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#PASC25 is over! It’s time to start preparing for #PASC26 which will take place from June 28 to July 1, 2026. #PASC26 chair Dominik Obrist revealed the theme “Building Trust in Science through HPC Co-Design” and invited all to join him in Bern “the most beautiful city in Switzerland”! #HPC #AI #ML

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Breaking the #HPC silos for sustainable development by @ideas4hpc the Swiss Chapter of WHPC! The minisymposium aims at showing what is to work and be productive in environments that are not open and welcoming at start when you belong to a minority group! #pasc25

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#ML helps to assess coronary artery desease using X-ray angiography! Professor Alberto Figueroa at University of Michigan, #PASC25 Public Lecture entratained the audience with an impressive overview of how a ML approach developed in academia is helping cardiologists with real patients!#HPC #AI

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#pasc25 Interdisciplinary Dialogue - Paola Cinnella, Sorbonne kicked off day two of PASC25 with an important question: how sustainable is sustainability? We need #ML to do science but compute demands are increasing surprisingly or unsurprisingly fast together with power consumption ! #HPC #AI #CFD

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High-Performance Simulation of Matter and Materials, Elisa Molinari Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia #pasc25 Invited Keynote. The challange and opportunity of #exascale in #HPC. The approach to take to face the challange is to focus on developing community codes!

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There is a need to support algorithm development and support, if you do not do that you leave flops on the floor!! Unfortunately, we do not have a model to do that!! Great discussion between Bronson Messer, @ORNL and Nicola Marzari @EPFL and @PSI #pasc25 #HPC

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Yutong Lu, Director of the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, #ISC25 closing keynote speaker clearly and calmly explaining how we are at the verge of a completely new era of supercomputing due to #AI! #HPC

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By 2030 Bjorn Stevens hopes to use advanced compute abd data infrastructures to study and understand how clouds react to warming and how areosols influence the climate systems! #AI #HPC

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Bjorn Stevens, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology #ISC25 Midweek Keynote fascinated the audience with a simulation of the weather on the earth the day the Blue Marble photo was taken, showing also the weather on the dark side of our beautiful planet where no photos are available! #HPC #AI #Climate

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“If people really care about me they will come to me and look for me! This is why it is rewarding to be responsible for the booth. There is where you meet the people who are really interested in you and what you do” Michele De Lorenzi @ethz.ch at the Panel “40 years of ISC” #ISC25 #AI #HPC

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