Welcome to the EuroCC Newsletter! Here you will find updates about systems, events and more – directly from the National Competence Centres in High-Performance Computing (NCCs for HPC).

SME Demand for skills development in High Performance Computing continues as ICHEC adds fifth company to EUROCC SME Accelerator
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing today announced details of a fifth company to join the EuroHPC Competency Centre SME Accelerator. Fathom is a digital transformation company which has been working in partnership with NUI Galway to develop a platform for predicting seaweed biomass, a potential source of food for humans as well as cattle. >Learn more

Inauguration of Luxembourg’s first supercomputer MeluXina!
The high-level digital launch ceremony of MeluXina, Luxembourg’s first supercomputer hosted in a green Data Center of LuxConnect, took place on June 7th at 14:30 in Bissen. >Learn more

NCC Sweden: First industrial customer on EuroHPC System!
Facilitating and enhancing access of industrial actors to large-scale, high-performance computational resources is one of the pillars of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and EuroCC National Competence Centres are key in developing awareness for these resources in the industrial sector. We are happy to announce.. >Learn more

News from NCC Finland!
Deep dive into the building of the LUMI data center – The data center for LUMI at Renforsin Ranta business park in Kajaani, Finland, has undergone a complete transformation from an empty former paper mill hall to one of the world’s most ecological data centers, and will soon be ready to welcome LUMI. >Learn more

WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL AI-CAPABLE SUPERCOMPUTER at NCC Switzerland
“Alps” system to advance research across climate, physics, life sciences with 7x more powerful AI capabilities than current world-leading system for AI on MLPerf. The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA today announced that they are creating what is expected to be the world’s most powerful AI-capable supercomputer. >Learn more

ICIPRO platform – the nucleus of NCC Romania
The most important operational infrastructure of the Romanian HPC Competence Centre (RO NCC) is ICIPRO platform. The ICIPRO project, as well as the RO NCC, is hosted by the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest). >Learn more

Workshop about EuroHPC Systems at NCC Finland
PRACE Autumn School 2021: Harnessing the EuroHPC Flagship SupercomputersLearn now to harness the potential of modern, GPU-accelerated HPC systems at the PRACE Autumn School organized by CSC – IT Center for Science. The week (11-15 Oct. 2021) is filled with hacking and leisure activities in Vuokatti, Finland. >Read more and apply by 30 June! >Learn more

Launch of our Tier-1 Cloud Component at NCC Belgium
VSC is Flanders’ high-performance research computing environment, providing world-class services to researchers, industry, and government.On May 20th, VSC is launching its Tier-1 Cloud component and it’s a pleasure to invite you to this event!During this webinar the new Tier-1 Cloud component will be presented, highlighting its features and possibilities by showing two use cases already using the infrastructure. Finally, practical … >Learn more

This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research andinnovation programme and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro.