Author Archives: Henry Strauss

(very long) report on the HPC status conference of the Gauss alliance

From 24th to 26th of September 2025 I attended the HPC status conference of the Gauss alliance in Goettingen, a lovely university city in Lower Saxony (my home area, btw ;-). As promised on Linkedin I will try to summarize the (personal) highlights of this event. But before I start my report let me makeContinue reading “(very long) report on the HPC status conference of the Gauss alliance”

(pretty long) report on the 16th Annual Swiss Conference of the HPC•AI Advisory Council

(pretty long) report on the 16th Annual Swiss Conference of the HPC/AI Advisory Council The event took place from 7th to 9th of April, 2025. in Lugano, in lovely Ticino. (This is the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Sometimes, this caused some problems because my Italian is non-existent, but many people in Lugano speak German, e.g.Continue reading “(pretty long) report on the 16th Annual Swiss Conference of the HPC•AI Advisory Council”

brief report on the spring 2025 meeting of the ZKI working group on supercomputing

This spring the meeting of the ZKI working group on supercomputing took place at the University of Hamburg, on March 25th and 26th ( https://www.conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/585/ ). Reminder: the ZKI („Zentren für Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Lehre und Forschung e.V.“, https://www.zki.de ) is an an association of computer centres at universities. They have thirteen working groups,Continue reading “brief report on the spring 2025 meeting of the ZKI working group on supercomputing”