Our researcher João Barbosa gave a presentation about the Deucalion Supercomputer and participated in a roundtable about the operational RNCA centers at this year’s RNCA Meeting, on November 15, in Lisbon, Portugal.

MACC’s researchers André Pereira and João Barbosa were invited by the Portuguese Navy to teach a three-day training course about High-Performance Computing. This training course took place at the Instituto Hidrográfico in Lisbon, between October 12 to 14, 2022.

Our researcher João Barbosa was invited by the Portuguese Navy to visit the tenth edition of REPMUS, which took place between September 12-22 in Tróia, Portugal.

This year’s edition of MUG: MACC User Group Workshop, organized by MACC, gathered around 70 people, from experts to users and potential users, to discuss topics related to HPC in Portugal and Europe, such as the future of HPC, Advanced Computing, Sustainability, and Social, Economic and Educational challenges. The event took place on July 7 and 8 at the Crowne Plaza hotel, in Porto, Portugal.

On June 13, MACC’s coordinator, Rui Carlos Oliveira, went to Kajaani, in Finland, to attend the inauguration of the European High Performance Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer, LUMI.

MACC participated in this year’s edition of Jornadas da Computação Científica, an annual meeting for the users of advanced computing, communication and other digital services platforms

MACC participated in Encontro Ciência 2022, an annual meeting dedicated to science, technology, and innovation in Portugal.

The MACC team participated, between 5 and 6 May 2022, in the PRACE-6IP All-Hands Meeting, which took place in Vienna, Austria.

The MACC is a member of the National Network for Advanced Computing, which aims to support the academic and business communities in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) field. The main goal is to ensure the community’s access to computational resources capable of promoting innovation in all areas of the science and business domain, thus accelerating the finding and development of new products or scientific breakthroughs.

The Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) participated in a GPU programming Bootcamp, organized by the Portuguese EuroCC National Center of Competence, in collaboration with NVIDIA and OpenACC.org. The event was held virtually, between April 13th and 14th.

The project HPC4PE- “High Performance Computing for Profile Extrusion” is one of the two Portuguese initiatives accepted within the scope of the second FF4EuroHPC Open Call for experiment proposals, which took place between June and September, 2021.

On January 19, 2022, Manuel Heitor, the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), accompanied by Rui Oliveira, Director of Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC/FCT), visited the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), that hosts Jewels, the most powerful European supercomputer.

The Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) welcomed Sustainable HPC, a new project focused on making the operation of supercomputing more sustainable.

The training course “Introduction to HPC Programming Environment”, organized by the Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC), was held virtually from the 22nd to the 24th of November, 2021.

“LOOM: Interweaving Tightly Coupled Visualization and Numeric Simulation Framework” is the title of the paper presented by The Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) at ISAV 2021.

The PRACE Autumn School 2021 will bring together undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in different disciplines of scientific computing.

The Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) participates in the RNCA 2021 Meeting, which was held virtually, between 28 and 30 September. The participation of MACC was focused on the two supercomputers: Bob and Deucalion.

João Barbosa, researcher at MACC, presented at the 3rd LUMI/EuroHPC JU Systems Roadshow the past, present, and future of MACC. The presentation focused on the beginning of MACC, the current initiatives to bring researchers to the HPC world, including training and workshops, and the future with the new EuroHPC petascale Deucalion supercomputer.

Supercomputers are systems with huge data processing capacity, capable of performing millions of billions of calculations per second and solving complex problems, in fields like engineering and science. However, this complex hardware requires specific facilities and cooling systems, using up significant amounts of power.

The “Minho Manifesto on European HPC for Science and Innovation” was presented on 18 June during the High-Level Roundtable “High-Performance Computing for Science and Innovation – Bringing together the five new European HPC petascale systems”, which took place under the scope of the Portuguese Presidency