EUROHPC USER DAYS 2026
The fourth edition of the EuroHPC User Days will take place in Dublin (Ireland) on 22-24 September 2026.
The event is organised by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, together with the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) and the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science of Ireland, under Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The EuroHPC User Days will provide supercomputing users in Europe with the chance to explore various topics and enhance their understanding of the opportunities provided by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the support available to users.
The event will showcase EuroHPC projects that have used European HPC, Quantum Computing and AI supercomputing resources to present best practices in the development of these projects, gather feedback from EuroHPC users and engage with potential new users.
CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing 2026
Students and researchers in different disciplines of scientific computing from all over the world to join CSC’s summer school in High-Performance Computing 2026 on 23.6. – 2.7. in Espoo, Finland.
The school consist of lectures and hands-on training on parallel programming, code performance, and other necessary skills for the development of scientific software for supercomputers and is aimed for graduate students working in various fields of science, e.g., chemistry, physics, life sciences, engineering, or economics as well as industrial R&D professionals.
Earlybird ends 13th of March and final registration is for 1st of May 2026.
More information, like handled topics, and the link for registration is available here.
FFplus European Innovation Showcase: Strategic Integration of AI & HPC
Are you an SME looking to scale your innovation, accelerate development, and gain a real competitive edge?
Join an exclusive FFplus webinar series where SMEs take the stage to showcase how they transformed innovation studies into market-relevant solutions using HPC and Generative AI.
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮?
✔ Real SME success stories — presented by the companies themselves
✔ Practical insights into using HPC & Gen-AI to boost performance and scalability
✔ Concrete, industry-driven use cases with tangible business impact
✔ Inspiration on how advanced computing can strengthen your global competitiveness
These webinars highlight how the synergy of HPC and AI is no longer just for large enterprises. SMEs are already leveraging it to innovate faster and smarter.
Webinar 1: February 18, 2026 | 15:00–18:00 EET
Webinar 2: February 20, 2026 | 15:00–18:00 EET
Webinars to introduce the EuroHPC Federation Platform
University of Tartu HPC centre is the member of a consortium developing the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) that will federate all AI factory supercomputers, HPC systems, and quantum systems across Europe.
In conjunction with the initial release of the EFP planned for March 2026, there will be a series of introductory webinars with short presentations, hands-on demos and time for Q&A.
The first webinar “Introducing the EuroHPC Federation Platform” will take place already on 4 Feb 2026 14:00-15:00 EET.
The various components of the platform will be briefly covered, which are:
- MyEFP web interface – central entry point to EuroHPC systems
- EFP AAI – the Authentication & Authorisation Infrastructure component (based on MyAccessID)
- EFP Allocations – federated resource allocation, monitoring, and management (based on Waldur)
- EFP Federated Software Stack (based on EESSI);
EFP Interactive – interactive web-based access (based on Open OnDemand) - EFP Workflows – federated management of workflows (based on LEXIS)
- EFP Helpdesk
In addition, updates on the timeline for the availability of various platform features currently under active development will be shared.
Read more about EFP and register to webinars.
Webinar: Resource-efficient AI model parallelisation on LUMI supercomputer
This webinar explores how to harness the full potential of the LUMI supercomputer for large-scale AI model training through efficient utilisation of HPC resources. Participants will learn how thoughtful design of neural network architectures and optimal use of parallelisation techniques — such as model, data, and tensor parallelisation — can significantly improve performance and resource efficiency.
The session will demonstrate how frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow can be leveraged to distribute training workloads effectively across multiple GPUs and nodes on LUMI. Attendees will gain practical insights into balancing computational loads, minimising communication overhead, and achieving scalability for advanced AI workloads in an HPC environment.
This webinar is designed for AI practitioners, computational scientists, and HPC users who aim to train large-scale machine learning models efficiently on modern supercomputing infrastructures. It is ideal for professionals seeking to optimise their deep learning workflows by leveraging advanced parallelisation techniques and maximising GPU performance on systems like LUMI. Participants with a background in AI, data analytics, or scientific computing who wish to scale their models and improve training efficiency in high-performance environments will particularly benefit from this session.
Key takeways:
- Understand the fundamentals of model, data, and tensor parallelisation.
- Learn strategies for efficient AI training on HPC systems like LUMI.
- Explore practical examples using PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Gain insights into optimising GPU utilisation for scalable AI workloads.
Date & Time: 22 January 2026, 11:00 – 12:30
Format: Online
Read more about the webinar and register here.
Webinar on FFplus Open Call for Innovation Studies
FFplus second Open Call for Innovation Studies is open! FFplus invites you to attent the webinar that will convey all the information you need to know to successfully submit your proposal.
Webinar Date & Time: Wednesday, December 10th at 15:00 EET.
Industry and Research Organisations: Are you interested in how to apply to the open call and what the call requirements are?
FFplus Open Call addresses the needs of SMEs and Start-ups proficient in generative AI and HPC for large- to extreme-scale computing resources. The strategic objective is to facilitate and strengthen the technological development of European SMEs in the area of generative AI. The participating SMEs and Start-ups will be supported in enhancing their innovation potential by leveraging new generative AI models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), building on their existing expertise, application domain, business model and potential for expansion.
Who can apply to the Open Call?
- SMEs and startups from Europe and Horizon Europe-eligible countries. Research organisations can be part of the consortium as supporting organisations to SMEs.
