From October 13 to 17, the 7th MareNostrum Hackathon took place at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) headquarters, Spain. This annual event, organized by BSC, once again brought together HPC developers and researchers with the aim of helping participants to improve their applications with the guidance of expert mentors.
From June 24 to July 03, our research group participated in the CINECA Open Hackathon with the team BSCBIT, composed of Xavier Sáez, Eduardo Cabrera and Alejandro Soba.
The CINECA Open Hackathon was a virtual multi-day event co-organized by NVIDIA and the OpenACC organization. Launched in 2014, these hackathons are designed to help scientists and developers accelerate and optimise computational codes on GPUs with the support of expert mentors.
On February 12, the French experimental reactor WEST (W-Tungsten Environment in Steady-State Tokamak), one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, set a new world record by sustaining plasma stability for 1337 seconds—over 22 minutes. This milestone, announced by the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), marks a significant step because maintaining plasma stability for extended periods is one of the most significant obstacles in bringing fusion power to commercial viability.
This new record surpasses the previous benchmark set by China’s EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak), which managed to sustain plasma for 1066 seconds on January 20. WEST’s world record has exceeded the recent achievement of the Chinese reactor by 25%.
It is our pleasure to host the 5th Fusion HPC Workshop as an online event on November 21-22, 2024.
This workshop follows the virtual 4th Fusion HPC Workshop, which took place on November 29-30, 2023, and attracted 385 registrations worldwide.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) hosts one of the Advanced Computing Hub (ACH) that EUROfusion has created to improve fusion codes following its European Research Roadmap. These codes are essential for advancing fusion energy research, which is a promising sustainable energy source for the future.
