News archive 2025
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
ASHPC26 takes place on 8-10 March 2026 in Vienna, Austria. [more...]
30.12.2025
Training recap: AI Hackathon 2025
Applied AI meets HPC – collaboration, mentoring, and real-world problem solving. [more...]
29.12.2025
Research highlight: Flying deserts
Tracking hot air masses from the Sahara to Europe and the science behind a little-known phenomenon. [more...]
16.12.2025
Research highlight: Studying upward lightning with AI and supercomputing
Lightning is usually triggered inside a cloud and strikes downward – but there is a lesser-known opposite phenomenon. At the University of Innsbruck, Isabell Stucke is investigating how it works. [more...]
05.12.2025
MUSICA helps upgrade TU Wien’s research matrix
Austria’s new flagship supercomputer MUSICA has enabled the training of a Large Language Model that analyzes, groups, and labels all research fields at TU Wien. [more...]
20.11.2025
“We can bring any computer to its knees”
Interview with Markus Oppel – Senior Scientist for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Vienna. [more...]
11.11.2025
Leh Indian Glaciology Summer School (LIGSS-2025)
Local graduate students and early-career researchers gain a strong foundation in climatology and glaciology. [more...]
08.08.2025
Training recap: EuroCC bootcamps 2025
Four bootcamps, over 600 participants, a large international collaboration – this training season broke new records. [more...]
29.07.2025
EVITA project launches in Barcelona to strengthen Europe’s HPC training landscape. [more...]
17.07.2025
VSC to ASC: Statement on the new name
Vienna Scientific Cluster renamed to Austrian Scientific Computing. [more...]
08.07.2025
EVITA: EuroHPC Virtual Training Academy
VSC joins new EU project EVITA to help standardize Europe’s HPC training. [more...]
09.06.2025
Researchers based in Austria are invited to apply for access to the Italian supercomputer LEONARDO. Cut-off date: 16 June 2025. [more...]
03.06.2025
AI tool for music production trained on VSC
Austrian startup Beat Shaper used the VSC-5 supercomputer to train 500 models simultaneously. [more...]
28.05.2025
AI-based forecasting for safer, greener shipping
Greek startup AlongRoute developed an AI model to predict wave heights in seas and oceans with high precision — powered by Austria’s VSC supercomputer. [more...]
30.04.2025
Accelerating quantum simulations with MATLAB on VSC
MATLAB training on the Vienna Scientific Cluster helps accelerate code and achieve progress in quantum many-body research. [more...]
08.04.2025
Climate modeling with HPC – access for students
Meteorology students at the University of Vienna get introduced to high-performance computing with the VSC supercomputer. [more...]
22.03.2025
AI Factory Austria (AI:AT) to boost national AI ecosystem
Austria has been selected as one of the hosts for the next generation of AI Factories in Europe. [more...]
12.03.2025
VSC adapts to user needs – Interview with Jan Zabloudil
Senior System Administrator Jan Zabloudil talks about the work of the VSC support team and next steps of the development of the VSC systems. [more...]
05.02.2025
Research highlight: The metal that does not expand
Breakthrough in materials research: an alloy of several metals shows practically no thermal expansion over an extremely large temperature interval. [more...]
03.02.2025
Supercomputing and AI – Interview with Andreas Rauber
Head of VSC Andreas Rauber talks about the new supercomputer MUSICA, opportunities of HPC, and challenges of operating an HPC system. [more...]
10.01.2025
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2025 – ASHPC25
ASHPC25 will take place on May 19-22, 2025 in Slovenia. [more...]
18.11.2024