Great experience at #FantasyBasel 2026. Thanks to everyone who visited us @dmi-hpc.bsky.social and the @dmi.unibas.ch to explore interactive parallel computing experiences with our microCluster: hpc.dmi.unibas.ch/research/mic... Seeing people engage hands-on was a highlight. @cflorina.bsky.social
Florina Ciorba
@cflorina.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. at University of Basel. Fascinated by #parallelism and its manifestation in #HPC and #life. hpc.dmi.unibas.ch
The #HPC group of the University of Base welcomes all students joining the Operating Systems (OS) and High Performance Computing (HPC) courses in this semester! We wish you a good semester start! 🚀 @dmi.unibas.ch @cflorina.bsky.social
Congratulations to Scott Barcomb for successfully completing his Master project titled "Analyzing Parallelism and Performance in PyTorch". His work sheds light on how #PyTorch hides where #parallelism happens. @dmi.unibas.ch
Excited to share that our poster, “Seamless Scaling of Applications Across Programming Models”, has been accepted as an #SC25 ACM SRC Poster. We compare coding complexity and performance of C++, Python, Julia, and DaphneDSL. Looking forward to connecting with the #HPC community. @dmi.unibas.ch
Have you ever wondered what #HPC users are really executing when they run "a.out"? Attend our paper presentation "SIREN: Software Identification and Recognition in #HPC Systems" at #SC25! 🕙 Thursday, November 20, 2025, 10:30am - 10:52am CST 🔗 Details: sc25.conference-program.com/presentation...
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DaphneDSL scales seamlessly; Julia tops performance. Come by our poster “Seamless Scaling of Applications Across Programming Models” at #SC25 in St. Louis, MO! 📍 Second Floor Atrium 🕔 Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 5:15–7:00 PM CST 🔗 sc25.conference-program.com/presentation...
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The #HPC group of the University of Basel welcomes all students joining Foundations of Distributed Systems course (FDS) and Reproducibility and Performance of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies seminar (RePeT) in this semester! We wish you a good semester start! 🚀 @cflorina.bsky.social @unibas.ch
Excited to share our new IEEE Access paper: A Comparative Study of #OpenMP #Scheduling #Algorithm #Selection Strategies We show how combining expert-based & reinforcement learning improves #HPC scheduling, cutting overheads in apps (SPHYNX, STREAM Tri), even beating “Oracle”. tinyurl.com/ExpRLOMP
A Comparative Study of OpenMP Scheduling Algorithm Selection Strategies
Scientific and data science applications are becoming more complex, with increasingly demanding computational and memory requirements during execution. Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems ...
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The next generation of open LLMs should be inclusive, compliant, and multilingual by design. That’s why we @icepfl.bsky.social @ethz.ch @cscsch.bsky.social ) built Apertus.
EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
Big congratulations Dr. Thomas Jakobsche on defending your dissertation: “Improving Transparency & Performance of HPC Systems through MODA"! 👏🎓 A great achievement in #HPC #systemsmonitoring, #observability #dataanalytics. @martinschulz.bsky.social @dmi-hpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
Closing #PASC2025 a great panel discussion on Supercomputing for Sustainable Development (SD) focused on United Nations' 17 SD goals featuring Sally Ellingson, @cflorina.bsky.social, James Hetherington, and Hindumathi Palanisamy #HPC #AI
Excited for our MS5A Breaking #HPC Silos for #Sustainable Development at #PASC25 today Jun 18, 9–11 am, Room 5.0A52. Co-organized w/ M-C. Sawley, M. Girone, M.-G. Giuffreda & me. Speakers: Asal Mehrabi, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Ewa Deelman & Ana Klimovic. #IDEAS4HPC #Sustainability #PASC25
If you are at PASC25 this year, go listen to Reto talk about his master thesis work on rescaling GCsnap2. It was awesome to have Reto with us last year and collaborate so close with the @cflorina.bsky.social and @dmi-hpc.bsky.social to make our tool even more useful!
