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New insight into how brain activity changes the 3D structure of DNA
ASC users at the Medical University of Innsbruck have discovered that the spatial organization of DNA within the cell nucleus changes when neurons in the cerebral cortex are activated. [more...]
Training recap: European Agentic AI Bootcamp 2026
European HPC centers, AI Factories, OpenACC, and NVIDIA bring together over 250 participants for hands-on AI agent development. [more...]
Supercomputer MUSICA goes into operation
Austria's most powerful supercomputer advances research, AI development, and innovation. [more...]
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
Recap of ASHPC26. [more...]
The highlights of infrastructure updates, HPC usage, and training at Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC). [more...]
Training recap: AI Hackathon 2025
Applied AI meets HPC – collaboration, mentoring, and real-world problem solving. [more...]
Research highlight: Flying deserts
Tracking hot air masses from the Sahara to Europe and the science behind a little-known phenomenon. [more...]
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...]
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...]
“We can bring any computer to its knees”
Interview with Markus Oppel – Senior Scientist for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Vienna. [more...]
Leh Indian Glaciology Summer School (LIGSS-2025)
Local graduate students and early-career researchers gain a strong foundation in climatology and glaciology. [more...]
Training recap: EuroCC bootcamps 2025
Four bootcamps, over 600 participants, a large international collaboration – this training season broke new records. [more...]
VSC to ASC: Statement on the new name
Vienna Scientific Cluster renamed to Austrian Scientific Computing. [more...]
EVITA: EuroHPC Virtual Training Academy
VSC joins new EU project EVITA to help standardize Europe’s HPC training. [more...]
AI tool for music production trained on VSC
Austrian startup Beat Shaper used the VSC-5 supercomputer to train 500 models simultaneously. [more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
The Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC) is featured on the list of key players in Austria’s AI ecosystem. [more...]
Austria’s new supercomputer ranks among the fastest in the world. [more...]
Supercomputing in research and industry: Austria’s master plan
Interview with a member of the VSC consortium Christoph Dellago (University of Vienna) about the role of supercomputing and artificial intelligence for academia and industry. [more...]
Training at VSC – Interview with Simeon Harrison
HPC and AI Trainer Simeon Harrison talks about courses provided at the Vienna Scientific Cluster for academia, industry, and the public sector. [more...]
From Mainframe to Exascale – Interview with Claudia Blaas-Schenner
Head of training at VSC Claudia Blaas-Schenner talks about 30 years of supercomputing at TU Wien, training at the Vienna Scientific Cluster, and offers some tips for a career in HPC. [more...]
PRACE MOOCs – free online courses
MOOCs on various topics: Supercomputing ..... Big Data
PRACE has developed several Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that are hosted on the Future Learn Platform. All MOOCs are free... [more...]
EuroHPC Access – Call for Proposals – apply for HPC computing time
Benchmark Access, Development Access, Regular Access, and Extreme Scale Access
Great opportunity to get HPC Access on the EuroHPC Systems.... [more...]
Free Intel® Software Development Tools
Intel® oneAPI Toolkits – Free for All Developers
Intel® oneAPI Toolkits are the next generation of standards-based Intel® Software Development Tools for building applications across diverse architectures.
All Intel® oneAPI Toolkits products are available at no cost... [more...]