160 attendees from 10 countries, 56 talks, 20 posters & lightning talks, and dozens of important conversations between users and providers on #HPC, #AI, #QuantumComputing, latest research, and technology trends - this was #ASHPC26. See the recap here: asc.ac.at/research/con...

Community bike ride to a supercomputer 🚴‍♂️ Join us on 21 April in Vienna as we ride from Karlsplatz to Science Center Arsenal and back, chatting about science and innovation, and visiting eMOTION lab and ASC supercomputers! Info & registration: www.tuwien.at/futurefit/cy... @tuwien.at

It's that time of the year again - #ASHPC26 has started! Austrian-Slovenian #HPC meeting 2026 has gathered 150+ participants in Vienna for exchange on all things #supercomputing, and we couldn't be happier to reconnect with the community!

The program for #ASHPC26 is online! ashpc.eu/event/27/att... Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 takes place on 7-10 April. Looking forward to seeing the #HPC community come together again - this time in Vienna, Austria.

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗦𝗖 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 Online course on 23 March 2026 Discover how to harness Austria’s most powerful supercomputers! This course guides you from the first steps to efficiently running software using a queuing system. Register here events.asc.ac.at/e/ASC-Intro-... #HPC

Yesterday‘s course „Hands-on Explainable AI (XAI): From Data Understanding to Model Interpretation“ was a blast. A big applause to our lecturer Anahid Wachsenegger from AIT who did a great job in guiding 115 participants through the hands-on labs on the GPUs on VSC-5. #AI:AT @asc.ac.at

The numbers for 2025 are in and we’re happy to share a few highlights from this past year at Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC): infrastructure updates, HPC usage, training and collaborations 👉 asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...

Share your expertize in supercomputing at #ASHPC26! Call for abstracts extended until 𝟮𝟮 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 ashpc.eu/event/27/abs... @tuwien.at @eurocc-austria.at @eurocc.bsky.social #HPC #supercomputing #conference

Deadline approaching 📢 Submit your abstracts for Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting #ASHPC26 until 15 February: ashpc.eu/event/27/abs... #HPC #Supercomputing

It's been a great week at HLRS Stuttgart with the joint course Hybrid Programming in #HPC - MPI+X 💻

Looking for a #job in High-Performance Computing? Our friends at University of Innsbruck are looking for a 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 (𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲/𝗣𝗵𝗗) – 𝗛𝗣𝗖 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 Applications open until 15 February: lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri... #hpc #highperformancecomputing #supercomputing

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for #ASHPC26 is open! Share your work related to #supercomputing with the community: • applications of #HPC • research done on HPC clusters • systems engineering Submissions are due before 15 Feb. More info ➡️ ashpc.eu/event/27/abs... ASHPC26 takes place 7-10 April in📍Vienna

For graduate students and postdoctoral scholars working in #HPC, computational science and data-driven research. Application for the 16th International High Performance Computing Summer School is open 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟯𝟭 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆: ss26.ihpcss.org #HPCCS26 will take place on 12-17 July in Perth, Australia 🇦🇺

𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗣𝗖 – 𝗠𝗣𝗜+𝗫 Join us on 10-12 February to learn how to use #HPC systems efficiently - basic command of MPI & OpenMP is a must. 📍Stuttgart & online ➡️ www.hlrs.de/training/202... @sc-in-de.bsky.social @hlrs-hpc.bsky.social @eurocc-austria.at

Registration for Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting #ASHPC26 is open. Be the first to secure your spot with an early bird fee! ASHPC26 in 📍 Vienna, Austria Public part on 🗓️ 8-10 April 2026 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼, 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: ashpc.eu/event/27/

Today we had very special guests at #ASC - a group of students doing climate modelling with @blazgaspa.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at got to see the hardware they were using during the past semester 🌱🌍🌎🌱 @asc.ac.at @eurocc-austria.at

Back in October we co-organized an #AI #Hackathon – an intensive, multi-day training event with ten participating teams from nine countries, twenty mentors and assistants, and access to five #HPC systems. See the participants' project highlights in our recap: asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for #ASHPC26 is open! Share your work related to #supercomputing with the community: • applications of #HPC • research done on HPC clusters • systems engineering • other topic related to HPC More info & submission: ashpc.eu/event/27/abs...

