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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing - just 1.25 kilometres - what a fantastic achievement 👏

Torsten Hoefler 🇨🇭 @thoefler.bsky.social · 10d

Cool and impactful project led by the MPI-M: coupled simulation of the full Earth system in 1.25km resolution. Unprecedented complexity, fidelity, and performance at 82.5 simulated days per day. Accelerated by DaCe on GH200 - next generation #HPC for #climate science is here!

Global climate simulations achieve 1.25 km resolution—team nominated for Climate Gordon Bell Prize | CSCS

For the first time, scientists have run global coupled climate simulations at a resolution of just 1.25 kilometres. Using CSCS’s “Alps” supercomputer, the team including researchers from ETH Zürich…

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 11d

EuroMPI Conference @eurompiconf.bsky.social · 12d

It's just two more days until EuroMPI/USA 2025.

This week #EuroMPI is co-located with #IWOMP and the #MPIforum in Charlotte, NC, USA.

Looking forward to amazing keynotes, checkout the program:
👉 eurompi.org/program

#HPC #AI #MPI

EuroMPI/USA 2025, Charlotte, NC, USA, 1-3 October 2025, https://eurompi.org

Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 11d

What are you doing this week? I am spending my afternoons and nights as a remote participant at #MPIforum and #EuroMPI + #IWOMP

#HPC #MPI

EuroMPI Conference @eurompiconf.bsky.social · 12d

The 1st joint keynote for EuroMPI/USA 2025 & IWOMP 2025 will be given by

Amanda Randles @profamandarandles.bsky.social
HPC in Health: Scaling Vascular Digital Twins from Millions of Heartbeats to Petabytes of Data

Registration is still open & remote participation is free of charge.

#HPC #AI #MPI

EuroMPI Conference @eurompiconf.bsky.social · 12d

It's just two more days until EuroMPI/USA 2025.

This week #EuroMPI is co-located with #IWOMP and the #MPIforum in Charlotte, NC, USA.

Looking forward to amazing keynotes, checkout the program:
👉 eurompi.org/program

#HPC #AI #MPI

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EVITA - EuroHPC Virtual Training Academy @evitahpc.bsky.social · 16d

EVITA presented at the All-Hands in Tallinn! 🚀 We shared our mission, training framework, and ideas for collaboration with NCCs, sparking great discussions. Thanks to all for the active exchange — excited to build on this together!

#EuroHPC #EVITA #EuroCC #CASTIEL #HPC #Training #Collaboration

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 18d

Striving for peak performance? Need some help?
🎓 The first autumn training events are online - ASC-Linux, ASC-Intro, C++, CUDA, DL, MPI, and more to come
🎓 Students at Austrian universities can earn ECTS

asc.ac.at/training/
events.asc.ac.at/category/4/

📸 Peak performance - greatings from Madeira

Peak performance - greatings from Madeira

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 21d

Actually that‘s why we all build some tiny 4-8 node RPi clusters - to display them at events, to get people interested, to explain concepts. One can even learn something when designing and building these RPi clusters & have lots of fun.

Lego clusters seem to get en vogue too, we‘ll have one soon.

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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 26d

Great to see this article! We’re also happy to have @claudiablaas.bsky.social supporting us with teaching, running climate model simulations on an HPC system, and guiding us through ASC. Her involvement is certainly an inspiring example for our female students.

TU Wien @tuwien.at · 27d

„Sei mutig, glaube an dein Potenzial, bleib neugierig“: Das rät Claudia Blaas-Schenner allen jungen Kolleginnen, die eine Karriere im High-Performance Computing (HPC) anstreben.
Zum Interview im Blog von @eurocc-austria.at: eurocc-austria.at/blog/sei-mut...

„Sei mutig, glaube an dein Potenzial, bleib neugierig“

"Supercomputing ist nur etwas für Männer": Der Mythos hält sich hartnäckig. Physikerin und HPC-Pionierin Claudia Blaas-Schenner ist eine jener Frauen, die dieses Märchen ohne viel Getöse auflöst. Waru...

eurocc-austria.at

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 26d

I recently gave an interview how the initiative Women in HPC drives change.

#HPC #WHPC

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 26d

I feel flattered 😊
Thanks to Anna, Bettina, Iiulia and team for running this awareness campaign.

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 27d

“Be bold, believe in your potential, stay curious.” #HPC expert Claudia Blaas-Schenner on why #diversity is essential for #supercomputing – and how the initiative Women in HPC drives change. Read more: eurocc-austria.at/en/blog/be-b...

@claudiablaas.bsky.social @womeninhpc.org
#WomenInTech

“Be bold, believe in your potential, stay curious”

"Supercomputing is just for men" is a common myth. Physicist and HPC pioneer Claudia Blaas-Schenner is one of the women quietly disproving it – without fuss. In this interview, she explains why and ho...

eurocc-austria.at

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 28d

www.osti.gov/biblio/2588210

dch3njw.bsky.social @dch3njw.bsky.social · 29d

We are pleased to announce that our report on for quantum computing for science is out www.osti.gov/biblio/2588210

It is an analysis of technology roadmaps from vendors, evaluating how they align with requirements for solving scientific problems of relevance to NERSC's users.

#QuantumComputing

Quantum Computing Technology Roadmaps and Capability Assessment for Scientific Computing - An analysis of use cases from the NERSC workload (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), as the high-performance computing (HPC) facility for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, recognizes the essential role of qu...

www.osti.gov

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 28d

Coming from materials science I‘m looking forward to what the future might bring.

Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · 29d

Surprised that over half of the NERSC workload stands to benefit from quantum computing, but this report explains it well. Can now see that there's more than marketing behind #HPC centers ramping up investment in quantum.

Quantum has huge potential impact in scientific domains over the next decade.

dch3njw.bsky.social @dch3njw.bsky.social · 29d

We are pleased to announce that our report on for quantum computing for science is out www.osti.gov/biblio/2588210

It is an analysis of technology roadmaps from vendors, evaluating how they align with requirements for solving scientific problems of relevance to NERSC's users.

#QuantumComputing

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · 28d

Call for early access to #QuantumComputing resources!

Open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions.
System: IBEX from #AQT
Deadline: 13 October 2025

www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...

Universität Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy · Sep 11

Die Universität Innsbruck bietet Forschenden an allen österreichischen Institutionen erstmals Zugang zu einem #quantencomputer und eröffnet damit ganz neue Möglichkeiten für die Forschung. Rechenzeit für insgesamt fünf Forschungsprojekte wurden nun […]

[Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Sep 11

This week in
✨Foundations of #LLM Mastery
✨Fine-tuning on one GPU
✨Fine-tuning on multi GPUs

Martin and Simeon rocked the floor with cute Llamas and great explanations:
🦙 LLM parallelization
how to chop up a Llama
🦙 LLM evaluation
how to take a Llama‘s measurement

When #AI meets #HPC

"Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on multi GPUs, 11 September 2025, online"

LLM parallelization
- how to chop up a Llama

"Foundations of LLM Mastery: Fine-tuning on multi GPUs, 11 September 2025, online"

LLM evaluation
- how to take a Llama‘s measurement

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sure & thanks for sharing

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · Aug 28

Looks like the course material is also all open. Good examples to show how all the pieces can fit together in practice: gitlab.tuwien.ac.at/vsc-public/t...

ASC Public / Training Materials / LLMs On Supercomputers · GitLab

TUgitLab

gitlab.tuwien.ac.at

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s #RAG time in our course series
✨Foundations of #LLM Mastery
✨Retrieval Augmented Generation

Today, Thomas showed how to build a RAG system from scratch and explained how to overcome the challenges and use RAG effectively 🚀

✨https://events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-rag-2025-08

When #AI meets #HPC

"Foundations of LLM Mastery: Retrieval Augmented Generation, 28 August 2025, online"
Why use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in your prompts
- expands and enhances your prompts
- delivers transparent and up-to-date answers
- reduces hallucinations
…

"Foundations of LLM Mastery: Retrieval Augmented Generation, 28 August 2025, online"
… but there are some challenges
- poor answers if your source documents are low quality
- higher latency and more compute required
- complex system architecture

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

"Foundations of LLM Mastery: Prompt Engineering Essentials, 25 August 2025, online"
- These 5 principled will save you hours
- Practical tips to get better results with less trial and error

"Foundations of LLM Mastery: Prompt Engineering Essentials, 25 August 2025, online"
1. Provide clear and specific instructions
2. Define formatting and structure
3. Provide examples
4. Break down complex tasks into steps
5. Give the model time to think

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CommPath Inc @commpath.bsky.social · Aug 15

⚡ The Cray-1 (1976) was the fastest computer in the world: 80 MHz, over 5 tons, and shaped like a futuristic lounge chair.

Today, you carry more power in your pocket.
#FunFactFriday #TechHistory #CommPath #ThenVsNow #HPC

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Aug 8

LIGSS-2025 youtube video:

Leh Indian Glaciology Summer School 2025

YouTube video by human

www.youtube.com

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Aug 8

In June we supported the inaugural Leh Indian Glaciology Summer School (LIGSS-2025) in Ladakh, India with computing resources.

Blog post:
asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...

#HPC #ASC #ASCtraining

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Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) @asc.ac.at · Jul 18

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

Representatives of participating institutions at the kick-off meeting of the EVITA project in Barcelona, July 2025.

Claudia Blaas-Schenner (member of ASC / TU Wien) presenting at the kick-off meeting of the EVITA project

Claudia Blaas-Schenner and Siegfried Höfinger (ASC / TU Wien) at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood.com · Jul 11

In the few days I have between jobs, I wanted to share an unvarnished perspective on what I've learned after spending three years working on supercomputing in the cloud. It's hastily written and lightly edited, but I hope others find it interesting: blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/07/less...

#HPC

Lessons learned from three years in cloud supercomputing

I recently decided to leave Microsoft after having spent just over three years there, first as a storage product manager, then as a compute ...

blog.glennklockwood.com

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks for sharing this and curious about where you are heading to - hope you‘ll still stay in the #HPC community. Wherever you are going next, they are lucky!

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Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social · Jul 10

The bootcamps are over for now, but we'll continue our collaboration with #NVIDIA and #OpenACC_org for the AI Hackathon - for teams of 3+ & AI project - application deadline is 5 August

Blog: www.openhackathons.org/s/article/Bo...

AI Hackathon: events.asc.ac.at/e/AI-hackath...

When #AI meets #HPC

EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 10

Bootcamp season is a wrap! Over 600 joined to build hands-on skills in AI & HPC across Europe. Full story here: eurocc-austria.at/en/news/boos...

Next up: the EuroCC AI Hackathon, 14–23 Oct 2025. Apply by 5 Aug: www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/...

#AI #EuroCC #AIHackathon #HPC #GPUProgramming

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