Research Area Scientific Computing

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Events

December 7, 2021 at 17:00: Mr. Benjamin Hirzinger, PhD will receive the Thesis Award 2021 of the Research Area Scientific Computing for his thesis "Contributions to Modeling and Reliability Assessment Strategies in Railway Bridge Dynamics" submitted to the Faculty of Engineering Sciences. Due to CoV-precautions, the ceremony will take place online, at a  BigBlueButton-room - please feel free to attend.  

May 31 – June 2, 2022: The Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2022 - ASHPC22 will take place at the Seeblickhotel Grundlsee (AT) and online, preceded by the co-located EuroHPC Access and Hands-On  workshop. ASHPC22 will continue the tradition of the annual Austrian HPC Meetings (2015 – 2020) and the first Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting (2021): Bringing together scientists and technicians with a background and interest in supercomputing. Registration & call for abstracts OPEN, further information at  ashpc.at

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PRACE Autumn School 2021 - GPU programming with CUDA, from October 4 – 7 Oct, 2021 in Innsbruck, registration OPEN! Organized by the Research Area Scientific Computing and the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), the school addresses participants from all scientific fields, communicating necessary programming paradigms and guiding towards correct and efficient code for GPUs.   

eScience 2021
From September 21-23, 2021 the eScience 2021 conference will take place in Innsbruck. The conference brings together leading interdisciplinary research communities, developers and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies.

 

Austrian HPC Meetings - AHPC

Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2021 - ASHPC21
The Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2021 - ASHPC21, was held online May 31 - June 2, in the tradition of AHPC Meetings, organized by the Slovenian consortium for high performance computing (SLING) and the Institute of Information Science in Maribor (IZUM), Sloveniain cooperation with the Research Area Scientific Computing in Innsbruck, Austriaand the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), Austria.

Austrian HPC Meeting 2020 - AHPC20
The Austrian HPC Meeting 2019 - AHPC20 was held February 19-22, 2020 in Klosterneuburg. It was organized by the Institute of Science and Technology Austriain cooperation with the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC).
 

Austrian HPC Meeting 2019 - AHPC19
The Austrian HPC Meeting 2019 was held February 25-27, 2019, at the Seeblickhotel-Grundlsee, Austria. It was organized by the University of Graz.
 

Austrian HPC Meeting 2018 - AHPC18
The AHPC18 Meeting was held February 19-21, 2018 at Courtyard Merriott in Linz, Austria. It was organized by groups from JKU, Linz and RISC Software GmbH, Hagenberg in close cooperation with the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), which also sponsored the event.

Austrian HPC Meeting 2017 - AHPC17
The AHPC17 Meeting was held March 1-3, 2017 at Seeblickhotel-Grundlsee, Austria. It was organized by the Research Area Scientific Computing of the University of Innsbruck in close cooperation with the VSC (Vienna Scientific Cluster).

Austrian HPC Meeting 2016 - AHPC16
The AHPC16 Meeting 2016 was held February 22–24, 2016 at the Seeblickhotel-Grundlsee, Austria. It was organized by the VSC (Vienna Scientific Cluster) and ACSC (Austrian Center for Scientific Computing).
 

Austrian HPC Meeting 2015 - AHPC15
The AHPC15 aimed at bringing together scientists and technicians with a background of and interest in scientific computing. It took place 15-20 March, 2015 in the Alpine research center of Obergurgl.
 

Miscellaneous

PRACE Winter School 2020 - GPU Programming with CUDA
A part of this training course took place March 9, 2020 at the Campus Technik of the Unversity of Innsbruck. The course was organized by the Research Area Scientific Computing, University of Innsbruck and the VSC Research Center, TU Wien.

"On coin tosses, atoms and forest fires" - talk by Prof. Dr. Martin Hairer
The talk was held on Monday, September 23, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the University of Innsbruck in the Kaiser-Leopold-Saal (Karl-Rahner-Platz 3). Martin Hairer is professor of mathematics at Imperial College London. In 2014 he was awarded the Fields Medal, one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive. For more information please download the flyer.

SciCADE 2019
The International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations was hosted by the University of Innsbruck, Austria, July 22 - 26, 2019.
 

Fest der Wissenschaft
The Science Festival tool place June 14 -16, 2019 in the city center of Innsbruck.
 
 

Campus-Tage Technik
The Campus Technik was open to the public April 26-27, 2019 with the opportunity to visit laboratories and to gain insight into the work of scientists.
 

RoboCup Junior Campus-Tage Technik
 
 
 

Visual Interaction Lab 1669
The lab uses the latest technology to make effective visualization possible. The opening took place November 28, 2018 at 5p.m. at the Campus Technik of the University of Innsbruck.
 

Supercomputer LEO 4
The opening of the supercomputer LEO 4took place January 24, 2019 at the Campus Technik of the University of Innsbruck.
 

MACH-2 Supercomputer:
February 2018: Openingof the MACH-2 supercomputerat the JKU.
 
 

Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC)
VSC-3 wins sustainability award 2016.
 
 

Austria joined PRACE(Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) as member:
- PRACE - Call for Proposals
- Austria joined PRACE on July 11, 2018
- PRACE in Austria (aconet)

Zukunftsplattform Obergurgl 2015
From November 19th to 21st 2015 the research areas, platforms and centers of the University of Innsbruck presented latest developments and future perspectives in Obergurgl.
 

General Infos

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Video: Supercomputer: Wie die Forschung von Hochleistungsrechnern profitiert(How research profits from high performance computing)
The Research Area Scientific Computing encompasses all activities in terms of high performance computing. This concerns, among others, the fields of astronomy, climate research as well as medicine and archeology.