⚡Lightning is usually triggered inside a cloud and strikes downward, but there is a lesser-known opposite phenomenon. At the University of Innsbruck, Isabell Stucke is one of a few researchers worldwide investigating how it works – with #HPC an #AI ➡️ asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne... @eurocc-austria.at

Austria’s new flagship #supercomputer #MUSICA has enabled the training of a Large Language Model that analyzes, groups, and labels all research fields at TU Wien. Read more about the project: asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne... #AI #LLM #research @tuwien.at @eurocc-austria.at

Debug parallel code with clarity and speed: Join our free #LinaroForge training on 30 Oct and learn to master DDT, MAP & more – with access to VSC-5 and expert guidance. Register by 28 Oct: events.asc.ac.at/event/218/ #HPC #ParallelProgramming

@claudiablaas.bsky.social is not only head of #HPC training at ASC but also in many European projects. In EVITA, Claudia develops a Competence & Qualification Framework that will standardize HPC skills & qualifications across Europe 💪 @evitahpc.bsky.social

WEBINAR 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗔𝗜 (in German) tomorrow! #AIFactory Austria AI:AT experts offer in-depth insights into the ethical principles and core requirements of Trustworthy #AI. 🗓️ 14 October 2025 ➡️ Register now: events.asc.ac.at/e/AI-trustwo...

Join our #HPC & #AI training events in October! 👩‍💻 👨‍💻 • C++ software design (registration closes on 9 Oct) • Webinars on #TrustworthyAI w/ #AIFActoryAustria • Intro to working on the ASC clusters • CUDA 4 dummies • #MATLAB: AI workflows for academia & industry events.asc.ac.at/category/4/

Heard about #AIFactoryAustria AI:AT? We're working closely with the new national #AI hub & excited to invite you to its first #webinar dedicated to Trustworthy AI. If you're interested in the topic, join tomorrow, 7 Oc 2025. Register here: events.asc.ac.at/e/AI-trustwo... (Webinar is in German)

#HPC is a promising tool to revolutionize healthcare - with data, simulations, digital twins, and #supercomputing power. This year's EuroMPI Conference started with an amazing joint keynote by Amanda Randles (Duke University) @profamandarandles.bsky.social @eurompiconf.bsky.social

Claudia Blaas-Schenner - Head of Training at ASC & a long-time #HPC expert shared in an interview with @eurocc-austria.at why diversity matters in #supercomputing – and how the initiative 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗣𝗖 supports the gender balance eurocc-austria.at/en/blog/be-b... @claudiablaas.bsky.social

Today at the ACO-TEC conference at @tuwien.at, #MathWorks presented a story of a successful collaboration with ASC in helping researchers accelerate simulations with #MATLAB. Read more about how our joint workshop helped achieve progress in #quantum many-body #research asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...

University of Innsbruck has opened Austria’s first nationwide call for early access to #QuantumComputing resources! Application open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions. System: IBEX from AQT Deadline: 13 October 2025 Learn more: www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...

The #ASC training is back with the summer edition of our course series ✨Foundations of LLM Mastery Yesterday, Simeon talked about ✨Prompt Engineering Essentials ✨ events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-prompt... When #AI meets #HPC @asc.ac.at @eurocc-austria.at #AI:AT #LLM

80% of glaciers in the Himalayas may melt away by 2100. With #hpc playing a vital role in glaciological & #climate #research, we're happy to have supported Leh Indian Glaciology Summer School 2025 that helped train the next generation of researchers in India. More ➡️ asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...

Registration deadline for #AI #Hackathon has been extended to August, 19! • For teams of 3+ • Bring your open-source licensed project • Get access to A100, H100, GH200, DGX • Get personalized support from mentors

Between May-July 2025, we co-organized four #HPC & #AI bootcamps. With 600+ participants and a successful collaboration in the pan-European network, this training season set a new attendance record. Read the recap: asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...

Where does the Moon’s exosphere come from? A TU Wien study using real lunar rock reveals that the erosive effect of solar wind ions on the Moon has been vastly overestimated. Large-scale 3D computer simulations were conducted on the ASC infrastructure. www.tuwien.at/en/tu-wien/n... @tuwien.at

Hurry up: registration for the #AI #Hackathon closes on 5 August! • Open to teams of 3+ • For those based in the EU & EuroCC countries • Bring your open-source licensed project • Get access to A100, H100, GH200, DGX • Get personalised support from mentors events.asc.ac.at/e/AI-hackath...

Our online #LLM training series is back! Join the 3,5-hour intensive courses to master essentials such as #PromtEngineering #RAG and fine-tuning - powered by #HPC. See more & apply: events.asc.ac.at/category/4/ Organized with @eurocc-austria.at

Earlier this month we attended the kick-off meeting of the EVITA project aimed to strengthen #HPC training landscape in Europe. Read about the launch and the goals we're working toward: asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne... @evitahpc.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social @tuwien.at

On Friday we got delivery of 2200 disks for the new #supercomputer #MUSICA — the IBM Storage Scale System 6000 (formerly GPFS), with a 35PB of usable capacity. Spread across 4 racks, the storage system will serve the Vienna part of MUSICA & VSC-5. The team is already busy putting it all together 💪

📢 WE HAVE A NEW NAME We are excited to share that VSC has undergone a slight rebranding and will now operate under a new name: 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗔𝗦𝗖). The name was chosen to reflect the nationwide scope of the consortium - read the official statement here ➡️ asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...

At the end of every semester, we take the attendees of the VSC School training program to see the #HPC infrastructure they've been using remotely. As always, it was pleasure to spend some time with the next generation of HPC users!

Join the first European NVIDIA #AI Hackathon to accelerate, optimize, and scale real-world projects leveraging the latest #HPC technologies! Details & registration: events.asc.ac.at/event/195/ Registration deadline: 5 August #NVIDIA #hackathon #coding

Today, 24 June, representatives of #AI Factory Austria (AI:AT) are officially introducing the new national AIF hub and its goals - join the livestream at 09:30 (CEST) ➡️ events.streaming.at/ait-20250624 *Presentations will be given in German

Our #GPU bootcamps reached the next level – Multi-GPU 🚀 Last week we had 120 participants in Zoom, on Slack, and on the GPUs of #Athena (Cyfronet) – it’s great to see so much interest in #HPC Multi-GPU Programming Bootcamp events.vsc.ac.at/e/Multi-GPU-... 🧵

Is training scalable? With the right partners and a little parallelization definitely yes! A while ago we conducted a quite large ✨AI4science✨ boocamp with 210 participants – 2 very intense half days in Zoom, on Slack, and on the GPUs of 3 HPC systems – absolutely amazing 💯 When #AI meets #HPC 🧵

The booklet of abstracts from #ASHPC25 is online! Find the short recap of the conference with links to the slides & gallery (for registered participants) and the booklet (with public access) here: vsc.ac.at/research/con...

#EESSI is being adopted as the main central software stack on MUSICA, the Multi-Site Computer Austria. ➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2025/06/13/e... @eessi.bsky.social

Happy to be part of the EVITA project! More about the role of the VSC team based at TU Wien vsc.ac.at/news/2025/ne... @evitahpc.bsky.social @tuwien.at

The latest #top500 is out! • El Capitan remains the most powerful system in the world • JUPITER is now Europe’s fastest #supercomputer • Its JEDI module tops the Green500 as the most energy-efficient • LUMI & LEONARDO continue to lead in the global top 10 image by @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social

Today the #MPI_Forum ratified the new MPI-5.0 – now with ABI included 🚀 Join us at #ISC25 for the MPI BoF! 🗓️ June 12 | 🕑 14:15–15:15 | 📍Hall G1, 2nd floor #MPI #HPC #AI

Profiling AI #Software Bootcamp Join us on July 10 to learn how to profile and optimize #AI workloads using #NVIDIA Nsight Systems. Dive into multi #GPU architectures, identify performance bottlenecks, and boost scalability across CPUs and GPUs. Apply by❗June 16 events.vsc.ac.at/e/AIprofilin...