Happy Holidays to our community ✨ Thanks for the collaboration, inspiration, and shared energy this year. Wishing you a restful break and a great start to the new year 🎄

Rewind 2025 ⏪ What a year for EuroCC Belgium! 🎉 Events, trainings & user days with HPC & Quantum enthusiasts, inspiring conferences across Europe, 12 user stories, 6 interviews, a podcast, and 1300+ followers. Thanks to our amazing partners & team! 🚀

🗓️ Save the date! Feb. 23–27: @hlrs-hpc.bsky.social offers an intro course on numerical methods for CFD in high-performance computing. Topics include compressible & incompressible flows, high-order methods, Lattice Boltzmann, and parallelization efficiency. Registration: www.hlrs.de/training/202...

A great wrap-up to the VSC / LUMI User Day in Brussels! Inspiring talks, lively discussions and a strong HPC community. Thanks to all speakers, organisers and participants 👏 @vschpc.bsky.social @lumi-supercomputer.eu #CECI

D-Day for the @vschpc.bsky.social / #LUMI User Day in Brussels 🧇 A full day of #HPC with keynotes, lightning talks, parallel sessions and awards. We look forward to engaging in great discussions with users, partners, and the community! @lumi-supercomputer.eu #VSC #HPC

Are you submitting a poster for #ISC26? If not & funding might be an issue, we have good news! 🎉 #WomenInHPC will offer 2 travel fellowships to support attendance at ISC. A great opportunity to connect & learn 💼✨ More info: bit.ly/4qfY5qM 🗓️Deadline 22/01/2026 #WHPC #HPC #Research #PosterSession

Looking for a quick intro to @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social’s key software? Join tomorrow’s webinar organised by EuroCC Denmark and DTU, where the BioExcel CoE will present its open-source tools for biomolecular research & drug discovery. Register now: shorturl.at/k1n6n #HPC #DrugModelling #LifeScience

Great discussions at KVCV’s first symposium on computational chemistry in Brussels, with support from @chemistryeurope.bsky.social and @vschpc.bsky.social . At @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social we discussed how AI/ML and HPC lead innovation in reaction analysis, drug discovery, cancer research & more!

New @vschpc.bsky.social success story! 🧬 Ancient DNA from the Sint-Truiden cemetery reveals 1,000 years of ancestry and community life. Thanks to VSC #supercomputing, researchers have uncovered insights that would have been impossible to achieve otherwise. 🎥 Video & full 📘 Showcase 👇

What a day last week in Utrecht! 🇳🇱 Big thanks to #EuroCC NL & @itcooperativesurf.bsky.social for bringing the HPC community together — inspiring talks, hands-on sessions, and great conversations across borders. Heading home energised and ready for our own VSC/LUMI User Day later this month!

🌎Discover exciting training opportunities 🧑‍🏫📈, success stories 📜, and expert connections 👋, as well as valuable resources ⚡in the new EuroHPC Portal. 👀Visit here 👉🔗 hpc-portal.eu #EuroCC #EU #HPC

Advanced Computing User Day in Utrecht 🇳🇱 Great keynote by Dr. Maria Girone #CERN and inspiring discussions - collaboration across NCCs is what drives HPC forward! 💪 Looking forward to the rest of the sessions today. @itcooperativesurf.bsky.social #EuroCC #HPC #SURF #Collaboration

🚀 #FFplus Open Call 2 – T2 is open! For #EU SMEs/start-ups in generative #AI & #HPC. Up to €300k per proposal (consortia 1–5 partners). Apply by 25 February 2026, 17:00 (or once 250 proposals have been submitted). Join a webinar on 11/12 or 15/12 to learn more! More info 👉 shorturl.at/fpGDR

Accelerate your python programs with GPUs! In the upcoming VSC training by @vschpc.bsky.social, you will understand how you can exploit the parallelisation opportunities of running on GPUs! 🗓️ Dec. 11 - 9AM to 1PM 🌐 Hybrid: ICTS KU Leuven/Online ✅ Info&Registration: www.vscentrum.be/events/pytho...

🎓 Curious about data management on HPC? Join the CÉCI training to learn best practices and where/how to store data during & after your runs using netCDF/HDF5—key for efficiency and data preservation. 🗓️ On-site @ UCLouvain, Dec 10, 9:30 AM ➡️ Info & registration: indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/179/

🎉 Exciting news! Congratulations to Vrije Universiteit Brussel and @vschpc.bsky.social on the inauguration of their Tier-1 #supercomputer, Sofia, symbolising wisdom and enlightenment. Here’s to the groundbreaking discoveries and innovations that will emerge! 🥂 💡 #Research #Innovation #VUB #VSC

☝️ Don't forget to register for our #webinar on 2 December at 15:00 CET Alessandra Villa will take you through "The GROMACS tutorial suite: from basic to advanced applications" Register here: bioexcel.eu/4m5m #moleculardynamics

