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hpc.bw at the ECER 2026 in Tampere\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
From 18 to 22 August 2026, Marie Rathmann and I (Alexander Kolling) had the opportunity to attend at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Tampere, Finland, organised by the European Educational Research Association (EERA). The conference followed the Theme \u201cKnowing and Acting: The changing conditions and potentials of education research\u201d, bringing together researchers…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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Community Contributions \u2013 Share your HPC Expertise\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
HPC competencies are rarely acquired through formal education alone. Instead, researchers typically build their expertise gradually while working on their own projects, by solving technical problems, consulting various forms of soft- and hardware documentation, exchanging ideas with other colleagues, participating workshop formats, using online tutorials or simply through experimenting with software and learning from trial…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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1st Stuttgart Research Software Day and 6th Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany (deRSE26)\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
The 1st Stuttgart Research Software Day took place on March 2, 2026, at the University of Stuttgart. Our contribution was a poster titled \u201cxbat\u2013An easy-to-use and universally applicable benchmarking automation tool for HPC software within the project hpc.bw (dtec.bw)\u201d. This event was followed by the deRSE26 conference, held from March 3 to 5, 2026. The…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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Review: HSUper Workshop April 23-24, 2026\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
Annually, hpc.bw project organizes a variety of workshops aimed at supporting skill development among HSUper and ISCC users. Continuing this tradition, this year, the HSUper workshop took place on 23rd and 24th of April, at the Helmut Schmidt University\/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (HSU\/ UniBw H). This year\u2019s workshop primarily focused on encouraging…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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New Storage Systems: HSUper Backup and Fast Flash ISCC Storage now online\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
We are happy to announce that two new storage systems went into operation! All HSUper users have now access to an additional file system designed specifically for backups. This new storage system, which can be found using the $BACKUP environment variable, built on top of ZFS, provides excellent data resilience and automatic snapshots of stored…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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Installation Process: Cerebras CS-3\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
Helmut Schmidt University has acquired a two-node Cerebras CS-3 system. This is a cutting-edge AI-focused supercomputer, designed among other HPC applications also for training and using large language models. This system is powered by Cerebras‘ third-generation Wafer Scale Engines, delivering an FP16 peak performance of 125 PFLOP\/s through 900 000 for sparse linear algebra optimized…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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Review: Driving Interdisciplinary HPC Forward \u2013 hpc.bw Annual Meeting 2026\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
On 24\u201325 February 2026, the annual Full Project Meeting of the hpc.bw project took place at the Helmut-Schmidt-Universit\u00e4t in Hamburg. The event was hosted in the Thomas-Ellwein-Saal. The first day focused on computational science with a strong emphasis on modeling and HPC. Philipp Neumann and Karsten Meier presented the current status of MaST; Markus Bause…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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Save the Date: HSUper Workshop, October 16-17, 2025 @HSU\/UniBw H\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
Autor: Alexander Kolling Over the past two years, the HSUper Workshop has become a recurring opportunity for both HPC newcomers and advanced users at HSU to build skills and competencies in using HPC resources\u2014particularly the HSUper. This year\u2019s edition will take place October 16\u201317, 2025, featuring a combination of hybrid and on-site formats. Unlike previous…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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hpc.bw @ International Conference in Wroc\u0142aw for Adult Learning in (Higher) Education\t\t<\/h3>\t<\/header>
Exploring the Role of HPC in Education for Sustainable Development Autor: Alexander Kolling From June 12 to 16, 2025, the international conference „Critical Learning for Sustainable Development: Communities‘ and Universities‘ Discourses“ took place in Wroc\u0142aw, Poland. The event brought together researchers from various disciplines and countries to explore the role of adult education in achieving…<\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/article>
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