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  1. A reflection on SXSW24 by SURF

    SXSW treated us nicely this year and inspired us with lots of new ideas and insights. Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, South by South West (SXSW) is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. The event features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen where diverse topics and people meet.  This year, SURF was represented by three colleagues, Thijs van der Horst, Mark Cole & myself, and we were accompanied by many more Dutch R&E organisations, like Hogeschool Inholland, Hogeschool Utrecht, ROC Mondriaan & Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam. Even our Minister for Digitalisation, Alexandra van Huffelen, took part in the event. We immersed ourselves in an 8-day program full of keynotes, featured sessions, workshops and experiences. Here are a couple of takeaways we would like to share with you, out of over 4500 sessions. 

  2. FIRE (FPGA Innovation Research Exchange) - Second Edition

    On December 6th, 2023, SURF in Utrecht successfully organized the second edition of FIRE FPGA symposium along with the hardware acceleration community. This is the continuation of the “FIRE: FPGA Innovation Research Exchange“ event series. The focus of this event was on application development using HW-SW co-design approaches. The event addressed the challenge of optimizing applications on heterogeneous CPU-accelerator systems to achieve full system optimization.   We had a number of speakers from industry, academia and research institutes. In addition, we organized a session with 5-minute flash presentations, where many researchers and companies presented their innovations and products at a high pace to engender collaboration and information exchange. 

  3. Advanced computing gebruikersdag (donderdag 7 December)

    Ontdek trends en kom in contact met andere vakgenoten in HPC, AI, Machine Learning, Quantum en Data Science op 7 december in het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam. De toegang is gratis.

  4. FIRE (FPGA Innovation Research Exchange)

    Hardware architecture improvements had relied on Moore's law and Dennard scaling for some decades. According to Moore's prediction, the number of transistors on a chip doubles almost every 18 months. According to Dennard scaling, as transistors become smaller, their power density stays constant. These allowed manufacturers to raise clock frequencies without significantly increasing overall circuit power consumption. Nowadays, Moore’s law is not happening as predicted, and Dennard scaling law is broken down. To address this, (homogeneous) multi-processors were invented, and opened a new era for parallel processing to gain better performance with a reasonable increase in power consumption. However, homogeneous multi-processors cannot keep up with high-demand application requirements such as low power, energy efficiency, and high performance. 

  5. The epistemology of machine learning in science: a panel at SURF Research Day 2023

    In the ever-evolving realm of scientific research, the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been like the discovery of a new frontier. Yet, it isn't without its hurdles. This was a central topic during our panel session at SURF Research Day 2023, where we delved into the intricacies of employing machine learning as a research methodology.

  6. Making scientific research on Dutch National Supercomputer energy efficient

    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 To know more, read the publication : https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en131/special/making-scientific-research-on…

  7. What is quantum key distribution?

    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.

  8. Unlocking the Potential of Responsible AI in Research: Share Your Insights in Our 10-Minute Survey

    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!

  9. Workshop Personal Health Train (PHT) 24 Mei (SURF Research Bootcamp)

    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. 

  10. EuroHPC: Traditional approaches are running out of steam!

    "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.