Next week, explore with #CÉCI how to use efficiently scripting language (Python and Julia) in the context of HPC while taking into account constraint like memory and performance! 🗓️ Dec 4, 2025, 9:30/16:00 - Louvain-La-Neuve Registration: indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/178/

In this episode of the Supercomputing in Europe Podcast, experts from Latvia’s HPC Competence Centre share practical steps for SMEs and researchers to start using HPC. 🎧 Listen now: hpc-portal.eu/news/podcast #HPC #EuroCC4SEE #ENCCS

Breaking news! ICON achieved the first-ever full Earth system simulation at 1 km resolution, and was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. Exciting collaboration between @ethz.ch, DKRZ, NVIDIA, @uni-hamburg.de, @fz-juelich.de and @cscsch.bsky.social, on the JUPITER exascale system!

Upcoming webinar on Friday! In the framework of the Epicure project @epicurehpc.bsky.social, our colleague Geert Jan Bex @gjbex.bsky.social will provide key insight into the use of the Python package "Numba" to offload your workload to GPUs. Don't miss out this opportunity!

𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗣𝗨𝘀, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲? Learn how to use Numba and the solutions to overcome potential performance issues. 🗓️ Date: November 28, 2025 | 2:00 pm (WET) 🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/gnGvp #EPICURE #Python #Webinar #Numba @vschpc.bsky.social

📅 On 17 Dec 2025, the 3rd LUMI-BE User Day takes place in Brussels, together with the @vschpc.bsky.social Users Day. Join the LUMI-BE session to hear user experiences and insights from LUMI users. Program 👉 www.enccb.be/LUMIBE2025 #LUMI #UserDay #HPC #AI #Supercomputing #Research #europe

Upcoming event! The KVCV will organise on December 12th in Brussels the 1st Symposium on Computation Chemistry in Flanders. A great opportunity to spend an afternoon discussing about cutting-edge computational approaches with fellow researchers! Register here: tickets.kvcv.be/kvcv/compche...

#JUPITER is now officially Europe’s first Exascale supercomputer and ranked 4th on the new #Top500 list at #SC25! Congratulations 🎉🎊🚀🇪🇺 It also forms the core of the JUPITER #AIFactory, to which Belgium’s #BE-AIFA, coordinated by #imec, will be connected to boost Europe’s AI ecosystem. #AI #SC25

Registrations are open for the @vschpc.bsky.social User Day 2025 in Brussels! A day with inspiring talks, lightning talks 💡, and the unique opportunity to meet fellow VSC HPC users 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️. Register now 👉 www.vscentrum.be/ud25 #AI #HPC #Supercomputing

Eager to build and test your own software packages? @vschpc.bsky.social has you covered with an introduction to CMake to give you control over the software compilation process using simple independent configuration files! When: 20 Nov 2025, 09:00 – 12:00 Register now: shorturl.at/4xmfo

Join the Python meets HPC hackathon by EPICURE! Solve real Python+HPC challenges, optimise code & collaborate with researchers and developers 💪. 📍 KTH Stockholm 📅 Dec 10–12, 2025 Register: epicure-hpc.eu/2025/09/30/e...

💻Upcoming lecture serie by CÉCI: Going Parallel! 🔹Nov 26 – Part I: Methods, MPI → indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/176/ 🔹Nov 27 – Part II: OpenMP, Slurm → indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/175/ 🔹Dec 3 – Part III: GPU programming → indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/177/ Let's boost your parallel computing skills! 🚀

@eurocc-belgium.bsky.social interviewed ALSTOM's Dir of Innovation & Excellence Pierre Meunier. Read the full interview & discover how #digitalsimulation & #HPC are driving #innovation & shaping the future of rail mobility 👇 www.enccb.be/ALSTOM #RailMobility #ALSTOM #Research #Technology #Cenaero

🌍 Learn the Physics of Atmospheres with the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics! 📅 19–21 Nov 2025 (hybrid course) Explore atmospheric flows, boundary layer dynamics & weather modeling with experts. 🔗 registration until Wed. Nov. 12th: www.vki.ac.be/index.php/ev...

🚀 Developing ever more demanding AI models? Learn how to scale them on European supercomputers! Join the CC-FR webinar to discover MINERVA, supporting researchers and companies in bringing AI to HPC. 📅 Dec 4, 2025 • 🕑 14:00 CET • 💻 Online • Free signup: shorturl.at/SoKt3

💬 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 🚀: #Cenaero utilised #AI (UMAP + clustering) and #HPC on Lucia ⚡to optimise #Safran ’s compressor design, reducing loops from weeks to ~36 hours. Faster, smarter, and greener aeronautics. Read the full story 👉 www.enccb.be/USCompressor... #HPC #AI #Aerospace

