Claudia Blaas-Schenner
@claudiablaas.bsky.social
Passionate about Supercomputing / High-Performance Computing (HPC) - doing HPC since more than 30 years and teaching HPC since more than 10 years - grown up as a physicist - comments and opinions are my own - she/her - https://asc.ac.at/training
Excellent reads – paper, essay, and blog post.
As we are starting procurement of our AI Factory Austria #AI:AT system soon, I especially enjoyed Glenn’s @glennklockwood.com perspective „of an HPC-turned-AI infrastructure practitioner“.
When #HPC meets #AI
As we are starting procurement of our AI Factory Austria #AI:AT system soon, I especially enjoyed Glenn’s @glennklockwood.com perspective „of an HPC-turned-AI infrastructure practitioner“.
When #HPC meets #AI
Dan Reed published an essay on what #HPC needs to do to remain competitive in the age of #AI yesterday (hpcdan.org/2026/02/06/h...). It was so engaging that I jotted notes as I read and figured I might as well publish them: blog.glennklockwood.com/2026/02/hpc-...
HPC in an AI world: swimming upstream with more conviction
Dan Reed recently published an essay, HPC In An AI World , that summarizes a longer-form statement piece he co-authored with Jack Dongarra a...
blog.glennklockwood.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Excellent reads – paper, essay, and blog post.
As we are starting procurement of our AI Factory Austria #AI:AT system soon, I especially enjoyed Glenn’s @glennklockwood.com perspective „of an HPC-turned-AI infrastructure practitioner“.
When #HPC meets #AI
As we are starting procurement of our AI Factory Austria #AI:AT system soon, I especially enjoyed Glenn’s @glennklockwood.com perspective „of an HPC-turned-AI infrastructure practitioner“.
When #HPC meets #AI
Access to advanced computing resources is getting easier:
The #EuroHPC #Federation Platform is set to federate all AI factory supercomputers, HPC systems, and quantum systems across Europe.
👉 my-eurohpc.eu
The #EuroHPC #Federation Platform is set to federate all AI factory supercomputers, HPC systems, and quantum systems across Europe.
👉 my-eurohpc.eu
Initial webinar series on the EuroHPC Federation Platform coming soon.
Registration for first session is now open:
Wed 4 Feb'26 - Introduction to the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP)
Free to attend, registration required.
More info: my-eurohpc.eu/training/
#HPC #EuroHPC
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
Registration for first session is now open:
Wed 4 Feb'26 - Introduction to the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP)
Free to attend, registration required.
More info: my-eurohpc.eu/training/
#HPC #EuroHPC
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
EFP Training & Webinars
Webinars First EFP webinar series (Feb-Apr 2026) In conjunction with the initial release of the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP), scheduled for March 2026, a series of introductory webinars are organ...
my-eurohpc.eu
January 22, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Access to advanced computing resources is getting easier:
The #EuroHPC #Federation Platform is set to federate all AI factory supercomputers, HPC systems, and quantum systems across Europe.
👉 my-eurohpc.eu
The #EuroHPC #Federation Platform is set to federate all AI factory supercomputers, HPC systems, and quantum systems across Europe.
👉 my-eurohpc.eu
Join us in Vienna for the:
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
🗓️ 7 April 2026 – internal #CE-NCCs-WG
🗓️ 8-10 April 2026 – public #ASHPC26
📍 Vienna, Austria
🔗 ashpc.eu/e/ASHPC26
Abstract submission and registration with eary-bird fees is possible until 15 February 2026.
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
🗓️ 7 April 2026 – internal #CE-NCCs-WG
🗓️ 8-10 April 2026 – public #ASHPC26
📍 Vienna, Austria
🔗 ashpc.eu/e/ASHPC26
Abstract submission and registration with eary-bird fees is possible until 15 February 2026.
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26ASHPC26 will take place at TUtheSky, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, 8–10 April 2026.ASHPC26 will continue the tradition of the annual Austrian HPC Meetings (201...
ashpc.eu
January 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Join us in Vienna for the:
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
🗓️ 7 April 2026 – internal #CE-NCCs-WG
🗓️ 8-10 April 2026 – public #ASHPC26
📍 Vienna, Austria
🔗 ashpc.eu/e/ASHPC26
Abstract submission and registration with eary-bird fees is possible until 15 February 2026.
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26
🗓️ 7 April 2026 – internal #CE-NCCs-WG
🗓️ 8-10 April 2026 – public #ASHPC26
📍 Vienna, Austria
🔗 ashpc.eu/e/ASHPC26
Abstract submission and registration with eary-bird fees is possible until 15 February 2026.
Today we had very special guests at #ASC - a group of students doing climate modelling with @blazgaspa.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at got to see the hardware they were using during the past semester 🌱🌍🌎🌱
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Today we had very special guests at #ASC - a group of students doing climate modelling with @blazgaspa.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at got to see the hardware they were using during the past semester 🌱🌍🌎🌱
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
This week in Foundations of #LLM Mastery:
✨Fine-tuning on one GPU
✨Fine-tuning on multi GPUs
Martin and Simeon are back with their cute Llamas and great explanations:
🦙 LLM parallelization
how to chop up a Llama
🦙 LLM evaluation
how to take a Llama‘s measurement
When #AI meets #HPC
✨Fine-tuning on one GPU
✨Fine-tuning on multi GPUs
Martin and Simeon are back with their cute Llamas and great explanations:
🦙 LLM parallelization
how to chop up a Llama
🦙 LLM evaluation
how to take a Llama‘s measurement
When #AI meets #HPC
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Very well deserved - congratulations to the team for making 1.25 km Global Earth System Simulations possible 👏
ACM Recognizes Team for 1 km Global Earth System Simulation with Gordon Bell Climate Prize
#SC25 #HPCwire
Link: ow.ly/qfsL50Xv74o
#SC25 #HPCwire
Link: ow.ly/qfsL50Xv74o
ACM Recognizes Team for 1 km Global Earth System Simulation with Gordon Bell Climate Prize - HPCwire
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20, 2025 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling in recognition of their project “Computin...
