On April 24th, 2026, SURF and the Dutch Hardware Acceleration Network organized the joint HWAcc workshop and sixth edition of the FIRE (FPGA Innovation Research Exchange). Hosted at Wageningen University, this event focused on the theme: "Computational Challenges and High-Performance Technologies for Life Sciences."
The SURF Research Day is the annual event where researchers and research support professionals from across the Netherlands come together to share knowledge, deepen their expertise, and move forward together. At a time when technology is evolving rapidly and challenges are becoming increasingly complex, the need for a place where perspectives come together is growing. Programme manager Carole Grootenboer has been helping shape this event for the fourth year in a row. She shows how the day comes together anew each time.
On Thursday February 5th (2026), HPC and Data representatives from various academic institutions came together in Utrecht to discuss ongoing plans for achieving a federated ecosystem for expertise and solutions.Article by: Wiebe Timmers, HPC Specialist - IT for Research at VU
On October 15th, 2025 SURF organized the first edition of Symposium on Accelerated Computing for Application Workflow (SACAW). The series aims to bring practitioners and scientific researchers from different scientific domains to discuss about accelerating scientific applications. Additionally, the event series and the feedback we receive from our community will help SURF to better support the acceleration of Dutch scientific applications which directly contribute to shaping national infrastructure efforts.
On June 27th, 2025 SURF and the Dutch Hardware Acceleration network organized the fifth edition of HWAcc and FIRE (FPGA Innovation Research Exchange) workshop. The theme of this event was on high-throughput data movement and data abstraction. We had presentations from industrial heavyweights such as NVIDIA and IBM as well as talks from Universities such as TU Delft, TU Darmstadt and University of Groningen.
On December 6th, 2024 SURF and the Dutch Hardware Acceleration network organized the fourth edition of HWAcc and FIRE (FPGA Innovation Research Exchange) workshop. The focus of this event was on recent architectural innovations in HW accelerators, including presentations from industrial heavyweights such as AMD and Samsung as well as talks from innovative startups such as Axelera AI. The workshop also featured two keynote talks from Riken supercomputer center and TU/e on recent developments in processor architecture.
SURF Research Bootcamp presenteert een deep dive in onderzoeksvaardigheden in de vorm van vijf praktische workshops. De informatieve workshops zijn bedoeld voor onderzoekers en onderzoeksondersteuners. Bij alle sessies is een laptop vereist.
On June 27th, 2024, SURF along with Dutch Hardware Acceleration network organized the third edition of FIRE (FPGA Innovation Research Exchange) workshop. The theme of this edition was about tools and hardware acceleration for AI workloads. The event featured a lineup of discussions centered around cutting-edge computing technologies for AI workload acceleration, showcasing multiple industrial players such as Innatera and Groq as well as developers of HW acceleration platforms such as AMD and Altera. In addition, the workshop featured two keynote talks on future computing platforms dedicated to quantum computing as well as cellular automata.
The Julia programming language is being used more and more for high-performance computing and data processing (including on Snellius), due to being a combination of a high-level language with optimized native code generation. It also offers interesting interactive workflows that are not very common when working on high-performance code.
The JuliaCon conference is the annual multi-day conference on everything Julia. JuliaCon 2023 featured over 200 presentation sessions and many workshops. This year Julia conference is held in Eindhoven, 9-13 july 2024. This might be a nice opportunity for current users of Julia for HPC, or those interested in Julia, to get a feel for the Julia language and ecosystem, plus to get in touch with the Julia community. Early bird tickets are now available.
