Dr. Guy Lonsdale, CEO of scapos, joins EXCELLERAT P2’s Sophia Honisch to discuss the progress of the FFplus project—one year after its launch. With over 25 years of experience in high-performance computing (HPC) and a leading role in multiple EU initiatives, Guy offers deep insights into how FFplus is supporting SMEs in adopting HPC and AI technologies across Europe.They explore key topics such as the cascade funding mechanism, real-world success stories from SMEs, the emerging role of AI Factories, and how National Competence Centres (NCCs) are contributing to Europe's innovation ecosystem. Guy also shares his outlook on the next decade of HPC and AI in industrial applications.Interview and editing: Sophia Honisch, Matvey Fridman, HLRS——————This episode was produced by EXCELLERAT, the European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications. We give supercomputing training and support to businesses, academia and public administration.The Supercomputing in Europe podcast is made possible with funding from the European Commission and specifically from EuroHPC JU, the joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe.Learn more about the EuroCC and the Centres of Excellence ecosystem on https://hpc-portal.eu/.
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Broadening HPC training - Simon Wong
This episode’s guest is Simon Wong who is the Education and Training Programme Manager and senior computational scientist at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing.He talks about the evolution of HPC training and the network of training centres all over Europe.Interview/editing/mixing: Apostolos Vasileiadis (ENCCS, RISE)Learn more about the project HPC Spectra on https://www.hpc-spectra.---The Supercomputing in Europe podcast is made possible with funding from the European Commission and specifically from EuroHPC JU, the joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe.The podcast is sustained by the EuroCC project and the Centres of Excellence network that provide supercomputing training and support for industry, academia and public administration for free. You can find more information on https://hpc-portal.eu/
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MultiXscale - How open-source powers Europe’s HPC community
In this episode Jothi Blontrock discusses with Kenneth Hoste and Lara Peeters from the HPC team at Ghent University in Belgium about their work in the Centre of Excellence MultiXscale and EESSI, the goal of which is to build a common stack of scientific software installations for HPC systems and beyond, including laptops, personal workstations and cloud infrastructure.Interview: Jothi BlontrockEditing/mixing: Rafal Al-Tekreeti----This episode is produced by EuroCC Belgium the HPC National Competence Centre in Belgium. EuroCC Belgium provides supercomputing training and support to businesses, academia and public administration. For more information please visit our website https://www.enccb.be. The Supercomputing in Europe podcast is made possible with funding from the European Comission and specifically from EuroHPC JU, the joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe.The podcast is sustained by the EuroCC project, a network of National Competence Centres in Europe to provide supercomputing training and support for industry, academia and public administration for free. If you want to learn more or contact your local competence centre, please visit https://www.eurocc-access.eu.
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Europe’s AI Factories - Rafal Duczmal
What are Europe’s AI Factories?Today´s guest is Rafal Duczmal, who is the chair of the Governing Board of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. He talks about the new AI Factories initiative by the European Commission, Europe’s position during this AI proliferation and the future of AI development in Europe.Interview/editing: Apostolos Vasileiadis (ENCCS/MIMER AI Factory, RISE)----The Supercomputing in Europe podcast is made possible with funding from the European Commission and specifically from EuroHPC JU, the joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe.The podcast is sustained by the EuroCC and the Centres of Excellence network. They provide supercomputing training and support for industry, academia and public administration.
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Brendan McGinty - Supercomputing in industrial setting
This episode's guest is Brendan McGinty, the Director of Industry at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The discussion took place during the EuroHPC Summit in Krakow, Poland. We talked about understanding industrial HPC needs, engaging research staff with high-end corporate work and success stories from across the Atlantic.----Interview and editing: Apostolos Vasileiadis (ENCCS, RISE)This episode was brought to you by ENCCS, the EuroCC National Competence Centre in Sweden. ENCCS gives supercomputing training and support to businesses, academia and public administration. The Supercomputing in Europe podcast is made possible with funding from the European Commission and specifically from EuroHPC JU, the joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe.The podcast is sustained by the EuroCC project and the Centres of Excellence network. We provide supercomputing training and support for industry, academia and public administration. You can find more information and all relevant links in the show notes.
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