News and Events

CERN has a new data center

Designed to boost the LHC computing power, the new data center was inaugurated last month in France…

Molecular Motors in Virtual Isolation: Project MiCRoARTiS

Researchers at the University of Coimbra are developing new strategies to observe the structural evolution of highly functional molecules using high resolution rotational spectroscopy and quantum chemistry calculations in tandem….

Webinar on Leonardo

If you’d like to know more about the supercomputer, there’s a new webinar coming up this month you can’t miss out!…

RR – the new tool in town

Record-Replay (RR) is the revolutionary mechanism that speeds up GPU programs for scientific applications…

Advanced Computing Projects Call | 4th Edition

High Performance Computing (HPC), Virtual Research Environments (VRE) and Scientific Cloud are the three resources. The fourth edition of the initiative led by FCNN – a Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) unit -, has now its applications open!…

New INCD Operational Center at UTAD

The inauguration of the new INCD operational center at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in Vila Real took place on November 7th. The inauguration was part of the annual Meeting of the National Network for Advanced Computing (RNCA). The new operational center in Vila Real significantly increases the processing and storage resources made available by INCD to the scientific community through its nationwide infrastructure. INCD’s computing and data infrastructure has operational centers in Lisbon, Coimbra and now also in Vila Real with the support of UTAD and FCT. The inauguration of the operational center was attended by representatives from…

There’s news about JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer

The contract for the acquisition of JUPITER was signed last Tuesday, October 3, between EuroHPC JU and the German company ParTec and the French company Eviden. Europe’s first exascale supercomputer will be installed in early 2024 and features an innovative configuration!…

This year’s IBERGRID has come to an end

We have left Benasque! The five days of IBERGRID 23 have come to an end. The Pedro Pascual Science Center hosted the 12th edition of the conference that unites Portugal and Spain in the coordination of scientific applications, distributed computing infrastructures, cloud computing and data repositories….

IBERGRID 2023 has started!

From Monday to Friday, the town of Benasque, in Spain, will host the participants of IBERGRID 2023….

EuroCC Portugal about to release MOOC on Supercomputing

September brings the first MOOC on Supercomputing in Portuguese, developed as part of the EuroCC project. It will be available on the “NAU – sempre a aprender” platform and will be free of charge. There’s already a short presentation video to introduce the course!…

EuroCC Access nominated for the eu. Web Awards

The EuroCC project website is part of the Laurels category, which is dedicated to reward websites that represent educational institutions, charities and European projects. Voting is ongoing until August 18th! Go vote!…

RNCA attended Ciência 2023 summit

The session of the National Network for Advanced Computing took place in the early afternoon of the last day of the portuguese Science summit. The latest updates of RNCA and some future projects were presented, such as the preparation of the MOOC about Supercomputing and the operationalization of the Deucalion supercomputer….

Europe will host six Quantum Computers

Quantum technology will be integrated into supercomputers that are located in several European countries. The agreements between the hosting entities and EuroHPC JU were signed at the end of June in Luxembourg….

IBERGRID 2023: registrations are open!

The 12th Iberian GRID Conference will take place in Spain, at the Centro de Ciências de Benasque Pedro Pascual, between September 25th and 29th….

NVIDIA is building an Artificial Intelligence supercomputer

The DGX GH200 system is being developed for release later this year. Google, Meta and Microsoft will be the first to experience the capabilities of this supercomputer whose performance is expected to reach 1 exaflop….

The benefits of using High Performance Computing in industries

FF4EuroHPC organizes webinars that seek to show the results of integrating high performance computing (HPC) technologies in organizations from different industrial sectors. The next session takes place on May 24th. Previous registration is required….

Counting down for ISC High Performance 2023

Europe’s biggest event for high performance computing is right around the corner. Hamburg hosts another edition, between May 21 and 25. Registration is now open!…

1st national meeting of the EuroCC 2 project

FCCN received, yesterday, the (new and old) members of EuroCC Portugal to set up and launch the second phase of the project. Portugal is ready for EuroCC 2!…

Why can’t we see quarks?

The lattice QCD research group at the University of Coimbra is performing realistic simulations using HPC to better understand the interaction and propagation of particles – quarks and gluons – that have never been observed directly….

Registrations are now open for the EuroHPC Summit 2023

The theme of the 2023 European High Performance Computing Summit has been set: European Supercomputing Excellence in the Exascale Era. It is scheduled to take place from March 20 to 23, in Sweden. The program is already available!…

Calls for access to EuroHPC JU supercomputers

EuroHPC JU has opened several access modes to European supercomputers to ensure that it meets the needs of researchers, research centers, public authorities and industries that want to apply….

BigHPC Project hosts new webinar

“Monitoring in BigHPC: Lessons Learned” is the next webinar organized by BigHPC. Taking place on November 17, it’ll bring together system managers and users to better understand and explore the platform developed in this project, which is supported by LIP….

Computing can be the answer to innovate Portugal’s footwear industry

The footwear industry is still very dependent on trial-and-error approaches – especially in designing shoe soles – that take too much time and resources. Now, the industry is starting to use computing to optimize and innovate the process and products….

LIP’s Computing Group will be at HEPiX Autumn 2022 Workshop

The event brings together engineers, administrators and managers of technological systems used in laboratories and institutions of Nuclear and High Energy Physics. It will take place between October 31 and November 3, in Sweden….

IBERGRID 2022: the return and the guarantee of future editions

The four days of IBERGRID, organized at the University of Algarve, have come to an end. The return of the conference was marked by updates on the Iberian and European panorama and the presentation of numerous works that well illustrate the need for these partnerships. See you next year! (And yes, there are already details about the next edition)…