🎤 Excited to present our paper "Scalable Genomic Context Analysis with GCsnap2 on HPC Clusters" today at PASC25. 📍Room 6.0D13, FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch 📅 17:00, June 16, 2025 📄 Check out the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.02195 @joanampereira.bsky.social @cflorina.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch
#PASC25 kicks off today in Brugg-Windisch! Excited to speak at the MS1G minisymposium (Room 5.2D11) at 11:50 on “Performance & Portability for Sustainable Simulations” with #SPHEXA. Let's discuss #HPC, #portability #sustainability in #ScientificComputing. #UniBasel
DMI-HPC is ready for FANTASY Basel and showcase parallelism with μ-Cluster! 📍Find us at Booth number 307 in Hall 1.2, Messe Basel 📅 May 29-31, 2025 🤝 Meet students from @dmi.unibas.ch, experience live demos, and dive into the world of #ComputerScience
We're excited to share our paper on "An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment", accepted at the 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2025. A preprint is available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.05927 #HPC @cflorina.bsky.social
An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment
High Performance Computing (HPC) systems rely on fixed user-provided estimates of job time limits. These estimates are often inaccurate, resulting in inefficient resource use and the loss of unsaved w...
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🚀 Excited to share that our paper "Scalable Genomic Context Analysis with GCsnap2 on HPC Clusters" has been accepted at PASC25: pasc25.pasc-conference.org! 📄 Check out the preprint on arXiv: doi.org/10.48550/arX... @joanampereira.bsky.social @cflorina.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch
The PASC 2025 Conference
The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
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Great day at #SKAO Council Swiss Science Day in Zurich! Honored to present SPH-EXA entire team’s work with Lucio Mayer & Ruben Cabezon, showcasing advances in #HPC, #SPHEXA, & #EuroHPC for astrophysical simulations. Thanks #SKACH for an inspiring event! #Astrophysics #Cosmology #HPC #Science
A very motivated high school pupil joined our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social team for a few short weeks. Under Reto Krummenacher's supervision, he thrived and used #parallelprogramming and #hpc and to gain #performance! Congratulations Oleh! Thanks Reto! 👏
Gymnasium #Bäumlihof pupil Oleh Chekhovych explored how #Python can speed up the Mandelbrot set computations using #parallelcomputing with #PyOMP during his Profilwochen conducted in our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social. Great work, Oleh! #HPC #Coding #STEM
First time in New Zealand 🇳🇿—what an incredible experience! A land of breathtaking beauty, conserved nature, and a rich culture. From the majestic Southern Alps to turquoise lakes, volcanic harbors, and the tiniest (and rarest) Hector’s dolphins, NZ is truly unique. #NewZealand #Travel #Discovery
At #MulticoreWorld 2025 I explored the balance of Performance ⚖️ Portability ⚖️ Productivity—no one-size-fits-all, no free lunch! Investing in #PerformanceEngineering is key. #OpenMP scheduling #SPHEXA hydrodynamics #DAPHNE: #HPC + #AI pipelines Proud of our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social team & partners!
The HPC group of @unibas.ch welcomes all students joining our High Performance Computing (HPC) and Operating Systems (OS) courses this spring semester! We are excited to meet you all. Get ready for some high performance learning! #HPC #OS @unibas.ch
When researchers from 🇯🇵 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇩🇿 🇺🇦 🇷🇴 🇧🇷 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 🇳🇿 et. al meet - #SCIENCE #HPC #AI happens 🥰😇 Thank you #MulticoreWorld Nicolás Erdödy for bringing us all together! Such a gathering where 🧠s from diff. countries meet & brainstorm scientific solutions - matters! @cflorina.bsky.social @hpcnotes.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce that the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel is now on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing insights into our research in computer science and mathematics, as well as updates from our department. Let’s connect!
Our 1st #RSE ☕️ hr #UDEL @udelaware.bsky.social Almost a dream come true 😇 Been wishing to form such #RSE focused groups for a while now. Thanks to #NSF's new grant, we were able to bring students from diff. disciplines under 1 roof! More such activities to follow! NSF DARSE sites.udel.edu/darse/
Congratulations to Sascha Maibach on completing his BSc thesis: Verification and Validation of the OpenMP Standard Functionality with Focus on Scheduling Clauses! Shedding light on the challenges of testing OpenMP scheduling and how to validate its functionalities. #HPC #OpenMP #ParallelComputing
📣 As of January 2025, researchers in Switzerland can participate in (almost all) calls for proposals of Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme. This means that they can submit project proposals in the role of coordinator. 🧪🧬🔬🔭 www.horizon-europe.ch #HorizonEurope #Science #Innovation
Just in time for the winter holidays 😊 Thanks @etp4hpc.bsky.social 👏
It’s an event that occurs only every 2 years! The ETP4HPC team is proud to announce that the ETP4HPC’s Strategic Research Agenda 6 - SRA6 - is out! It is the work of dozens of experts from our members & provides a snapshot of the 🇪🇺 HPC technology developments and NEEDS etp4hpc.eu/strategic-re...