Florina Ciorba
cflorina.bsky.social
Florina Ciorba
@cflorina.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. at University of Basel.
Fascinated by #parallelism and its manifestation in #HPC and #life.
hpc.dmi.unibas.ch
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The #HPC group of the University of Basel welcomes all students joining Foundations of Distributed Systems course (FDS) and Reproducibility and Performance of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies seminar (RePeT) in this semester!

We wish you a good semester start! 🚀

@cflorina.bsky.social
@unibas.ch
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Excited to share our new IEEE Access paper: A Comparative Study of #OpenMP #Scheduling #Algorithm #Selection Strategies

We show how combining expert-based & reinforcement learning improves #HPC scheduling, cutting overheads in apps (SPHYNX, STREAM Tri), even beating “Oracle”.

tinyurl.com/ExpRLOMP
A Comparative Study of OpenMP Scheduling Algorithm Selection Strategies
Scientific and data science applications are becoming more complex, with increasingly demanding computational and memory requirements during execution. Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems ...
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September 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The next generation of open LLMs should be inclusive, compliant, and multilingual by design. That’s why we @icepfl.bsky.social @ethz.ch @cscsch.bsky.social ) built Apertus.
EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.

Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
September 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Big congratulations Dr. Thomas Jakobsche on defending your dissertation: “Improving Transparency & Performance of HPC Systems through MODA"! 👏🎓 A great achievement in #HPC #systemsmonitoring, #observability #dataanalytics. @martinschulz.bsky.social
@dmi-hpc.bsky.social @dmi.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
August 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Closing #PASC2025 a great panel discussion on Supercomputing for Sustainable Development (SD) focused on United Nations' 17 SD goals featuring Sally Ellingson, @cflorina.bsky.social, James Hetherington, and Hindumathi Palanisamy #HPC #AI
June 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Excited for our MS5A Breaking #HPC Silos for #Sustainable Development at #PASC25 today Jun 18, 9–11 am, Room 5.0A52.

Co-organized w/ M-C. Sawley, M. Girone, M.-G. Giuffreda & me.

Speakers: Asal Mehrabi, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Ewa Deelman & Ana Klimovic.

#IDEAS4HPC #Sustainability #PASC25
June 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Great turnout at our MS4F #ML Support for the Lifetime of Software minisymposium at #PASC25, co-organized with H. Menon & K. Parasyris!

Thanks O. Simsek, E. Vatai, T. Islam & P. Delgado for excellent talks, and the audience for great Qs.

Looking forward to ML4SW @ #PASC26!

#HPC #AI #ScientificSw
June 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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If you are at PASC25 this year, go listen to Reto talk about his master thesis work on rescaling GCsnap2. It was awesome to have Reto with us last year and collaborate so close with the @cflorina.bsky.social and @dmi-hpc.bsky.social to make our tool even more useful!
June 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#PASC25 kicks off today in Brugg-Windisch!
Excited to speak at the MS1G minisymposium (Room 5.2D11) at 11:50 on “Performance & Portability for Sustainable Simulations” with #SPHEXA. Let's discuss #HPC, #portability #sustainability in #ScientificComputing.
#UniBasel
June 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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DMI-HPC is ready for FANTASY Basel and showcase parallelism with μ-Cluster!

📍Find us at Booth number 307 in Hall 1.2, Messe Basel
📅 May 29-31, 2025
🤝 Meet students from @dmi.unibas.ch, experience live demos, and dive into the world of #ComputerScience
May 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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We're excited to share our paper on "An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment", accepted at the 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2025. A preprint is available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.05927
#HPC @cflorina.bsky.social
An Autonomy Loop for Dynamic HPC Job Time Limit Adjustment
High Performance Computing (HPC) systems rely on fixed user-provided estimates of job time limits. These estimates are often inaccurate, resulting in inefficient resource use and the loss of unsaved w...
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May 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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🚀 Excited to share that our paper "Scalable Genomic Context Analysis with GCsnap2 on HPC Clusters" has been accepted at PASC25: pasc25.pasc-conference.org!
📄 Check out the preprint on arXiv: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

@joanampereira.bsky.social @cflorina.bsky.social
@dmi.unibas.ch
The PASC 2025 Conference
The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
pasc25.pasc-conference.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Great day at #SKAO Council Swiss Science Day in Zurich! Honored to present SPH-EXA entire team’s work with Lucio Mayer & Ruben Cabezon, showcasing advances in #HPC, #SPHEXA, & #EuroHPC for astrophysical simulations. Thanks #SKACH for an inspiring event!

