In the past years, there have been several European projects that reflect how the government wants to approach HPC. First, there was PRACE, DEISA, and now EuroCC. How do you see this evolve in the future?
LUMI is one of the pan-European pre-exascale supercomputers. It is also the fastest supercomputer in Europe (the Top500 list published in May 2023) and the third fastest globally.
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The hosting agreement was signed in Luxembourg for the acquisition and operation of a quantum computer by the international LUMI-Q consortium. It will be installed at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava, Czechia, in 2024 and become the first Czech quantum computer, which will also be available to the European research community.
Prof. Dirk Valkenborg is the Programme director of the data science trajectory in the Master of Statistics & Data Science at UHasselt. He teaches a course on Machine Learning in this programme, and during this course, his students use the supercomputing infrastructure of The Flemish Computer Center. We sat down with Prof. Valkenborg to ask him why he is so keen on getting his students enthusiastic about working with a supercomputer.
This four-day on-site (Warsaw, Poland) and online course serve as a general comprehensive introduction to the LUMI architecture and programming environment. It will include lessons about compiling and using software, programming models (HIP and OpenMP offload), porting, executing jobs, and optimizing applications to run on AMD MI250X. After the course, you will be able to work efficiently on both the CPU (LUMI-C) as well as GPU partition (LUMI-G).
The C++ programming language is a systems-level language pervasive in many areas including scientific computing. This complex language provides users with a multitude of approaches to solving complex tasks, but not all programming paradigms or approaches are equal in terms of performance.
