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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · 27d

The #HPC group of the University of Basel welcomes all students joining Foundations of Distributed Systems course (FDS) and Reproducibility and Performance of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies seminar (RePeT) in this semester!

We wish you a good semester start! 🚀

@cflorina.bsky.social
@unibas.ch

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 29d

@jonashmk.bsky.social, Ali Mohammed, Ahmed Eleliemy, @guilloteauq.bsky.social, Reto Krummenacher
@dmi-hpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to share our new IEEE Access paper: A Comparative Study of #OpenMP #Scheduling #Algorithm #Selection Strategies

We show how combining expert-based & reinforcement learning improves #HPC scheduling, cutting overheads in apps (SPHYNX, STREAM Tri), even beating “Oracle”.

tinyurl.com/ExpRLOMP

A Comparative Study of OpenMP Scheduling Algorithm Selection Strategies

Scientific and data science applications are becoming more complex, with increasingly demanding computational and memory requirements during execution. Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems ...

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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · Sep 3

The next generation of open LLMs should be inclusive, compliant, and multilingual by design. That’s why we @icepfl.bsky.social @ethz.ch @cscsch.bsky.social ) built Apertus.

EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · Sep 2

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.

Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Aug 1

Big congratulations Dr. Thomas Jakobsche on defending your dissertation: “Improving Transparency & Performance of HPC Systems through MODA"! 👏🎓 A great achievement in #HPC #systemsmonitoring, #observability #dataanalytics. @martinschulz.bsky.social
@dmi-hpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · Jul 29

@cflorina.bsky.social @martinschulzhpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch

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Verónica MV (she/ella) @verolero86.bsky.social · Jun 18

Closing #PASC2025 a great panel discussion on Supercomputing for Sustainable Development (SD) focused on United Nations' 17 SD goals featuring Sally Ellingson, @cflorina.bsky.social, James Hetherington, and Hindumathi Palanisamy #HPC #AI

Image of closing panel at PASC 2025 with four panelists

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excited for our MS5A Breaking #HPC Silos for #Sustainable Development at #PASC25 today Jun 18, 9–11 am, Room 5.0A52.

Co-organized w/ M-C. Sawley, M. Girone, M.-G. Giuffreda & me.

Speakers: Asal Mehrabi, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Ewa Deelman & Ana Klimovic.

#IDEAS4HPC #Sustainability #PASC25

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great turnout at our MS4F #ML Support for the Lifetime of Software minisymposium at #PASC25, co-organized with H. Menon & K. Parasyris!

Thanks O. Simsek, E. Vatai, T. Islam & P. Delgado for excellent talks, and the audience for great Qs.

Looking forward to ML4SW @ #PASC26!

#HPC #AI #ScientificSw

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Jun 16

It sounds doable, right? Why haven’t we done this already?

Thanks @mggiuffreda.bsky.social for the post.

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Joana Pereira @joanampereira.bsky.social · Jun 16

If you are at PASC25 this year, go listen to Reto talk about his master thesis work on rescaling GCsnap2. It was awesome to have Reto with us last year and collaborate so close with the @cflorina.bsky.social and @dmi-hpc.bsky.social to make our tool even more useful!

HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎤 Excited to present our paper "Scalable Genomic Context Analysis with GCsnap2 on HPC Clusters" today at PASC25.
📍Room 6.0D13, FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch
📅 17:00, June 16, 2025
📄 Check out the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.02195

@joanampereira.bsky.social
@cflorina.bsky.social
@dmi.unibas.ch

An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment

High Performance Computing (HPC) systems rely on fixed user-provided estimates of job time limits. These estimates are often inaccurate, resulting in inefficient resource use and the loss of unsaved w...

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Jun 16

#PASC25 kicks off today in Brugg-Windisch!
Excited to speak at the MS1G minisymposium (Room 5.2D11) at 11:50 on “Performance & Portability for Sustainable Simulations” with #SPHEXA. Let's discuss #HPC, #portability #sustainability in #ScientificComputing.
#UniBasel

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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · May 28

DMI-HPC is ready for FANTASY Basel and showcase parallelism with μ-Cluster!

📍Find us at Booth number 307 in Hall 1.2, Messe Basel
📅 May 29-31, 2025
🤝 Meet students from @dmi.unibas.ch, experience live demos, and dive into the world of #ComputerScience

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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · May 13

We're excited to share our paper on "An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment", accepted at the 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2025. A preprint is available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.05927
#HPC @cflorina.bsky.social

An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment

High Performance Computing (HPC) systems rely on fixed user-provided estimates of job time limits. These estimates are often inaccurate, resulting in inefficient resource use and the loss of unsaved w...

arxiv.org

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HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · May 13

🚀 Excited to share that our paper "Scalable Genomic Context Analysis with GCsnap2 on HPC Clusters" has been accepted at PASC25: pasc25.pasc-conference.org!
📄 Check out the preprint on arXiv: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

@joanampereira.bsky.social @cflorina.bsky.social
@dmi.unibas.ch

The PASC 2025 Conference

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).

pasc25.pasc-conference.org

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Mar 17

Great day at #SKAO Council Swiss Science Day in Zurich! Honored to present SPH-EXA entire team’s work with Lucio Mayer & Ruben Cabezon, showcasing advances in #HPC, #SPHEXA, & #EuroHPC for astrophysical simulations. Thanks #SKACH for an inspiring event!

#Astrophysics #Cosmology #HPC #Science

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Mar 4

A very motivated high school pupil joined our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social team for a few short weeks. Under Reto Krummenacher's supervision, he thrived and used #parallelprogramming and #hpc and to gain #performance! Congratulations Oleh! Thanks Reto! 👏

HPC Group @ Uni Basel @dmi-hpc.bsky.social · Mar 4

Gymnasium #Bäumlihof pupil Oleh Chekhovych explored how #Python can speed up the Mandelbrot set computations using #parallelcomputing with #PyOMP during his Profilwochen conducted in our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social.
Great work, Oleh!
#HPC #Coding #STEM

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 23

Thank you @NicolásErdödy for the invitation to #MulticoreWorld in NZ!
Your dedication to bring together the NZ #HPC, #AI & #DataScience communities with the world is inspiring. You deserve recognition for your meaningful work—like Listen2theLand.
Thanks for the hospitality!
See you later/Mā te wā!

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 23

Grazing sheep, #BlueSky @bsky.app (pun intended), #Akaroa beach and harbor…

Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 23

Mount Cook (Southern Alps), Tasman glacier lake … stunning 🤩

Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 23

Did you know? 🇳🇿 New Zealand is 2/3 the size of France but has about half the population of Switzerland!

It’s home to ~200 glaciers, 5x more sheep than people, and stunning landscapes like #Akaroa an old volcanic crater turned harbor.

Absolutely mesmerizing.

#NewZealand #Nature #Nature

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 23

NZ did not disappoint in amazing sky views and inspiring outdoor art.

Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 23

#Sumner beach, #TaylorsMistake and #Lyttelton harbor just outside of #Christchurch.

Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 23

First time in New Zealand 🇳🇿—what an incredible experience! A land of breathtaking beauty, conserved nature, and a rich culture.

From the majestic Southern Alps to turquoise lakes, volcanic harbors, and the tiniest (and rarest) Hector’s dolphins, NZ is truly unique.

#NewZealand #Travel #Discovery

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Florina Ciorba @cflorina.bsky.social · Feb 22