

A 1-day course on High-Performance Computing (#HPC) & Research Data Management (#RDM).

Basic knowledge of R/Python/bash recommended.

8 April
Panum, University of Copenhagen
Register: https://heads.ku.dk/calendar/2025/courses/hpc-launch-spring-2025/

Bundesforschungsminister Cem Özdemir hat eine klare Empfehlung an eine zukünftige deutsche Regierung. Denn das BMBF ist ein #Zukunftsministerium.

“The tyranny of integers, binary, and grayscale when building large #supercomputing infrastructures“

Who came up with such a silly title for a talk? Oh yeah, I did!

Also will discuss if/when a hyperscaler will take the #1 spot on the #Top500.

#AI #HPC

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewjones_top500-supercomputer-ai-activity-7296476367490043904-UFbi?utm_source=share

A look back at Blue Gene https://www.ibm.com/history/blue-gene #IBM #HPC #supercomputing #supercomputer

Call for Contributions: 2nd Workshop on Research Software Engineering in HPC (RSEHPC@ISC25), to be held in conjunction with #ISC25!

RSE? HPC? HPC? RSE? Those fields are sometimes quite close to each other. One instance is the upcoming RSEHPC workshop at ISC25, June 13, 2025, in Hamburg. We are looking for contributions from the field of continuous integration and benchmarking for HPC!

Lightning talk proposals are due Feb 28.

Further details: https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/events/2025_06_13-rsehpcatisc.html

Exciting news for climate science: #MPIM is among the first users of what will soon be the fastest computer in all of Europe – JUPITER (@fzj)! A corresponding proposal submitted by MPI-M, #DKRZ and #JSC has now been approved. This allows our scientists to push the resolution of a fully coupled Earth system model to just one kilometer! Can you imagine this level of detail?
Read more: https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/detail-view-news-homepage/mpi-m-is-one-of-the-first-users-of-europes-fastest-supercomputer-jupiter
#HPC #supercomputing #AI #climatescience
Image credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich

Quantum Computer Built On Server Racks Paves the Way To Bigger Machines - An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A Canadian startup... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/055235/quantum-computer-built-on-server-racks-paves-the-way-to-bigger-machines?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #supercomputing

Okay, I'm going to pin this one because it's probably the most important aspect of what I work for.

If you're a #graduate student in #Canada

You have access to all of the academic supercomputers and cloud computing facilities that are part of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada FOR FREE

Not sure how to use a supercomputer? We also do a lot of training!

There's no catch! I promise, there's no catch. Think of it like you think of your local library. You don't wonder why they let you in and read whatever you want for free, right?

Students need to make sure that their PI has created an account first, because they'll have to be approved as a member of a lab.

Run, don't walk to https://ccdb.alliancecan.ca/security/login and get started!

If you're a #faculty member in #Canada

Whatever the role, #lecturer, #researcher #researchAssociate it's the same thing for you! Just get your account before your students and staff. Same link.

If you're an academic research collaborator outside of #Canada

You can also use the resources for free if you get sponsored by a Canadian researcher that already has an account. Again, for free. As long as you use it for a project you both collaborate on, you're welcome!

Next week, we'll go through the yearly process of allocating resources to our power users. That process is basically like a grant application and that might also be interesting to some of you. I'll post about it when I'm in the thick of it, I guess!

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is now accepting applications for GCS large-scale projects covering the period from Mai 1, 2025, to April 30, 2026.

Interested researchers at German universities and publicly funded German research institutions can apply to gain access to GCS’ leading HPC systems, including SuperMUC-NG at the LRZ.

Read more: https://www.gauss-centre.eu/news/gcs-call-2025-1-for-large-scale-projects-now-open-call-33

#GCS @fzj_jsc #HLRS #HPC #HPC4Germany #Supercomputing

Forschungsgruppen und Unternehmen aufgepasst: Bewerbt euch mit eurem Modell zu generativer #KI noch bis zum 17. März und gewinnt #Rechenzeit am ersten europäischen #Exascale-#Supercomputer #JUPITER, der im Mai 2025 startet.

Der #Wettbewerb #Gauss-AI-Compute Competition wird vom Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (#GCS) und dem @fzj_jsc durchgeführt.

https://bmbf.de/gauss-ai-compute

Controversial UK #HPC thought …

Manchester & Edinburgh used to be the top two academic #supercomputing centres in the UK.

“Top” in terms of scale, international recognition, etc.

Then it became Edinburgh and Hartree.

With the recent #AI agenda, has the top two now become Bristol and Cambridge?