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🚀 Resharing this valuable opportunity for the VSC community. Want to scale your applications on EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) systems with expert support at no cost? This webinar from EPICURE Project offers practical insights into code optimization, profiling, and scaling across European HPC infrastructures. 💡 For VSC users, this portal is an opportunity to connect with European-level expertise, find support, and accelerate your research on EuroHPC supercomputers. 📅 23 April 2026 💻 Online 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ehmgzN6E Particularly relevant for researchers working in #HPC #QuantumChemistry #CFD #ResearchComputing

C++ Software Engineering – VSC Training Take your C++ skills beyond programming and focus on building robust, maintainable, and high-quality software. Join the VSC training C++ Software Engineering with Geert Jan Bex and learn essential software engineering practices for scientific computing. 📅 April 30, 2026 ⏰ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM 📍 Hybrid (online or on-site at ICTS, KU Leuven) This session focuses on key software engineering aspects of C++, including building, testing, and maintaining applications, as well as applying best practices such as design patterns. What you will learn: • Assess code quality • Build software using CMake • Perform static code analysis and interpret results • Write unit tests using Catch2 • Write functional tests using CTest • Use C++ package managers such as Conan or vcpkg • Apply design patterns for scientific programming • Use STL algorithms and ranges for efficient functional programming This training is intended for participants with experience in C++ and familiarity with the Bash command line. 🔗Info & registration at: https://lnkd.in/eJVVNxqw Build better software. Improve code quality. Apply best practices in C++ development. #Cplusplus #SoftwareEngineering #CodeQuality #Programming #HPC #ScientificComputing #ResearchSoftware

🧠 𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙲𝙷 𝚂𝙷𝙾𝚆𝙲𝙰𝚂𝙴 | How do you train AI models that can reliably decode brain signals across tasks and subjects? A team from KU Leuven has taken on this challenge by developing a large EEG foundation model—achieving 1st place in Challenge 1 of the NeurIPS 2025 EEG Foundation Challenge among more than 1000 teams and 8000 submissions. 🔍 Key insights: • Foundation models enable strong performance in large-scale EEG decoding • Generalization across subjects and tasks remains a core challenge • Benchmarking across diverse datasets is essential for reliable evaluation • Model performance depends on both pretraining and downstream design ⚡ Powered by VSC Tier-1 supercomputing, the team pretrained their model on over 8 million EEG segments using GPU-accelerated infrastructure—turning large-scale experimentation into a winning solution and contributing to a study accepted at ICLR 2026. 📖 Discover how large-scale AI and HPC are advancing brain signal decoding: https://lnkd.in/e9YZEW2K 📩 Stay up to date with the latest breakthroughs in AI, research, and VSC HPC infrastructure: Subscribe to the VSC newsletter → https://lnkd.in/eMCx_Cr7 #Supercomputing #AI #Neuroscience #EEG #NeurIPS #MachineLearning #HPC #Research

Code Optimization – VSC Training Efficient code is essential to fully leverage HPC systems. Learn how to analyze and improve the performance of your applications. Join the VSC training Code Optimization with Geert Jan Bex and gain practical insights into writing high-performance scientific code. 📅 April 28, 2026 ⏰ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM 📍 Hybrid (online or on-site at ICTS, KU Leuven) This intermediate-level session focuses on understanding performance and optimizing code for modern computing architectures. What you will explore: • How to quantify and measure performance • How to dimension computations for optimal resource usage • Key aspects of modern CPU architecture • Impact of NUMA memory architecture • Vectorization and out-of-order execution • Performance considerations for distributed applications • Profiling tools to identify performance bottlenecks This training is intended for participants with a strong background in C, C++, or Fortran, and knowledge of multithreaded and distributed programming (MPI). After this session, you will be able to identify performance bottlenecks and make informed decisions to improve code efficiency and resource usage. 🔗 Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eFtQYp66 Optimize your code. Maximize performance. Unlock the full power of HPC systems.

