We were thinking to take the entire #HPC section to #SC in St Louis this year (it's time for us to build a new cluster). But for obvious reasons none of us are going, not this year nor coming years.

Fortunately, HPC Asia *and* Supercomputing Asia will have a joint 4-day conference in Osaka, Japan in January! It's perfect - not just because it's 15 minutes by bicycle from our family home; Glitch #coffee has a shop at walking distance. Just saying.

https://www.sca-hpcasia2026.jp/

Five Big Questions for HPC-AI in 2025

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/01/28/five-big-questions-for-hpc-ai-in-2025/

How big can the AI market get?
Will Hyperscale Completely Take Over Enterprise Computing?
What Effect Will the New U.S. Administration Have on HPC-AI?
Can Anyone Challenge Nvidia?
What About Good Old HPC?
The article highlights the evolving dynamics between High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI. While AI is increasingly integrated into HPC tasks, such as optimization and pre-processing...

Five Big Questions for HPC-AI in 2025

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/01/28/five-big-questions-for-hpc-ai-in-2025/

How big can the AI market get?
Will Hyperscale Completely Take Over Enterprise Computing?
What Effect Will the New U.S. Administration Have on HPC-AI?
Can Anyone Challenge Nvidia?
What About Good Old HPC?
The article highlights the evolving dynamics between High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI. While AI is increasingly integrated into HPC tasks, such as ...

Prediction. $CRWV is a bubble popping IPO stonk indicator, mirroring the epic late nineties all time bellwether — pets dot com, but for #ai vs dog food If they do a Super Bowl ad, with sock puppets — we will know for sure. Y’all heard it here first. #hpc en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwet...

Bellwether - Wikipedia

We upstreamed an SME code generator for tensor processing primitives to the LIBXSMM library. Small matrix-matrix multiplications are one of the supported primitives, and the code generation can be tested with a few commands:

```
git clone https://github.com/libxsmm/libxsmm.git
cd libxsmm; make -j BLAS=0
cd samples/xgemm; make -j
./gemm_kernel F32 F32 F32 F32 512 512 512 512 512 512 \
1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 nopf nobr 0 1 10000 0
```

https://scalable.uni-jena.de/research/2025/03/31/sme-kernels.html

“Build daemon drops its privileges”
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2025/03/build-daemon-drops-its-privileges/

Question for people involved with computational science, #supercomputing, or similar at academic institutions or national labs:

Which do you professionally self-identify as most strongly?

#HPC person?

#RSE person?

Computational scientist?

Other? If so, what?

#ClimateScience has correctly predicted many aspects of global warming. However, regional #ClimateChange poses a challenge. Discrepancies between the real world & our expectations have emerged. At the same time, disruptive #technologies have become available. Tiffany Shaw (U Chicago) & #MPIM director Bjorn Stevens provide an interpretation for the situation suggesting the field is evolving & that embracing discrepancies is a key path forward. https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/detail-view-news-homepage/regional-climate-signals-pose-new-challenges-for-climate-science
#AI #HPC

Busy year:

- Workflow programming for Data Analysis on #HPC Systems (Course in Mainz in January):
- Same Course in Dresden (February)
- #SnakemakeHackathon2025 at the CERN in March:
- upcoming: #OpenScience Retreat (no hashtag, yet?) in April
- International Supercomputing Conference in June (so, @boegel, I will be there, after all and hope to meet people from @irods, too ; will you be there folks from #iRODS ?)
- German Conference for #Bioinformatics and NHR Conference in September

And I do not know whether this will be all. I have a nagging feeling there is more to come

Introducing FlashBlade//EXA—Pure Storage’s next-gen solution optimized for massive AI and HPC workloads, delivering unmatched performance and scalability. Ready to revolutionize your data storage? Learn more now!

#AI #DataStorage #HPC #Innovation #FlashBladeEXA #PureStorage 

https://blog.purestorage.com/products/flashblade-exa-for-large-ai-workloads/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Zoho+Social

Get ready for the interSpace! We are coming to make #k8s extension to #SLURM, GPU on-demand VMs and CaaS a #cncf community effort!

https://l.infn.it/interlink

#Kühlung im #Datacenter

Performance erzeugt #Hitze: Reichen angesichts von #HPC, #KI und steigender CPU-/GPU-Dichte die klassischen Kühllösungen noch aus - Mit welchen Technologien wird der neuen Hitzewelle im Datacenter bzw. am Edge begegnet?

Alle Mitglieder der Netzpalaver-Community sowie Datacenter-Experten sind aufgerufen, sich mit einem maximal 2minütigen Video-Statement zu beteiligen.

Frage: „Reichen klassischen Kühllösungen im Datacenter noch aus?“

Join us 26-MAR-2025 1700 UTC online at https://aka.ms/hpc_hallway/ to mark 5 years of #HPChuddle / #HPChallway - the weekly open informal online gathering of #HPC people set up 5 years ago to support our HPC community networking as in-person meetings closed down - and later inspiring the creation of https://hpc.social/

https://hpc-hallway.github.io/The-Hallway/

This community videocall has happened every week of 5 years since the 1st gathering in March 2020 (missing a few over December holidays).

European Foundation Model – What will the weather be like?
The #WeatherGenerator project combines AI with high-performance computing (#HPC) – including #exa_JUPITER in Jülich – to improve weather & climate forecasts, support renewable energy planning, and help mitigate extreme weather.

We’re highlighting the project for #WorldWeatherDay on March 23.

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/news/news-items/news-flashes/2025/weathergenerator-project-launched

Python II

Advance your #Python skills in this 3-day #workshop focusing on advanced #programming & #datascience.

Requires Python I or equivalent experience.

19–21 May
Panum, University of Copenhagen
Register: https://heads.ku.dk/calendar/2025/courses/python-2-spring-2025/

High-performance computing, with much less code

(... back in my business development days I was interested in "rules and schemes" that would separate what is to be done with how it should be done)

https://news.mit.edu/2025/high-performance-computing-with-much-less-code-0313

Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich gives a high speed and information rich explanation of #UltraEthernet for #HPC and #AI at #SOS27

JSC is at the @EuroHPC_JU Summit 2025 in Krakow, joining 1000+ HPC enthusiasts. We're featured in panels on #HPC, #AI, and #quantum computing.
The new JADE quantum computer from Pasqal is on display, and EUMaster4HPC students are showcasing #exa_JUPITER in the demo lab.
JSC is also promoting open positions at the job fair and offers networking and discussions about HPC, QC, and AI with colleagues from all over Europe.

Fascinating conversations during this morning’s #SOS27 sessions and over lunch on role of #AI in writing / porting / optimising / maintaining #software for #HPC

Is HPC software truly special/different in some way?

What is the best interaction between human and AI developers?

Sunrise this morning before another day of #HPC and #AI talks, Q&A, and networking conversations at #SOS27