#Astrophysics #Cosmology #HPC #Science
March 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A very motivated high school pupil joined our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social team for a few short weeks. Under Reto Krummenacher's supervision, he thrived and used #parallelprogramming and #hpc and to gain #performance! Congratulations Oleh! Thanks Reto! 👏
Gymnasium #Bäumlihof pupil Oleh Chekhovych explored how #Python can speed up the Mandelbrot set computations using #parallelcomputing with #PyOMP during his Profilwochen conducted in our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social.
Great work, Oleh!
#HPC #Coding #STEM
March 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
First time in New Zealand 🇳🇿—what an incredible experience! A land of breathtaking beauty, conserved nature, and a rich culture.

From the majestic Southern Alps to turquoise lakes, volcanic harbors, and the tiniest (and rarest) Hector’s dolphins, NZ is truly unique.

#NewZealand #Travel #Discovery
February 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
At #MulticoreWorld 2025 I explored the balance of Performance ⚖️ Portability ⚖️ Productivity—no one-size-fits-all, no free lunch! Investing in #PerformanceEngineering is key.
#OpenMP scheduling
#SPHEXA hydrodynamics
#DAPHNE: #HPC + #AI pipelines

Proud of our @dmi-hpc.bsky.social team & partners!
February 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The HPC group of @unibas.ch welcomes all students joining our High Performance Computing (HPC) and Operating Systems (OS) courses this spring semester!

We are excited to meet you all. Get ready for some high performance learning!

#HPC #OS

@unibas.ch
February 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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When researchers from 🇯🇵 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇩🇿 🇺🇦 🇷🇴 🇧🇷 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 🇳🇿 et. al meet - #SCIENCE #HPC #AI happens 🥰😇

Thank you #MulticoreWorld Nicolás Erdödy for bringing us all together! Such a gathering where 🧠s from diff. countries meet & brainstorm scientific solutions - matters!
@cflorina.bsky.social @hpcnotes.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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We are pleased to announce that the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel is now on Bluesky.

We look forward to sharing insights into our research in computer science and mathematics, as well as updates from our department. Let’s connect!
February 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Our 1st #RSE ☕️ hr #UDEL @udelaware.bsky.social Almost a dream come true 😇 Been wishing to form such #RSE focused groups for a while now.
Thanks to #NSF's new grant, we were able to bring students from diff. disciplines under 1 roof! More such activities to follow!
NSF DARSE sites.udel.edu/darse/
February 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Congratulations to Sascha Maibach on completing his BSc thesis: Verification and Validation of the OpenMP Standard Functionality with Focus on Scheduling Clauses! Shedding light on the challenges of testing OpenMP scheduling and how to validate its functionalities.

#HPC #OpenMP #ParallelComputing
February 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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📣 As of January 2025, researchers in Switzerland can participate in (almost all) calls for proposals of Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme. This means that they can submit project proposals in the role of coordinator. 🧪🧬🔬🔭

www.horizon-europe.ch

#HorizonEurope #Science #Innovation
December 20, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Just in time for the winter holidays 😊 Thanks @etp4hpc.bsky.social 👏
It’s an event that occurs only every 2 years! The ETP4HPC team is proud to announce that the ETP4HPC’s Strategic Research Agenda 6 - SRA6 - is out!
It is the work of dozens of experts from our members & provides a snapshot of the 🇪🇺 HPC technology developments and NEEDS
etp4hpc.eu/strategic-re...
December 16, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Some people seem to be able to eat whatever they like and still stay slim. Others just have to look at a hearty meal and they gain weight. What’s behind this?
Is there such a thing as a good or bad metabolism?
Some people seem to be able to eat whatever they like and still stay slim. Others just have to look at a hearty meal and they gain weight. What’s behind this? And can specific preparations actually “s...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:19 AM