Newsletter December 2020

The last newsletter of 2020 finds ENCCS well and growing fast. In its 3-month life, ENCCS has been established, organised 3 events with a total of 130 participants, made progress in its supported software and got in contact with key industrial partners, public sector and academia for collaborations in the near future.

Upcoming Training Events

We have planned a busy schedule of training events for the first quarter of next year. The selected training topics correspond well with the areas identified by our training survey, which was conducted in October and November, and we hope these events will provide much needed training in key HPC and AI topics. These are the currently planned events for Q1 2021:

• 12-13 January 2021: Advanced topics with GROMACS
• 9 February 2021: CMake
• 16-17 February 2021: Practical Deep Learning
• 8 March 2021: Bootcamp “AI for Science” - NVIDIA/ENCCS (more information coming soon)
• 21 March 2021: Nek5000 training -ENCCS/ Excellerat/PRACE (more information coming soon)
• 24 March 2021: SME training: AI for beginners in collaboration with RISE (more information coming soon)

Other Events

• 22 January 2021: LUMI roadshow & ENCCS introduction

Industry support

ENCCS has contact with Swedish SMEs and large businesses explaining the benefits that come with scaling up their code and using European HPC infrastructure such as the new LUMI supercomputer. More information is expected during the first quarter of 2021.

Successful Preparatory Access Application

Dr. Roberto Di Remigio and Dr. Jing Gong have successfully secured preparatory access PRACE allocations for ENCCS work on VeloxChem and NEK5000. Learn more below.

• VeloxChem
• NEK5000

Open Calls

• PRACE Preparatory Access: Open Cut-Offs
• PRACE DECI-17: Open Call (Closing Date: 31/01/2021)

Supported Software

GROMACS, VeloxChem and NEK5000 have had significant updates in the past months. See them below.

• GROMACS
• VeloxChem
• NEK5000