EUROCC2 Newsletter - January 2024
Updates about systems, events and more - directly from the National Competence Centres in High-Performance Computing (NCCs for HPC).
RISE NLP Group Accesses Leonardo Supercomputer to Work with LLMs
The Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at RISE was awarded 3500 GPU node hours at the EuroHPC JU system Leonardo. They will use LLMs to extract information on extreme climate events from online texts.
The University of Tartu to launch a general HPC course for students
Estonian companies are increasingly looking for employees with experience in using HPC. Employees with an academic background who have previously used supercomputers in their research projects are especially valued because their expertise can enhance the company's competitiveness. To increase the number of future HPC-aware entrepreneurs, NCC Estonia, in cooperation with the University of Tartu, launched a general HPC course in …
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