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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 2d

Tomorrow, 7 October 2025, #AIFactoryAustria AI:AT is offering its first webinar! Find out about the foundations of Trustworthy #AI - register now events.asc.ac.at/e/AI-trustwo...

❗The webinar will be delivered in German.

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 9d

EuroHPC User Days 2025 has just started! Follow #HPC users' success stories and projects running on #EuroHPC systems in the livestream: www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/media-events...

@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social

EuroHPC User Days 2025

The EuroHPC User Days 2025 will take place in Denmark on 30 September to 1 October 2025.

www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 9d

Want to start coding for #NVIDIA #GPUs?
Join our training CUDA 4 Dummies, 22-23 Oct 2025, online with hands-on labs.

Learn #CUDA from scratch: events.asc.ac.at/event/208/

#HPC

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 10d

“Women in HPC need more visibility.” Tina Marc and the global initiative Women in HPC are working to change that through mentorship, training, and advocacy. Discover how to get involved: eurocc-austria.at/en/blog/wome...

#HPC #WomenInTech #WomeninIT #ICT

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 13d

Want to break into #HPC or go deeper? Free expert-led training this autumn: #Linux, C++, #CUDA, #MPI.
Choose your spot: events.asc.ac.at/category/4/

#cpp #HPCtrainings

A table of upcoming trainings from ASC/EuroCC Austria:
08 October 2025 Linux Command Line
13-16 October 2025 Modern C++ Software Design (Intermediate)
22-23 October 2025 CUDA 4 Dummies
17-20 November 2025 Parallelization with MPI

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TU Wien @tuwien.at · 24d

„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...

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 24d

“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...

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · 29d

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.
Deadline: 13 October 2025
Learn more: www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Sep 5

About the #AI dataset of Austrian butterfly and moth species in #HPCwire 🦋

Drew Jolly @amjolly.bsky.social · Sep 4

EuroCC Austria: Butterflies and Conservation— Largest AI Dataset Now Released
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Butterflies and Conservation: Largest AI Dataset Now Released

Sept. 4, 2025 — A vast treasure trove of 540,000 images of 185 Austrian butterfly and moth species was collected over several years by thousands of volunteers. Using this resource, […]

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Sep 5

Today, 5 Sept 2025, 14:00, Europe’s first #exascale supercomputer #JUPITER will be inaugurated at the Jülich Supercomputing Center @fzj-jsc.bsky.social

German livestream on LinkedIn: lnkd.in/euY3rZTT
English livestream on JSC website: www.fzj-events.de/en/stream.html

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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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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Aug 20

EuroCC Austria supported ecologist Friederike Barkmann at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social in scaling the #AI training on supercomputers LEO (Innsbruck) & LEONARDO (@cineca.bsky.social) — cutting training times by 90%. Later, the model was trained on LUMI @lumi-supercomputer.eu.

@eurocc.bsky.social #hpc

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Aug 20

The largest dataset of butterflies & moths in Austria is now openly available!

Collected by volunteers, validated by experts, and accelerated by supercomputers, it’s a major resource for training & benchmarking #deeplearning models for species recognition.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning training data: over 500,000 images of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) with species labels - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Machine learning training data: over 500,000 images of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) with species labels

www.nature.com

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Aug 19

University of Vienna is looking for an 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 to work with AI Factory Austria. See job description (in German) ➡️ jobs.univie.ac.at/job/%20Koord...

Application deadline: 5 September 2025

@univie.ac.at
#AIFactory #Austria #Österreich #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #job

Koordinator*in

jobs.univie.ac.at

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Aug 6

Registration deadline has been extended to August, 19!

EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jun 24

Calling all #AI devs in the #EU – Join the first NVIDIA-supported AI Hackathon in Europe!

Boost your ML project with expert mentors & European HPC power.

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗖𝗖 𝗔𝗜 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻
14–23 October 2025
Apply by 5 Aug: www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/...

#AIHackathon #EuroCC #ML #DL #HPC #GPU #NVIDIA

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Aug 6

Registration deadline has been extended to August, 19!

EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 31

Got an AI project that needs some love? Join the EuroCC #AI #Hackathon, feat. NVIDIA, to optimise & scale it with expert support.

🗓️ 14–23 Oct 2025 | Online | Free
✍️ Apply by 5 Aug:
www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/...

#HPC #ML

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 30

Want to fine-tune LLMs without a #GPU cluster? Join our live online training “Fine-tuning on one GPU” for anyone building smart AI w/ lean resources.

8 September 2025 | 09:00–12:30 CET
events.asc.ac.at/event/203/

#LLM #LoRA #PEFT #AItraining #Quantisation #AIonABudget #HuggingFace #Python

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 30

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Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) @asc.ac.at · Jul 22

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

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 16

Get more out of your #LLMs with #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration. Our free course shows you how.

📅 Free online training „Retrieval Augmented Generation“
28 August 2025, 09:00–12:30 CET
Register by 21 August → events.asc.ac.at/event/202/

#AI #RAG #Prompting #LLMs #AITraining

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 14

Wanna have better results with #PromptEngineering? Follow these 5 principles and get better results from language models.

Curious how to apply them effectively? Join our free online training:

Prompt Engineering Essentials | 25 Aug 2025, 9:00–12:30 CET | events.asc.ac.at/event/201/

#LLMs

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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 10

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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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EuroCC Austria @eurocc-austria.at · Jul 10

#PromptEngineering is the most direct way to control model output.

Our experts break down how system prompts, reproducibility, and formatting shape your results. Read the blog: eurocc-austria.at/en/blog/tame...

Join our prompt engineering course in Aug: events.asc.ac.at/event/201/

#HPC #AI

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