🚀 HPC User Day 2026 — Highlights Now Live On March 26, KU Leuven and Hasselt University hosted the HPC User Day, marking the successful launch of the new Tier-2 supercomputer. From hands-on GPU and data management training to real-world research applications and discussions on HPC in education, the day showcased how advanced computing continues to support research and innovation across Flanders. 📸 Explore the event highlights, visuals, and presentations: 👉 https://lnkd.in/et7qym5Z A strong moment for the HPC community — bringing together researchers, users, and support teams to share knowledge and build future collaborations. #HPC #Supercomputing #Research #Flanders #data #ai #europe #leuven

🚨 Save the Date | CalcUA 20 Years 🎉 The HPC core facility CalcUA at the University of Antwerp celebrates 20 years of enabling research through high-performance computing. For two decades, CalcUA has supported faculty, staff, and students with powerful computing infrastructure, software, training, and expert guidance—helping accelerate research across disciplines. Join us as we: 🔹 Look back at how it all started 🔹 Reflect on two decades of impact 🔹 Explore what the future holds for HPC and research 📅 Tuesday, May 12, 2026 🕒 Afternoon 📍 City Campus, University of Antwerp CalcUA is part of the Flemish Supercomputer Center, connecting local research to a broader supercomputing ecosystem. More details and registration will follow soon. Your presence highlights the importance of HPC for research and innovation across Flanders. We look forward to celebrating this milestone together! 🟥 Subscribe to the Flemish Supercomputer Center newsletter for the latest events, training sessions, and updates at https://lnkd.in/eykCh2c #hpc #supercomputer #antwerpen #antwerp #event

🔐 VSC Training: Globus – Introduction Working with research data across systems? Learn how to transfer and share datasets reliably and securely. In this hands-on session, you will: ✔ Transfer data between HPC systems, storage platforms, and your laptop ✔ Plan and automate recurring data transfers ✔ Share data with collaborators inside and outside KU Leuven 📅 24 April 2026 🕑 14:00 – 16:30 💻 Online (Teams) 👨🏫 Instructor: Jef Scheepers 🎯 Open to KU Leuven researchers and VSC users. No prior knowledge required. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e5ifiFdZ #HPC #DataTransfer #ResearchData #OpenScience

🎉 Celebrating excellence in biostatistics! Congratulations to Prof. Ziv Shkedy from Hasselt University and Data Science Institute (DSI) UHasselt on receiving the Rob Kempton Award from the International Biometric Society — a recognition of his outstanding contributions to biostatistics education, research, and global capacity building. At Flemish Supercomputer Center, we are proud to support researchers and PhD students whose work contributes to impactful scientific advances worldwide. 👏 A well-deserved achievement and an inspiring example of international collaboration in science. #IBS #Biostatistics #Biometry #GlobalHealth #AcademicExcellence #IBC2026 #ResearchImpact #hpc #data #supercomputer

Missed our latest webinar on scaling CFD performance with HPC? You can now watch the full recordings 🎥 🚀 Unlocking CFD Performance at Scale with Ansys Fluent and the Flemish Supercomputer Center is now available on demand. Explore how advanced GPU computing and HPC infrastructure are transforming CFD workflows—from drastically reducing simulation time to enabling more complex and scalable engineering analyses. 🔗 Watch the presentations: ▶️ Emmerick Vandervelpen | From Hours to Minutes: Speed Up CFD with Ansys Fluent Native Multi GPU Solver on Modern HPC https://lnkd.in/e8UrUzY8 ▶️ Pieter Smet | Pushing Aerodynamic Limits with HPC: A Solar Car Story https://lnkd.in/ehC2ucVs 💡 Featuring insights from industry experts and a real-world case with the Innoptus Solar Team, this webinar showcases how simulation, GPUs, and supercomputing come together to accelerate innovation. Whether you’re in academia, industry, or just passionate about HPC—this is one you don’t want to miss. Stay Informed! Subscribe for more webinars, presentations, and insights on cutting-edge technologies: https://lnkd.in/eykCh2c #CFD #HPC #Supercomputing #GPUComputing #Engineering #Simulation #Innovation #Research #belgium #europe #eu

Defensive Programming and Debugging – VSC Training All code contains bugs. Learn how to reduce them and fix them more efficiently. Join the VSC training Defensive Programming and Debugging with Geert Jan Bex and improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of your code. 📅 April 23, 2026 ⏰ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM 📍 Hybrid (online or on-site at ICTS, KU Leuven, Heverlee) This hands-on session focuses on best practices and practical techniques to write robust code and debug more effectively. What you will cover: • Best practices in coding, code style, and error handling • Using compiler options to detect potential issues • Unit and functional testing • Debugging techniques: breakpoints, inspection, watchpoints, tracing • Common types of bugs and how to handle them • Optional: debugging parallel code This training is intended for participants with experience in C, C++, or Fortran, and familiarity with the bash command line. Experience with MPI or OpenMP is optional. After this session, you will be able to write more reliable code and identify bugs faster using structured debugging approaches. 🔗 Register and info at https://lnkd.in/eMuC2DYR Write better code. Debug smarter. Build more reliable research software. #SoftwareEngineering #Debugging #CodeQuality #Programming #HPC #ScientificComputing #ResearchSoftware #VSC