(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”

AI for Digital Pathology

At the Machine Learning in Healthcare Summit in July 2021 there was a fascinating presentation ‘ AI in Digital Pathology’ given by Dr. Anne Martel https://lnkd.in/dSygrNR on using machine learning for diagnosing cancer from medical images. It was a continuation of what I saw in November 2018 at a ML conference in Toronto, Canada. If you think thatContinue reading “AI for Digital Pathology”

How NICE DCV enables doob Metaverses

doob Metaverses offer virtual interactive 3D meetings in a multitude of settings for remote users attending from everywhere. The seamless high-end experience is created with the NICE DCV high-end remote desktop technology. Listen in to our interview about the unique NICE DCV use case with doob CEO and Founder Vladimir Puhalac conducted with Terry FisherContinue reading “How NICE DCV enables doob Metaverses”

Natural Language Processing using Nvidia NeMo

The latest information is at this GitHub repo. The lead for this project is alan.heirich@gmail.com and the end user platform in his intent is a TV – side Raspberry PI implementing a model to do english – spanish translation on the fly.  The critical part is model training on a large VCTK corpus provided byContinue reading “Natural Language Processing using Nvidia NeMo”

Surrogate Models integrating an HPC Solver and a Machine Learning Component

Surrogate models consist of a Machine Learning model such as a deep neural network that is trained on data previously calculated by a numerical simulation program. This could be a Computational Fluid Dynamics or a FEM application. Assuming the deep neural network is able to generalize well on a broad range of practical cases, thenContinue reading “Surrogate Models integrating an HPC Solver and a Machine Learning Component”

Solving with Python and numpy

I believe it is worth spending some effort to sharpen my programming skills independently of any application.  A good path is provided by toptal and by Codility : the challenges are mathematical problems that can be programmed in several languages, and I choose Python and numpy. What follows is the one that kept me busyContinue reading “Solving with Python and numpy”

Biography

Olivier Schreiber has been a High Performance Computing Applications Engineer atHP, SGI and HPE since 2001 and contracted at SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and Google X.Before that, he was at Boeing North American and McDonnell Douglasas a Principal Engineer/Scientist/Computing Specialist.Earlier, he was a Nastran developer at The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation.Olivier holds an MS and PhD in AerospaceContinue reading “Biography”

Newsletters of interest

1)https://www.nextplatform.com/ 2)https://www.hpcwire.com/ 3)http://primeurmagazine.com/contentsweekly20201109.htmlHenry has a 4 week free trial–Could could round-robin. 4)Good source of information for HPE for example:https://www.thelayoff.com/hp-enterprise 5)https://www.deeplearning.ai/thebatch/ 6)https://www.datanami.com/another newsletter that might be interesting about AI, data analytics, Big datait‘s from Tabor Communications where HPCwire and also EnterpriseAI come from 7)https://www.enterpriseai.news/ 8)https://www.theregister.com/ 9)https://www.techradar.com/news 10)https://wikibon.com/ 11)https://insidehpc.com/ 12)http://g2minc.com/ 13)https://openhpc.community/news/