💻 Curious where quantum is really heading? Join A Fujitsu Journey to Quantum Computing and Beyond 🌍 🗓️ Nov 19, 10:00–12:00 Hear from Fujitsu experts on Quantum, HPC & AI convergence. 🔑 Apply via Circle: bit.ly/3LKHvQz 👉 Register: bit.ly/3WHvwFR #QuantumComputing #HPC #QuantumFuture #QuantumBelgium

Mediterranean NCCs got to collaborate to organise an online HPC course on "LLM Application across Domains" next monday (10/11)! Register here: shorturl.at/cM8MX (organisation by the Greek NCC in collaboration with NCC from Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Spain and EuroCC SLING)

Boost your HPC skills! 🚀 Join the @vschpc.bsky.social online trainings next week: 🖥️ Workflows on HPC – Wed 12 Nov, 09:00–13:00 → Register www.vscentrum.be/events/workf... ⚙️ GNU Make – Thu 13 Nov, 09:00–13:00 → Register www.vscentrum.be/events/gnu-m... #HPC #Training #VSC

👻Booh! Afraid of diving into GPU programming? 😱 Fear no more: HPC institutions in Belgium have you convered! 🎃 🦇 Dec 3, 2025: Going parallel - GPU programming by CÉCI -> indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/177/ 🦇 Dec 11, 2025: Python-on-GPUs by @vschpc.bsky.social -> www.vscentrum.be/events/pytho...

Looking forward to enhance your knowledge on CFD programming? Check out the advanced course on programming in OpenFOAM with C++ organised by @cineca.bsky.social in Bologna next month! ⬇️

Between nov. 26 and 28, the @hidalgo2.bsky.social CoE will organise an ONLINE training course on building-level energy dynamics to performing city-scale energy simulations. Willing to gain with the Ktirio Urban Building framework? Register here: events.it4i.cz/event/367/

Next Wednesday at 9am, join the hybrid course on Best practices for data science on HPC supported by @vschpc.bsky.social ! For on-campus participation, please reach out to [email protected] BEFORE October 28th, 2025! Register here: www.vscentrum.be/events/best-...

Empowering women in #HPC 💪 means giving visibility to their work and voices. In this interview, WHPC co-founder Tina Črnigoj Marc shares how mentoring & networking help make #supercomputing more inclusive. Read the interview👇 #HPC #WomenInTech #DiversityInTech #EuroCC

Struggling with simulations on your laptop? ⚡Supercomputing might be your answer! Learn from Neilshan's experience with @vschpc.bsky.social (recently obtained PhD at DSI #UHasselt): #PhD #HPC 🚀

Next month, DIDEAROT - Horizon Europe will organize a workshop on the latest developments on digital methodologies for the design of composite aircraft structures and the role of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in advancing the field in Barcelona @bsc-cns.bsky.social! Register here: www.bsc.es/4Ze

Will you dare enter the lair of Fortran ? In this MOOC, you will learn where science gets its numbers and master best practices in Fortran programming! Register here: www.edx.org/learn/comput... Watch the trailer now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TbV...

Tomorrow is #ExascaleDay! 🎊🎉 The new @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social Application Support Portal helps researchers connect with experts to scale their software efficiently across EuroHPC systems ⚡💻 🔗 epicure-hpc.eu/2025/10/01/e...

We are excited to join Trefdag Vlaanderen again next week! 💡 Let's connect 🙋‍♀️ at the @vschpc.bsky.social & @eurocc-belgium.bsky.social booth on 23/10 Let's discuss how technology can help shape the government of tomorrow. Register before 20/10🔗 www.vlaanderen.be/trefdag-vlaa... #Trefdag25

📣 Belgium is among the 13 AI Factory Antennas announced by @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social 🎉! 🇧🇪✨ Looking forward to expand the existing collaboration with CÉCI/@vschpc.bsky.social to BE-AIFA & providing local & tailored guidance to Belgian actors interested in AI/HPC.🤝💡 #drivinginnovationtogether🚀

Celebrating women shaping the future of AI #AdaLovelaceDay, 👩‍🔬 Prof. V. Hoste & the LT³ team at Ghent University are teaching LLMs to speak Dutch (enabled by the @vschpc.bsky.social #HPC infrastructure) Read all about it in our latest user story 👉: www.enccb.be/MakingLLMswo... #AdaLovelaceDay#HPC#AI #LLM #NLP #UGent

🇧🇪 Belgian researchers: want hands-on HPC experience? Join CÉCI trainings at UCLouvain! 🗓️ Oct 14: File editing & code versioning 🗓️ Oct 16: Job submission & workflows 🔗 indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/166 🔗 indico.cism.ucl.ac.be/event/167

☕ HPC Café @NHR@FAU — Oct 14, 2025 Topic: Assessing job efficiency with ClusterCockpit Learn how to monitor your HPC jobs in real time! Hybrid event, free coffee & cake 🍰 👉 hpc.fau.de/2025/10/08/m... #training #HPC #sysadmin