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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · 24d

SIESTA 5.4.1 has been released!

This release contains several bugfixes and QoL improvements over 5.4!

Get it here! gitlab.com/siesta-proje...

@max-coe.bsky.social @icn2.bsky.social @icmabcsic.bsky.social

5.4.1 · siesta-project / siesta · GitLab

This is the release of SIESTA 5.4.1. It is the first point release of SIESTA 5.4. Please read the

gitlab.com

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · Aug 1

if you dont know how to write a joke you dont know how to write a game, if you dont know how to tell a joke you dont know how to run a game

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Jun 20

Yesterday night, SIESTA got it's 500th Merge Request on gitlab!

But what is a Merge Request? It's the main avenue we have for adding features and fixes to the code base. If you want to add your own contributions to SIESTA, have a look at these guidelines:

gitlab.com/siesta-proje...

#SiestaDFT

Gitlab Usage · Wiki · siesta-project / siesta · GitLab

A first-principles materials simulation code using DFT. Homepage: https://siesta-project.org/siesta

gitlab.com

Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you are a scientific software developer and struggle on how to get your work cited, I can't recommend this seminar enough!

ideas-productivity.org/events/hpcbp...

#hpc #fosss

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Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) @icn2.bsky.social · Jun 11

📰 NEW UPDATE❗

💻 Last week, ICN2 held the #SIESTA Advanced Workshop, where insights on this #OpenSource code were exchanged. It's used to simulate materials and molecules large scale.

🎉 We also celebrated its 30th anniversary!

🤝 @max-coe.bsky.social
ℹ️ https://bit.ly/4jN9ef4

#Collaboration

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Jun 6

On June 1995, on a CECAM conference, three people presented the first results on SIESTA.

It's June 2025, we held a CECAM workshop exclusively on SIESTA developments. More than 45 people attended for an entire week!

A toast for SIESTA, and it's 30 years of contributions!

#SiestaDFT #DFT

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Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) @icn2.bsky.social · Jun 6

💻 This week, ICN2 hosted the Advanced SIESTA Workshop as a @max-coe.bsky.social member, an event gathering top researchers to explore applications of SIESTA, the open-source code for efficient, scalable simulations based on #DFT.

🙏 Thanks to the organizers & all who joined!

#MachineLearning

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · May 28

You can have a look at the release notes here:
siesta-project.org/siesta/Docum...

SIESTA 5.4.0 Release Notes (2025-05-28)

siesta-project.org

Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · May 28

SIESTA 5.4.0 has been released!
Get it: gitlab.com/siesta-proje...

There is a ton of things in this new release, including the updated QM/MM capability!

@max-coe.bsky.social
@icmabcsic.bsky.social
@icn2.bsky.social

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MaX - Materials design at the eXascale @max-coe.bsky.social · May 21

SIESTA 5.2.2 now runs on ARM!

At the EPICURE HPC Hackathon, Anthoni Alcaraz Torres @icn2.bsky.social adapted the MaX code SIESTA for ARM processors on the Deucalion supercomputer.

Read the full news:
www.max-centre.eu/news/siesta-...

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MaX - Materials design at the eXascale @max-coe.bsky.social · May 22

Welcome to “Voices of MaX”, the conversations that bring you inside the world of advanced #MaterialsResearch and #HighPerformanceComputing 🎙️

Latest episode:
https://f.mtr.cool/vcvxtzogiv

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Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) @icn2.bsky.social · Apr 9

🗣️ We're at #AI4AM2025, an event bringing together top #AI experts & offering the chance to explore the role of #AI in #MaterialScience & engineering.

🤝 ICN2's project, @max-coe.bsky.social, is here too as a Silver Sponsor!

📻 Stay tuned for more deets on ICN2's representation in the event!

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MaX - Materials design at the eXascale @max-coe.bsky.social · Apr 8

We’ve just arrived in beautiful San Sebastián for the start of #AI4AM2025, and the energy is already great! 🤩

Excited to be here representing MaX Centre of Excellence for Materials at the eXascale as Silver Sponsor of the conference!

@fedepedron.bsky.social

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MaX - Materials design at the eXascale @max-coe.bsky.social · Apr 4

Why is the deployment of MaX codes on the #EuroHPC systems a game-changer for the #HPC community?

To discuss the topic, we welcome Nicola SPALLANZANI, Technologist at CNR-Nano and MaX WP1 - Lighthouse Applications for Materials Science:

youtu.be/m0KE9zipUBg?... ⬅️

Why is the deployment of MaX codes on the EuroHPC systems a game-changer for the HPC community?

YouTube video by MaX Centre of Excellence

youtu.be

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Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) @icn2.bsky.social · Feb 12

💡 Did you know that the challenge of the #100tifiques programme in 2019 was to find 𝟏𝟎𝟎 female researchers to participate?

🚀 Yesterday, #11Feb, 610 #científiques visited 502 schools to inspire young students, including 9 ICN2 women.

ℹ️ Click here to learn more! 👉 https://bit.ly/3WYsihT

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Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) @icn2.bsky.social · Feb 11

🌏 #11F: Day of Women & Girls in STEM♀️

🧪 Are you a woman in science? If so, we're honoring your work!

🎒 ICN2 researchers from #Científiques2025 will visit schools to share their passion for science to encourage young girls to pursue careers in STEM.

🤝 @bist.eu & FCRI

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Feb 8

"Keep politics out of science and universities!" Says the kind of person who went to university and is an established scientist because of the amount of societal privileges they (or well, usually a "he") accumulated.

Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Feb 6

Ah, the cursed place of open source scientific software: not famous enough to generate fortune, and at the same time so important and so complex. Forever doomed to "parasite" adjacent scientific projects, always underfunded. Maintenance? What's that?

Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Feb 4

You can of course have a look at the release notes: siesta-project.org/siesta/Docum...

SIESTA 5.2.2 Release Notes (2025-02-04)

siesta-project.org

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Feb 4

SIESTA 5.2.2 has been released!
Get it: gitlab.com/siesta-proje....

This release includes a fix for an memory leak in the new mesh algorithm, improvements on the basis set generation algorithm, and more features for the ELSI interface.
@max-coe.bsky.social @icmabcsic.bsky.social @icn2.bsky.social

5.2.2 · siesta-project / siesta · GitLab

This is the release of SIESTA 5.2.2. It is the second point release of SIESTA 5.2. Please read the

gitlab.com

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Feb 4

In these weird times, I've found this page collects some european alternatives to common web services:

european-alternatives.eu

I heavily recommend to have a look at it!

#eu #software

Homepage | European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

european-alternatives.eu

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Dec 30

My friends in FOMO, take a break to remember why you enjoy doing something: don't let daily quests, limited editions and cosmetic rewards diminish your sense of fun; compete, discover, relax, do with your games what you really enjoy doing and not what a corporation is telling you to do.

Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is the real the answer to the question "why bother?" Why try to push for inclusivity, why put effort into things that others might consider "lost" causes. If you try, you might not get the result you expected, but something will be done. If you don't, then for sure nothing will be done.

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Fede @fedepedron.bsky.social · Dec 11

Episode #109 of @becauselangpod.bsky.social gave me probably the most important takeaway of the year: not losing hope on a cause is important, not because you will necessarily achieve things, but because if you don't hope, you won't even try.

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Caryanna Reuven @caryannareuven.bsky.social · Nov 17

In Spain we are calling them "mariposts" because the Bluesky logo is a butterfly and butterfly in Spanish is "mariposa"

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