- Consortia of 1–5 partners (including one SME and 1–4 supporting partners such as SMEs or public/research institutions).
- Funding available: up to €300,000 per proposal (covering all participants).
Opening date
03 December 2025
Deadline date
25 February 2026 17:00 (Brussels time), or when 250 proposals have been received (whichever point in time is earlier)
AI Day 2025
AI Day is the biggest annual event highlighting the leading AI research in Finland. The event brings together researchers, companies, students and the public sector involved in the fast-developing field of AI. AI Day promotes matchmaking, information sharing, and cross-border collaboration —making it the perfect place to connect and learn.
Come and discover how we can support your AI journey. With hands-on expert guidance, tailored training, and access to advanced computing resources, LUMI AI Factory helps you strengthen AI skills, develop innovative solutions, and achieve ambitious goals.
Event details
Place: Dipoli, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Date: 13.11.2025
Time: 9:00 – 18:00 EET
Quantum Autumn School 2025
The Quantum Autumn School 2025 (QAS2025) will be a 5-day event full with expert-led sessions. We’re planning a programme that covers a range of topics within quantum computing, from theoretical foundations to practical applications. Expect a blend of lectures, hands-on exercises, and networking opportunities. You’ll also have the chance to interact with stakeholders involved with the EuroHPC JU quantum computers.
QAS2025 will cover a broad range of topics that will give you a solid foundation in theoretical concepts and the practical know-how to get started with quantum computing in your domain. Starting from introductory lectures and basic tutorials at the first days of the school and building up to intermediate and advanced topics towards the end.
Nordic HPC Summit 2025
The NordicHPC Summit 2025 is the leading event in the Nordics focused on High Performance Computing and AI, bringing together SMEs, industry decision-makers, technology providers, and HPC experts to explore how advanced computing can accelerate innovation, drive business transformation, and enable cutting-edge research across sectors.
The NordicHPC Summit offers a unique opportunity to get inspired by real-world success stories from AI and HPC practitioners across a wide range of industrial sectors. You’ll gain firsthand insights into how cutting-edge computing is accelerating innovation – from AI-driven product development to high-fidelity simulations – while connecting with peers facing similar challenges and opportunities.
Topics:
- AI and HPC
- Adopting HPC in an SME setting
- From proof of concept to production
- Industry Needs and European Initiatives
- Quantum computing, neuromorphic computing, RISC-V and emerging technologies
- Europe – AI Continent
When: Oct 22, 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 CEST
Where: Birger Jarl Hotel, Birger Jarlsgatan 61/A, 113 56 Stockholm, Sweden
Read more about the event and register via this link.
Podcast: High-Performance Computing in Europe
Ever wondered what it takes to build and operate a world-class supercomputing infrastructure? Or how European researchers and businesses are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with HPC?
“Supercomputing in Europe,” hosted by the EuroCC and the CoE network, takes you behind the scenes of the European HPC scene, introducing you to the passionate individuals driving innovation across the continent.
Hear from the people working to unlock the potential of HPC, from AI to molecular simulations, and quantum computing. Discover how startups, SMEs and large companies, as well as public authorities are using these powerful resources to solve critical challenges. Join the bi-weekly conversations every second Wednesday and discover the power of European collaboration.
Listen on
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4pZ7nfUZTs3tDyfWVFAR8q
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/supercomputing-in-europe/id1768782069
Add the RSS feed to your favourite podcast app: https://anchor.fm/s/f01f82a4/podcast/rss
Learn to use LUMI supercomputer: Free training sessions in Tallinn in October 2025
Two high-level, free training sessions focused on using LUMI, one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, will be held at TalTech campus in Tallinn in October 2025.
The introductory hybrid training taking place on October 20-21 requires participants to have basic Unix knowledge and experience with HPC cluster usage. Knowledge of C, Fortran, and Python is also beneficial.
Read more and register: LUMI Intro Course (20.-21. October)
The code profiling and optimization training, scheduled for October 22-24, is designed for advanced users and will be held on-site only. Participation requires good knowledge of HPC cluster operations, Linux command line proficiency, and an active LUMI project.
Read more and register: LUMI Profiling and Optimization Workshop (22.-24. October)
Moving your AI training jobs to LUMI: A Hands-On Workshop
Join the two-day workshop, “Getting Started with AI on LUMI,” designed to familiarize you with the capabilities of the LUMI supercomputer for artificial intelligence applications. This workshop is ideal for those looking to transition from smaller-scale computing environments like laptops, workstations, or cloud VMs to the robust, GPU-intensive LUMI platform.
Participants are invited to bring their own AI training scripts to the workshop, where they will receive personalized support to adapt and run them on LUMI’s advanced GPU system. Whether you aim to leverage a single GPU or scale up to multiple GPUs, our workshop will provide valuable insights and practical skills to enhance your AI projects with LUMI’s powerful computing infrastructure.
Attending the workshop, you will acquire an understanding of the LUMI-G architecture tailored for AI training, including an introduction to SLURM, ROCm, the Lustre/LUMI-O file systems, and the Slingshot 11 interconnect. Specifically, you will:
- Learn to utilize existing AI containers on LUMI and build your own using the container build tool, cotainr
- Learn to distribute AI workloads across multiple GPUs within a single LUMI-G node
- Explore strategies for scaling AI workloads across numerous GPUs distributed over several LUMI-G nodes
- Gain insight into advanced topics for optimizing AI training processes on the LUMI supercomputer
Dates: 08.– 09. Oct 2025
Time: 9:00 – 16:30 CEST each day
Location: Room Fantum (522 in house F), KTH, Lindstedtsvägen 24, 114 28 Stockholm, Sweden
Organizer: LUMI User Support Team (LUST) and PDC Center for High Performance Computing
Data science seminar: "Data Science & AI: research, practice, and education"
The seminar “Data Science & AI: research, practice, and education” will take place on October 2 during Tallinn Data Week 2025. Attendees will hear about approaches taken by companies, as well as collaboration and education opportunities offered by the university.
Time: October 2, 2025, 16:30pm – 9pm
Location: Ülemiste City
Agenda
16:30 Gathering and welcome coffee
17:00 “Data Science and AI @UniTartuCS”
Jaak Vilo, University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Head of Chair of Data Science
17:20 “How to be successful with AI?”
Kristjan Jansons, MindTitan, Co-founder and CEO
17:40 “Data Science at SEB”
Stefano Ciaci, SEB, Data Scientist
18:00 “From Competitions to Business Impact: Becoming a GenAI Engineer”
Kea Kohv, Telia, GenAI Engineer
18:20 Break
18:40 “Sanctions and AI: Balancing Opportunity and Responsibility”
Kadri Pirn, Salv, VP of Screening and Monitoring Business Unit
19:00 “Data and skills in the age of AI”
Meelis Kull, University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Professor of Artificial Intelligence
19:20 Panel discussion
20:00 Networking
This event is supported by the Ministry of Education and Research Centres of Excellence grant TK213 Estonian Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (EXAI).
University of Tartu’s HPC Centre Ramps Up AI Power with Cutting-Edge GPUs to Secure Digital Future
In August 2025, University of Tartu’s Rocket cluster will see the arrival of two new machines, each equipped with four high-VRAM H200 NVL 141GB PCIe 5.0 x16 GPUs. These powerful units are specifically designed for training large AI models, offering an impressive combined video memory of up to 564 GB within a single machine, seamlessly interconnected via a rapid internal NVLINK connection. For even more demanding computations, a 200gbps Infiniband connection between the machines allows for calculations across multiple units, providing enhanced scalability.
“To be well prepared for the second half of 2025, we purchased these top-level GPUs at the University of Tartu HPC Centre,” confirmed Ivar Koppel, ETAIS CEO and University of Tartu HPC Centre`s Director.
Developing our own language models for secure and sensitive data processing and teaching the Estonian language are essential to remain in international competition and not lose our digital capabilities.
At the heart of language model development lies the crucial need for high-performance computing resources, specifically Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). To meet the escalating demands of the latter half of 2025, the University of Tartu HPC Centre has made a strategic acquisition of top-tier GPUs.
EuroHPC User Days 2025
The third edition of the EuroHPC User Days will take place in Copenhagen (Denmark) on 30 September to 1 October 2025. The event is organised by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the EuroCC Denmark and the Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium.
Attendees will be able to showcase EuroHPC projects that have used European HPC supercomputing resources, share best practices in the development of these projects, gather feedback from EuroHPC users and engage with potential new users.
The event will provide supercomputing users in Europe with the chance to explore various topics and enhance their understanding of the opportunities provided by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the support available to users.
Meet the minds shaping Europe's HPC future on the Supercomputing in Europe podcast
Ever wondered what it takes to build and operate a world-class supercomputing infrastructure? Or how European researchers and businesses are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with HPC?
“Supercomputing in Europe,” hosted by the EuroCC and the CoE network, takes you behind the scenes of the European HPC scene, introducing you to the passionate individuals driving innovation across the continent.
Hear from the people working to unlock the potential of HPC, from AI to molecular simulations, and quantum computing. Discover how startups, SMEs and large companies, as well as public authorities are using these powerful resources to solve critical challenges. Join the bi-weekly conversations every second Wednesday and discover the power of European collaboration.
Listen on Spotify or Apple podcasts.
The University of Tartu HPC Centre obtained the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification
The internationally recognised standard confirms that the University of Tartu High Performance Computing Center adheres to the highest data protection and security procedures. This achievement is the result of years of work by the team at the High Performance Computing Center to create an effective security system to protect computing infrastructure.
Specifically, the certification covers the provision and management of high-performance computing, servers, cloud and network services, data backup and associated support services. Such a broad scope ensures that all IT operations and services provided by the UTHPC, such as the use of the LUMI supercomputer, the local high-performance computing cluster Rocket, the sensitive data analysis platform SAPU and the management platform Waldur and related support services, are fully compliant with international security standards.
As part of the certification process, a comprehensive audit of the information security management system of the UT High Performance Computing Center was carried out, including data processing, risk assessment and implementation of security measures across all services provided. Successful certification confirms that the Center is committed to ensuring the reliability and protection of sensitive data in all areas of its activities, and that international collaborators, research partners, the public sector and private companies can trust the UT High Performance Computing Center infrastructure with their most sensitive projects and data.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification involves continuous improvement of systems and regular audits. You can therefore be sure that your information security management system will remain effective against new emerging threats.
The University of Tartu High Performance Computing Center is the lead member of the Estonian Scientific Computing Infrastructure (ETAIS). ETAIS is a nationwide e-infrastructure that combines computers, data storage devices, network solutions, software and support services.
The Second FFplus Open Call for Business Experiments Webinars
Two webinars will be offered to the public to receive all the information for the second FFplus Open Call for Business Experiments.
FFplus Open Call 2- T1 webinars address European SMEs and startups, as well as supporting organisations (e.g., research institutes, universities, ISVs, IT providers) who want to learn more about solving business challenges and advancing to the next level with the help of HPC and AI.
Who can apply to the Open Call?
- SMEs and startups from Europe and Horizon Europe-eligible countries that have had no prior use of, or experience with, HPC services.
- Consortia of 1–5 partners (including one SME and 1–4 supporting partners such as SMEs or public/research institutions).
- Funding available: up to €200,000 per proposal (covering all participants).
Join one of upcoming info webinars (17 June 14:00 CET or 23 June 10:00 CET) and ask your questions directly!
Submission deadline: August 26th, 2025, 17:00 CET.
ISC High Performance 2025
The ISC High Performance 2025 will take place in Hamburg, Germany from 10-13 June 2025. ISC is the largest forum in Europe for HPC, high performance data analytics and AI/machine learning. This annual event brings together the international HPC community, providers and users from industry, public institutions and research organisations.
The ISC High Performance 2025 conference and exhibition is an annual global gathering for HPC technology providers and users. It aims to foster the growth of a thriving community that now includes practitioners of AI, data analytics, and quantum computing. The first ISC conference was held back in 1986. ISC 2025 will be held in Hamburg, Germany from June 10-13, bringing together over 3,500 international attendees to exchange ideas and knowledge under the theme ‘Connecting the Dots.’
ISC 2025 offers a deep dive into the fusion of nascent computing paradigms, with artificial intelligence leading the charge, but underpinned by powerful high performance computing infrastructure and looking ahead to the quantum era.
The course will take place on 27.-28.5.2025 in Amsterdam. For those unable to attend in person, we are pleased to offer the option to join the lectures online.
Details about agenda and registration are available on ISC website.
Moving your AI training jobs to LUMI: A Hands-On Workshop
Join our two-day workshop, “Getting Started with AI on LUMI,” designed to familiarize you with the capabilities of the LUMI supercomputer for artificial intelligence applications. This workshop is ideal for those looking to transition from smaller-scale computing environments like laptops, workstations, or cloud VMs to the robust, GPU-intensive LUMI platform.
Participants are invited to bring their own AI training scripts to the workshop, where they will receive personalized support to adapt and run them on LUMI’s advanced GPU system. Whether you aim to leverage a single GPU or scale up to multiple GPUs, our workshop will provide valuable insights and practical skills to enhance your AI projects with LUMI’s powerful computing infrastructure.
Attending the workshop, you will acquire an understanding of the LUMI-G architecture tailored for AI training, including an introduction to SLURM, ROCm, the Lustre/LUMI-O file systems, and the Slingshot 11 interconnect. Specifically, you will:
- Learn to utilize existing AI containers on LUMI and build your own using the container build tool, cotainr
- Learn to distribute AI workloads across multiple GPUs within a single LUMI-G node
- Explore strategies for scaling AI workloads across numerous GPUs distributed over several LUMI-G nodes
- Gain insight into advanced topics for optimizing AI training processes on the LUMI supercomputer
The course will take place on 27.-28.5.2025 in Amsterdam. For those unable to attend in person, we are pleased to offer the option to join the lectures online.
Registration deadline is 23. May 2025, at 12:00 EEST. Find more information and register here.
LUMI Intro Course
This two-day hybrid course serves as an introduction to the LUMI architecture and setup. It will include lessons about the hardware architecture, compiling, using software and running jobs efficiently. After the course you will be able to work effectively on both the CPU (LUMI-C) as well as GPU partition (LUMI-G). The course is aimed at anyone who wants to know how to perform very large computing tasks, specifically if you intend to use the LUMI supercomputer in the future.
In this training you will:
- connect to LUMI and transfer data from and to the cluster
- understand LUMI’s hardware and effectively compile software on it
- utilize the module system and EasyBuild for software management
- submit and manage jobs with Slurm, including the use of job arrays and GPU/CPU binding
- identify and mitigate I/O bottlenecks in the LUSTRE file system
- create Python environments and run containers on LUMI
The course will be held on 2.-3.6.2025 at Espoo, Finland and also online. Read more and register here until 26.5. 12:00 EEST.
AI Factories: Open for Business | Webinar
This webinar is specifically designed for startups, SMEs, and industry innovators who are interested to access high performance compute power for impactful projects that drive innovation and are beneficial to Europe. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 10:30 – 13:30 (EEST).
- Understand the range of resources and support offered by AI factories,
- Learn about different access modes that are tailored to to varying levels of expertise and project scales, such as Playground, Fast Lane, and Large Scale access, and
- Listen to success stories from early adopters and users.
LUMI AI Factory Launch
Join us on Wednesday, 2 April 2025, starting at 14:00 EEST (13:00 CEST), at Pikku-Finlandia, Helsinki — or online — for a one-day event that will mark a major step forward for AI innovation in Finland and across Europe.
As one of the thirteen AI Factories announced by the EuroHPC JU, the LUMI AI Factory brings together world-class supercomputing, high-value data, and leading AI expertise into one pioneering open AI solution.
Whether you’re a researcher, innovator, or business leader, this launch event is designed to inspire and connect — featuring:
Keynotes from top experts and policymakers Real-world AI use cases from science and industry
AI Factories: a Boost for Artificial Intelligence in Europe | Webinar
AI Factories are a new mega-project of the European Union and the world’s largest public investment in Artificial Intelligence. But what does this mean in practice?
AI Factory hubs will form a network of “one-stop shops” that provide startups, SMEs, and researchers with low-threshold access to AI-optimised supercomputers, technical expertise, and training. A key focus here is ensuring AI trustworthiness, making cutting-edge AI both powerful and responsible.
In this webinar, our speakers will walk you through the core concept behind AI Factories and their role in Europe’s AI strategy, as well as services, synergies with existing HPC/AI initiatives like EuroCC, the infrastructure, jobs, and opportunities these new hubs will bring.
Date: 31 March 2025, 14:00 – 15:30 EET
Target audience: Industry, academia, public sector
Organisers: EuroCC Austria and VSC Research Center, TU Wien in collaboration with ENCCS and EuroCC Italy.
GPU Programming with HIP
This course gives basic to intermediate level knowledge on HIP programming. It starts with a basic introduction to writing GPU applications using HIP and their corresponding CUDA counterparts. Then, building on this, more advanced topics are introduced. These enable one to write efficient HIP applications, including asynchronous execution with streams, utilizing performance tools and how to write efficient kernels. Finally multi-GPU programming will be discussed.
After the course, the participants will be able to write simple GPU programs, know how to analyse the performance of their GPU programs, and understand how to combine GPUs with MPI.
No prior knowledge on GPU programming or HIP/CUDA is required, but the participants are assumed to have a working knowledge of the C++ (or C) programming language and to be familiar with MPI.
The course will be held on 27.-28.3.2025 at CSC, Espoo, Finland. Please see the agenda and register.
The specialists from the University of Tartu create unified and secure access to Europe's supercomputers
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking integrates supercomputers, quantum computing, and interconnected data infrastructure across Europe with the help of specialists from the University of Tartu High Performance Computing Center to facilitate access to computational power for European scientists and businesses.
Under the leadership of EuroHPC, nine state-of-the-art supercomputers are operating in various locations across Europe, with six quantum computers soon to be added. To simplify access to these machines, a tender was organised to create the EuroHPC Federation Platform. The competition was won by a consortium, in which the University of Tartu will contribute to enhancing Europe’s high-performance computing ecosystem and support the development of European science, education, and business.
“Supercomputers and high-performance computing help process large amounts of data quickly. This is essential in research and development to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning and to perform complex simulations,” said Ivar Koppel, Head of the High Performance Computing Centre at the University of Tartu. According to him, a drawback of the European supercomputing ecosystem is that each supercomputer has a unique architecture, and users are managed differently across computing centres. “Thanks to the EuroHPC Federation Platform, a connection will be created between European supercomputers, artificial intelligence systems, quantum computing, and data infrastructure. This will make high-performance computing easier and improve access to cutting-edge technology for European countries,” explained Koppel.
The Waldur software, developed at the University of Tartu, will be used on the Federation Platform to share computing resources. Therefore, the university plays a vital role in ensuring better accessibility to EuroHPC computing systems and, as a result, the broader adoption of these systems. The platform’s clients will include the European scientific community, businesses, and public sector institutions. In the future, there are plans to integrate artificial intelligence factories being built in Europe with the same platform.
The consortium developing the EuroHPC Federated Platform is led by CSC – IT Center for Science (Finland). It includes the University of Tartu, the pan-European research network GÉANT, Ghent University (Belgium), the University of Ostrava (Czech Republic), and NORDUnet. The project’s cost is 20 million euros, and it is supported by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program. The platform’s development began in January of this year and will last five years.
EuroHPC Summit 2025
The EuroHPC Summit 2025 will take place on 18-20 March in Kraków, Poland.
The EuroHPC Summit is an annual event gathering key European HPC and quantum computing stakeholders from providers to scientific and industrial users, to policy makers.
The Summit is an important moment to showcase the latest achievements and opportunities in the European supercomputing ecosystem, but also to discuss and reflect on the current and future challenges in HPC and quantum computing . The event also provides a great opportunity for attendees to network and connect with the European supercomputing community.
To register to the EuroHPC Summit 2025, consult the dedicated page.
Webinar: Harnessing HPC and AI - Open Source Innovations and Real-World Applications
LUMI HPE Centre of Excellence (HPE CoE), AMD and the LUMI User Support Team will conduct an intensive five-day course designed to elevate your understanding and skills in utilizing the LUMI supercomputer. This course is divided into two parts: a two-day introductory segment followed by a three-day advanced workshop. Participants have the option to register for the three-day advanced workshop independently if they are already familiar with the introductory material.
The course will take place on 3.-7.3.2025 in Stockholm, Sweden.
After completing the full course, participants will be able to:
- Connect to LUMI and transfer data efficiently.
- Understand LUMI’s hardware and compile software effectively.
- Utilize the module system and EasyBuild for software management.
- Submit and manage jobs with Slurm, including job arrays and GPU/CPU binding.
- Identify and mitigate I/O bottlenecks in the LUSTRE file system.
- Create Python environments and run containers on LUMI.
- Write job scripts for optimal performance, including efficient GPU binding.
- Compile programs using the Cray Programming Environment efficiently.
- Profile applications to understand performance bottlenecks.
- Use parallel debuggers to solve problems in MPI applications.
Moving your AI training jobs to LUMI: A Hands-On Workshop
This two-day workshop, “Getting Started with AI on LUMI,” is designed to familiarize you with the capabilities of the LUMI supercomputer for artificial intelligence applications. This workshop is ideal for those looking to transition from smaller-scale computing environments like laptops, workstations, or cloud VMs to the robust, GPU-intensive LUMI platform.
Participants are invited to bring their own AI training scripts to the workshop, where they will receive personalized support to adapt and run them on LUMI’s advanced GPU system. Whether you aim to leverage a single GPU or scale up to multiple GPUs, our workshop will provide valuable insights and practical skills to enhance your AI projects with LUMI’s powerful computing infrastructure.
Attending the workshop, you will acquire an understanding of the LUMI-G architecture tailored for AI training, including an introduction to SLURM, ROCm, the Lustre/LUMI-O file systems, and the Slingshot 11 interconnect.
The event will take place on 4.-5.2.2025 in Espoo, Finland. Read more and register here!
Webinar: Harnessing HPC and AI - Open Source Innovations and Real-World Applications
NCC France, NCC Romania, NCC Austria, NCC Netherlands and NCC Spain invite you to attend the webinar “Harnessing HPC and AI: Open Source Innovations and Real-World Applications”, where leading experts and practitioners will share insights into the transformative potential of High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
This event will focus on using open-source tools, including Scikit-learn, in the HPC ecosystem and showcase practical AI and HPC applications through a series of compelling case studies presented by experts from multiple European National Competence Centres (NCCs).
The webinar will take place on December 16th, 2024. See the agenda and register for the webinar!
LUMI Intro Course
Join the online “LUMI Intro Course” that serves as an introduction to the LUMI supercomputer architecture and setup. The course will take place on 10.-11.12.2024.
This course is aimed at anyone who wants to know how to perform very large computing tasks, specifically if you intend to use the LUMI supercomputer in the future.
In this training you will:
- connect to LUMI and transfer data from and to the cluster
- understand LUMI’s hardware and effectively compile software on it
- utilize the module system and EasyBuild for software management
- submit and manage jobs with Slurm, including the use of job arrays and GPU/CPU binding
- identify and mitigate I/O bottlenecks in the LUSTRE file system
- create Python environments and run containers on LUMI
The course is intended for users that have taken a previous general HPC introduction course or already have experience with computing on HPC clusters.
Read more and register here. Registration remains open until 4.12. 16:00 EET
Quantum Autumn School 2024 (Hybrid)
ENCCS joins forces with NordIQuEst, to deliver a three-day quantum autumn school on 2.-4. December 2024 in Stockholm!
Recent developments in quantum technologies are bringing the world closer to a technological revolution. The advent of quantum computers able to provide considerable acceleration to important computational tasks. In the coming years, quantum-accelerated high-performance computing is expected to have a significant impact on many areas of research that can utilise computational modelling.
The event will include:
- Overview of the main state-of-the-art QC hardware approaches.
- Overview and update on recent developments in QC software stacks.
- Integration of QC with classical computing: hybrid classical/quantum algorithms and HPC+QC systems.
- QC programming in high-level languages for scientific and industrial use cases.
Data Science Seminar "Driving Innovation with High-Performance Computing"
The UT Institute of Computer Science and the UT High Performance Computing Centre invite all those interested to discover the exciting world of supercomputers, high-performance computing, and their possible uses. The event takes place on November 26, 2024 at the UT Delta Study Building in Tartu.
High-performance computing allows researchers to solve the most complex challenges quickly and even explore areas where experiments are unthinkable. Successful companies apply supercomputers for innovative R&D activities, cost reduction, and competitive advantage. At the seminar, we will hear inspiring presentations about how experts in various fields use supercomputers and what benefits they can get from it.
Seminar programme:
- 15:45 Welcome coffee
- 16:15 Opening remarks by Ivar Koppel, Head of UT High Performance Computing Centre & Leading partner of Estonian Scientific Computing Infrastructure ETAIS, “ETAIS: Pioneering the Future of Technology and Innovation”
- 16:25 Rainer Turner, IT Architect of Bürokratt at the Estonian Information System Authority
- 16:50 Priit Paluoja, Head of Data Management at Celvia CC, “Honey bulk DNA metagenomic analysis using University of Tartu High Performance Computing Centre”
- 17:15 Alena Kushniarevich, Researcher at the UT Institute of Genomics Estonian Biocentre, “Interdisciplinary studies of human past: a genomic data perspective”
- 17:40 Coffee break
- 18:00 Taido Purason, Junior Research Fellow at the UT Institute of Computer Science, “Training and Applying LLMs on LUMI Supercomputer”
- 18:25 Hardi Hakk, Head of Aerodynamics at Formula Student Team, “HPC usage in engineering practices for Formula Student”
- 18:50 Networking
EuroHPC User Day 2024
Info Day on AI-Friendly EuroHPC Systems
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) will host a three-hour virtual Information Day on Wednesday, 25 September (10:30 EEST) on AI-Friendly EuroHPC Systems.
The event will discuss:
- How to use EuroHPC JU systems for AI applications
- Best practices of EuroHPC JU systems for AI
- How such systems will support different types of software and AI frameworks
Discover LUMI use cases
Are you curious to know which projects are running on LUMI and other EuroHPC JU-owned supercomputers?
To find projects utilising LUMI, simply select ‘LUMI-C’ or ‘LUMI-G’ (or both!) from the System Partition filter.
Get ready to be inspired!
Large Language models on supercomputers
In this intensive two half-day course organized by VSC & EuroCC Austria, participants will dive into the world of LLMs and their development on supercomputers. From covering the fundamentals to hands-on implementations, this course offers a comprehensive exploration of LLMs, including cutting-edge techniques and tools such as parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), quantization, zero redundancy optimizers (ZeRO), fully sharded data parallelism (FSDP), DeepSpeed, and Huggingface accelerate.
By the end of this course, participants will have gained the understanding, knowledge and practical skills to develop LLMs effectively on supercomputers, empowering them to tackle challenging natural language processing tasks across various domains.
Prerequisites: Basic programming skills in Python.
Target audience: Course for academia, industry, and public administration.
Course format: A live online course
Time: 25.-26.09.2024, 10:00 – 14:00 EEST
Nordic Industry Days
Join the Nordic Industry Days 2024 on September 2-3 in Copenhagen to discuss the latest developments in Supercomputing, AI, and Quantum Computing and how they can boost your business model.
The event will discuss:
- How to use EuroHPC JU systems for AI applications
- Best practices of EuroHPC JU systems for AI
- How such systems will support different types of software and AI frameworks
Are you a professional or a leader in the industry, high-tech startup, and SME interested in learning about new trends, use cases, and innovation within the supercomputing and AI world? Then this event is for you!
Save costs, become competitive, and improve efficiency by harvesting the power of supercomputers in your daily routines.
FFPlus project funds European SMEs and start-ups wanting to use supercomputers
The computational methods encompass a large range of possibilities: modelling and simulation, data analytics, machine learning, and AI – all options empowering SMEs through enhanced innovation and competitiveness.
The benefits of using HPC include:
- saving time for product/service development and decrease time to market
- saving costs by optimising data processing tasks
- Increased efficiency and higher levels of innovation
- more specialised, tailor-made products and services
- greater competitiveness
- gaining new knowledge and know-how by R&D experts
During the project’s lifetime (2024-2028), SMEs and start-ups will be supported through six open calls to fund business experiments and innovation studies.
Business experiments will address the uptake of HPC by SMEs in order to solve specific business challenges of SMEs that have had no prior use of, or experience with, HPC services.
Innovation studies, in contrast, will support European SMEs and start-ups already active in the field of generative AI technology, which lack the necessary computational resources to scale up.
Business experiments will address the uptake of HPC by SMEs in order to solve specific business challenges of SMEs that have had no prior use of, or experience with, HPC services.
Successful applicants will receive funding and support from FFplus to conduct these sub-projects. As computing resources, Estonian SMEs and start-ups can use the Estonian Estonian national e-infrastructure or LUMI, the fastest supercomputer in Europe.
The First Open Call will remain open for submissions until September 4th, 2024, at 17:00 Brussels local time.
POP3 Profiling and Optimisation Tools Workshop
This course, organised in collaboration with POP Centre of Excellence, NCC Austria, NCC Czechia, NCC Hungary, NCC Poland, NCC Slovakia and NCC Slovenia, brings together expertise and resources from various organisations to support developing and optimising high-performance computing applications.
The first day of the workshop introduces participants to the POP Centre of Excellence, detailing its services, methodology, and tools for performance assessments and second-level services. On the second day, the focus shifts to getting started with open-source multi-platform tools for analysing MPI+OpenMP application executions on CPU architectures. The third day delves into more advanced usage, including analysing application executions on combined CPU and GPU architectures. During this hands-on workshop, participants will be introduced to the use of Paraver/Extrae and Scalasca/Score-P/CUBE toolsets for CPUs and GPUs.
Attendees will learn how to use the parallel performance analysis tools of the Performance Optimisation and Productivity (POP) CoE and a corresponding methodology for applying those tools to assess execution performance and scaling efficiency of their own parallel application codes in a portable fashion.
Date: 4–6 September 2024
Registration deadline: 28 August 2024
Venue: online via Zoom, on-site at IT4Innovations (Ostrava – Poruba, Czech Republic Czech Republic)
Web page: https://events.it4i.cz/event/267/
SMEs can assess their HPC potential by using the HPC4SME tool
The HPC4SME Assessment Tool offers to SMEs the opportunity to discover IF and HOW the organisation can benefit from supercomputing services.
The HPC4SME tool will simply lead you through the questionnaire. The whole process takes approx. 30 minutes. The questionnaire allows you to pause answering at any time and the system saves all the data that has been filled in. You can return and complete the questionnaire later. During the process, the system offers many helpful hints to assist you. In case you need any further help, you can contact HPC4SME Assessment Tool Team. After the questionnaire is completed, company will receive the report with valuable recommendations on how to benefit by using HPC in their business free of charge!
Moving your AI training jobs to LUMI: A Hands-On Workshop
Join our two-day workshop, “Getting Started with AI on LUMI,” designed to familiarize you with the capabilities of the LUMI supercomputer for artificial intelligence applications. This workshop is ideal for those looking to transition from smaller-scale computing environments like laptops, workstations, or cloud VMs to the robust, GPU-intensive LUMI platform.
Participants are invited to bring their own AI training scripts to the workshop, where they will receive personalized support to adapt and run them on LUMI’s advanced GPU system. Whether you aim to leverage a single GPU or scale up to multiple GPUs, our workshop will provide valuable insights and practical skills to enhance your AI projects with LUMI’s powerful computing infrastructure.
Dates: May 29th – 30th, 2024
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Organizer: LUMI User Support Team (LUST) and EuroCC National Competence Centers (NCCs) in Finland and Denmark
NeIC 2024 - Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Conference "Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow"
The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) facilitates the development and operation of high-quality e-Infrastructure solutions in areas of joint Nordic interest. NeIC is a distributed organization consisting of technical experts from academic institutions across the Nordic countries. NeIC’s activities work to improve e-infrastructure and enable better research in the Nordic-Baltic region. The NeIC collaboration is steered by the Nordic e-Infrastructure providers in the Nordic countries and Estonia.
The NeIC conferences are organized biannually, bringing together e-infrastructure experts, researchers, policymakers, funders, and national e-infrastructure providers from the Nordics and beyond. The NeIC 2024 conference theme is “Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow”.
Time: 27.-29. May 2024
Venue: Park Inn by Radisson Meriton Conference & Spa Hotel Tallinn
AI meets Life Sciences: Novel Approaches to Healthcare and Drug Development
This webinar, organized by NCC Austria, delves into the most crucial and intriguing questions for humanity: How can we accelerate the development of new medications and revolutionise healthcare?
For answers, we look into artificial intelligence and supercomputing – technologies that are enabling entirely new approaches to science and research.
On 30 April 2024, leading professionals in life sciences will guide you through the landscape of AI tools in structural biology with a focus on the groundbreaking AlphaFold, discuss the role of AI for personalised medical therapies and explore the role of supercomputers in this endeavour.
Comprehensive general LUMI course
This four-day hybrid course serves as a comprehensive introduction to the LUMI architecture and programming environment. It will include lessons on compiling and using software, programming models (HIP and OpenMP offload), porting, executing jobs, and optimizing applications to run on AMD MI250X. After completing the course, you will be able to work efficiently on both the CPU (LUMI-C) and the GPU partition (LUMI-G).
Participants are expected to have:
- Solid knowledge of HPC cluster computing.
- Familiarity with Linux command line and programming (C, Fortran, or Python).
This is not an HPC intro course but a in-depth discussion of the specifics and peculiarities of LUMI.
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the specifics and peculiarities of the LUMI hardware and software
- Write job scripts to get the best performance, for example through efficient GPU binding
- Compile programs utilize the Cray Programming Environment efficiently
- Profile their application in order to understand performance bottlenecks
- Use parallel debuggers to solve problems in MPI applications
Nextflow course for beginners (April 19, April 26, May 3, 2024)
This 3-day Nextflow course by ELIXIR Estonia, in collaboration with the University of Tartu HPC Center, comprehensively introduces the powerful workflow language. Nextflow is renowned for its robust, scalable, and reproducible methods of running computational pipelines. Through efficient, interactive lessons, participants will gain a solid understanding of Nextflow technology, from fundamental to advanced concepts.
The course ensures that participants receive frequent hands-on experience while minimising theoretical sessions. By the end of this course, participants are expected to possess the necessary proficiency to develop, use and deploy their own workflows using Nextflow. Additionally, participants will receive an introduction to nf-core pipelines, gaining insights into how these ready-to-use pipelines can be integrated into their workflows for enhanced bioinformatics analysis.
4th Baltic HPC and Cloud Conference in Riga on April 11-12, 2024
We invite you to join the conference for the Baltic Sea region to exchange ideas and discuss future collaboration models with NCCs, CoEs, EDIHs, and governmental representatives. We will have separate sessions dedicated to each of these topics, including Industry sessions with real-life examples from SMEs in using HPC, Quantum Computing with European perspective and main differences between QC and HPC. We will look into new developments in HPC and HPC training, as well as authentication possibilities to access HPC. This is an event for the Baltic countries to learn from the experience of the Nordic countries.
This conference will be especially relevant for different research communities that use HPC, including students, HPC experts, and industry.
The conference is organised by National HPC Competence Centres (NCCs) in Latvia (SuperS), Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden (ENCCS), Finland (CSC), and Denmark (DK-NCC) within the framework of the EuroCC 2 project.
Participation is free of charge. Registration is now open.
LUMI Intro course on February 2, 2024
This one day online course serves as a short introduction to the LUMI architecture and setup. It will include lessons about the hardware architecture, compiling, using software and running jobs efficiently. After the course you will be able to work efficiently on both the CPU (LUMI-C) as well as GPU partition (LUMI-G).
The course is intended for users that have taken a previous general HPC introduction course or already have experience with computing on HPC clusters. Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of HPC cluster computing as well as familiarity with Linux command line and programming (C, Fortran, or Python).
Running GROMACS efficiently on LUMI workshop 2024
GROMACS is one of the most popular open source molecular dynamics simulation engines, that is increasingly used also by the industry, which enables them to benefit of the significant EuroHPC JU GPU-computing capacity. To facilitate its efficient use, BioExcel CoE is organizing a hands-on LUMI course 24 – 25 January 2024.
Webinar on AI in Structural Biology
Vlaams Computer Centrum and EuroCC Belgium are organising a webinar on January 19th 2024 to delve into the transformative role of AI in structural biology, spearheaded by AlphaFold2. Discover how this cutting-edge technology is reshaping our approach to protein structures, enhancing knowledge of protein-protein interactions, and leading the way in de novo protein design.
We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Arne Elofsson (Stockholm University), Casper Goverde (EPFL), and Dr. Maxim Tsenkov (EMBL-EBI) for an enlightening session filled with groundbreaking insights at the forefront of AI applications in structural biology.
More information and registration via this link.