Energy is an emerging topic in the scientific computing ecosystem and is becoming a design point for future research. Science relies increasingly on digital research computing as a tool for analysis and experimentation. The exponential increase in demand for computing means that classically designed ICT infrastructure will soon become unsustainable in terms of its energy footprint. We need to experiment with energy-efficient methods, tools, algorithms and hardware technologies. In the Netherlands, we are working towards zero energy waste for high-performance computing (HPC) applications on the national supercomputer “Snellius”. It involves discussing challenges, proposing new research directions, finding opportunities to engage the user community, and taking steps for the responsible use of software in research.
Traditionally, supercomputing focuses on improving latency or throughput, which are of massive importance for applications such as drug discovery or climate simulations. For many decades we developed infrastructure, algorithms, and software tools to obtain improvements. Given the rapid increase in energy usage for ICT services, further emphasised by the imminent energy crisis, it is a priority to understand and optimise the energy consumption of research computing applications
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SURF is currently exploring the future potential of a multitude of applications of quantum technologies in the realm of computation and networking. One of those technologies is quantum key distribution (QKD). In this article we will explore what QKD, and how it can solve some of the problems on the technological horizon.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the research landscape, offering new methodologies and tools that have the potential to greatly enhance scientific discoveries. However, the adoption of AI in research also brings its own set of challenges, requiring new skills and a deep understanding of responsible AI practices. We need your insights to help us navigate this exciting yet complex field. Help us by filling in our 10-minute survey on responsible AI in research!
Samen met de Universiteit Maastricht en het MUMC organiseert SURF op 24 mei de SURF Research Bootcamp. De bootcamp wordt georganiseerd voor onderzoekers en onderzoeksondersteunend personeel. Een onderdeel van de bootcamp is een workshop over het Personal Health Train concept. Een mooie kans om dit concept zelf uit te proberen.
"Long-term society’s willingness to invest in HPC will depend on our ability to solve the most important societal and scientific problems, not in the ability to execute a subset of calculations that scale well to a billion of cores in a single run"
To solve challenges on a global scale, we need access to extraordinary computing capacity but we also need to build expertise, develop new approaches, explore new applications, etc. EuroHPC, based in Luxembourg, aims to achieve this in the near-term future. Its objective is to establish European leadership in HPC by jointly procuring exascale & pre-exascale supercomputers, managing open calls for application development and funding research and education collaboration across Europe.
On March 16, a variety of SURFer’s toured the Retro Future gallery at Evoluon. Additionally, the group was able to enjoy a workshop by Next Nature on their unique model of the Pyramid of Technology. The Pyramid of Technology is now available as a workshop at SURF as a resource for teams to try and experiment with. This workshop would guide participants through seeing and understanding technologies in a different way while generating new ideas. With the help of this workshop, you learn to visualize how technology becomes nature and what we can learn from that.
The future is not a destination –
it’s [about] practicing possible futures.
It’s about rehearsing different strategic options.
There is no shortage of talk about the future at SURF. The Copenhagen Institute for future studies was welcomed to SURF on February 28th and 29th to introduce applied strategic forecasting to a variety of SURF participants. The scenarios, skills and ideas built in the training would create new ways of thinking about the future as a tool and offer models to use that tool. The trainers, Simon Fuglsang Østergaard and Sofie Hvitved were there to guide the process.
