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Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC)
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Formerly known as Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC)
https://asc.ac.at

• Most powerful supercomputers in Austria
• Research, education, user support
• HPC & AI training: https://events.asc.ac.at
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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/
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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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 🌱🌍🌎🌱

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A group of students in front of VSC-5.
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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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...
December 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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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...
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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⚡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...

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December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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@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 💪
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evitahpc.bsky.social EVITA - EuroHPC Virtual Training Academy @evitahpc.bsky.social · Oct 14
Meet our EVITA Leadership – #3: Dr. Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social from TU Wien.

With 30+ years in HPC and a passion for teaching, Claudia leads EVITA’s Competence & Qualification Framework, shaping Europe’s HPC skills.

Mountain hiker, cat lover, and photography enthusiast!
October 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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...
October 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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/
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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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)
October 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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#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

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eurompiconf.bsky.social EuroMPI Conference @eurompiconf.bsky.social · Oct 1
HPC in Health - keynote by Amanda Randles

Healthcare today is reactive. We treat crises after they happen. Digital twins make it proactive - preventing them.

In the future, we won't be asking if you HAVE a digital twin. We'll ask HOW your digital twin helped keep you healthy.

#HPC
EuroMPI/USA 2025, opening keynote by Amanda Randle: HPC in Health: Scaling Vascular Digital Twins from Millions of Heartbeats to Petabytes of Data EuroMPI/USA 2025, opening keynote by Amanda Randle: HPC in Health: Scaling Vascular Digital Twins from Millions of Heartbeats to Petabytes of Data Digital Twin CFD: MP| & OpenMP Advances are Critical - Challenging workloads -- Not just FLOPs anymore → Memory bandwidth & data movement dominate -- Workflows: CFD + Al surrogates + real-time data - Need for Leadership Class Systems -- Generate petascale CFD data -- Process multimodal sensor + imaging data -- Train & deploy Al models in real time - Coupling Al + Physics -- Hybrid workflows: Al + CFD -- Requires heterogeneous parallelism at scale - Importance of MPI and OpenMP -- Efficient global-scale communication, dynamic workflows, in-situ analysis -- Node-level performance on GPUs & heterogeneous hardware -- Enable scalable, clinically viable digital twins HPC is essential for moving digital twins from the supercomputer to the clinic — transforming healthcare EuroMPI/USA 2025, opening keynote by Amanda Randle: HPC in Health: Scaling Vascular Digital Twins from Millions of Heartbeats to Petabytes of Data What is needed for a vascular digital twin? 1. Patient-specific geometry 2. High-resolution simulation 3. Dynamic and continuous tracking 4. Longitudinal hemodynamic mapping EuroMPI/USA 2025, opening keynote by Amanda Randle: HPC in Health: Scaling Vascular Digital Twins from Millions of Heartbeats to Petabytes of Data Beyond digital twins of the circulatory system Digital twins can integrate the growing data available on a per-patient basis, from genetics to immunology to neurology, to build dynamically evolving, predictive models.
October 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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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...

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“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...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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
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September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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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...
September 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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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

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#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
August 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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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...
Group photo of the participants of the Leh Indian Glaciology Summer School 2025 in Mountainous terrain. Photo copyright © Emily Collier & Krishnanand J 2025
August 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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
asc.ac.at Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) @asc.ac.at · Jun 25
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
August 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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...
ASC: Training recap: EuroCC bootcamps 2025
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July 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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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...

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Moon under bombardment
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.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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...
asc.ac.at Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) @asc.ac.at · Jun 25
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
July 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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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
July 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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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...

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@bsc-cns.bsky.social
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
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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
July 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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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 💪
July 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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📢 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...
July 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM