On October 27–28, the 4th Annual Meeting of EUROfusion HPC Advanced Computing Hubs (ACHs) took place in Garching (Germany), hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). Continuing the tradition of this annual event, the meeting brought together researchers from the different European ACHs, including our center, to present their latest work, exchange experiences, and discuss common challenges in high-performance computing for fusion research.
On May 19, the Fusion Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) welcomed around 60 participants from the 23rd Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC-23) for a visit to our centre’s facilities.
On January 30th, our group welcomed researchers from the Superconducting Materials and Functional Nanoengineered Structures Group (SUMAN) at ICMAB-CSIC. The visit was part of ICMAB’s annual initiative to organize group excursions to research centers of interest in their field, and this year’s destination was Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), motivated by ongoing collaborations with our group.
On November 25–26, the 3rd Annual Meeting of EUROfusion HPC ACHs took place in Lausanne (Switzerland), hosted by EPFL, further consolidating the series of yearly gatherings. The BSC-CIEMAT ACH was represented by fusion group members Alejandro Soba, Federico Cipolletta, Augusto Maidana and Xavier Sáez, together with Joan Vinyals from the Best Practices for Performance and Portability (BPPP) group, actively contributing to the discussions and technical exchange throughout the event. This third edition has confirmed that this yearly event among ACHs has been an important step toward sharing results, lessons learned, and jointly planning future work.
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.