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Call for submitting HPC Grant Applications KIFU is announcing a call for supporting the supercomputer-related research activities and professional development of PhD students with outstanding scientific achievements, and for encouraging their scientific activities.

Hungarian university among the elaboration of the first European MSc training program The University of Pannonia is also a member of the consortium led by the University of Luxembourg which was hired by the EuroHPC JU to design and implement the first pan- European HPC master’s course pilot program. The courses are expected to begin in August 2022.

From a common denominator to synergy –report on the first HPC User Forum The first HPC User Forum held at the end of November 2021 was an online event creating excellent opportunities for sharing user and operator experience, for colliding opinions, and for outlining visions in the Hungarian HPC community.

TOP500 – The champions maintain their positions The latest – the 58th – edition of the TOP500 list, which ranks supercomputers, has been released but shows no major changes among the front-runners. Fugaku, which debuted in June 2020, has kept its top ranking with its 442-petaflops performance. Are you interested in the others included in the list? Read our report!

We organised our very first HPC Workshop! The first HPC Workshop organised by the Competence Centre took place on 8 November 2021 in the EDU&FUN Digital Adventure Centre in Budapest. The most important lesson learnt by the 26 participants is that a regular exchange of thoughts is highly necessary.

The very first HPC User Forum takes place late November! On November 29, 2021, we will organize our event entitled 'Exploration of interdisciplinary cooperation opportunities (HPC User Forum)', the purpose of which is to present HPC news, promote the exchange of experience and answer questions about our services.

HPC Portrait – Dr. Zoltán Juhász Get to know Dr. Zoltán Juhász, Associate Professor of the University of Pannonia, who supports the work of the HPC Competence Centre with his supercomputing expertise and experience. He will tell us about the high value of human thought as a component in the world of algorithms.

HPC Portrait – Dr. Imre Szeberényi In our third interview, we will be introduced to Dr. Imre Szeberényi, Associate Professor of the Technical University of Budapest, Deputy R&D Director of the IT Centre for Public Administration. We will see how supercomputing has become part of his life and what he thinks of the future of HPC. For more details, click here.