ow.ly
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Very well deserved - congratulations to the team for making 1.25 km Global Earth System Simulations possible 👏
Could not come to SC25 because I had to teach:
🎯 Parallel Programming with #MPI
🎯 One of the most iconic tools in #HPC
🎯 Don’t work hard – work in parallel 🚀
MPI processes are just like humans talking to each other – this is what Copilot gave me (back in Apr 2025) to depict MPI communication:
🎯 Parallel Programming with #MPI
🎯 One of the most iconic tools in #HPC
🎯 Don’t work hard – work in parallel 🚀
MPI processes are just like humans talking to each other – this is what Copilot gave me (back in Apr 2025) to depict MPI communication:
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Our Foundations of LLM Mastery course series has started this week with
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ Retrieval Augmented Generation
Fine-tuning on one(multi) GPU(s) with the 🦙Llamas🦙 will follow in two weeks - there are still a few seats available!
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
#AI:AT
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ Retrieval Augmented Generation
Fine-tuning on one(multi) GPU(s) with the 🦙Llamas🦙 will follow in two weeks - there are still a few seats available!
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
#AI:AT
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our Foundations of LLM Mastery course series has started this week with
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ Retrieval Augmented Generation
Fine-tuning on one(multi) GPU(s) with the 🦙Llamas🦙 will follow in two weeks - there are still a few seats available!
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
#AI:AT
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ Retrieval Augmented Generation
Fine-tuning on one(multi) GPU(s) with the 🦙Llamas🦙 will follow in two weeks - there are still a few seats available!
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
#AI:AT
TU Wien, my university and current employer, celebrates its 210th birthday today - congratulations TU Wien 💙 A great place to study and a great place to work 🎉
Die TU Wien wird heute 210 Jahre alt! 🥳
210 Jahre Forschung, Lehre und Neugier.
210 Jahre, in denen wir Technik für Menschen gestalten. 💙
©️Foto: TU Wien/Matthias Heisler
210 Jahre Forschung, Lehre und Neugier.
210 Jahre, in denen wir Technik für Menschen gestalten. 💙
©️Foto: TU Wien/Matthias Heisler
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
TU Wien, my university and current employer, celebrates its 210th birthday today - congratulations TU Wien 💙 A great place to study and a great place to work 🎉
This week we've moved parallelism to a new level – our DL course and our OpenMP course were done in parallel – which picture is your favorite?
Next week, we'll start with the November edition of our famous LLM course series – there are still seats available!
When #AI meets #HPC
#AI:AT #ASC
Next week, we'll start with the November edition of our famous LLM course series – there are still seats available!
When #AI meets #HPC
#AI:AT #ASC
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The new training season has started already a while ago and we've already covered a lot: #HPC Literacy, C++, #AI Hackathon, Trustworthy AI Webinars (in German and English), How to Run AI Workflows in MATLAB, CUDA, Debugging and Optimizing with Linaro Forge... – it's been a busy October here at #ASC.
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The new training season has started already a while ago and we've already covered a lot: #HPC Literacy, C++, #AI Hackathon, Trustworthy AI Webinars (in German and English), How to Run AI Workflows in MATLAB, CUDA, Debugging and Optimizing with Linaro Forge... – it's been a busy October here at #ASC.
I got featured by EVITA.
Happy to contribute to and improve European HPC training through EVITA 🚀
Happy to contribute to and improve European HPC training through EVITA 🚀
Meet our EVITA Leadership – #3: Dr. Claudia Blaas-Schenner @claudiablaas.bsky.social from TU Wien.
With 30+ years in HPC and a passion for teaching, Claudia leads EVITA’s Competence & Qualification Framework, shaping Europe’s HPC skills.
Mountain hiker, cat lover, and photography enthusiast!
With 30+ years in HPC and a passion for teaching, Claudia leads EVITA’s Competence & Qualification Framework, shaping Europe’s HPC skills.
Mountain hiker, cat lover, and photography enthusiast!
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I got featured by EVITA.
Happy to contribute to and improve European HPC training through EVITA 🚀
Happy to contribute to and improve European HPC training through EVITA 🚀
Amazing - just 1.25 kilometres - what a fantastic achievement 👏
Cool and impactful project led by the MPI-M: coupled simulation of the full Earth system in 1.25km resolution. Unprecedented complexity, fidelity, and performance at 82.5 simulated days per day. Accelerated by DaCe on GH200 - next generation #HPC for #climate science is here!
Global climate simulations achieve 1.25 km resolution—team nominated for Climate Gordon Bell Prize | CSCS
For the first time, scientists have run global coupled climate simulations at a resolution of just 1.25 kilometres. Using CSCS’s “Alps” supercomputer, the team including researchers from ETH Zürich…
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October 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Amazing - just 1.25 kilometres - what a fantastic achievement 👏
What are you doing this week? I am spending my afternoons and nights as a remote participant at #MPIforum and #EuroMPI + #IWOMP
#HPC #MPI
#HPC #MPI
The 1st joint keynote for EuroMPI/USA 2025 & IWOMP 2025 will be given by
Amanda Randles @profamandarandles.bsky.social
HPC in Health: Scaling Vascular Digital Twins from Millions of Heartbeats to Petabytes of Data
Registration is still open & remote participation is free of charge.
#HPC #AI #MPI
Amanda Randles @profamandarandles.bsky.social
HPC in Health: Scaling Vascular Digital Twins from Millions of Heartbeats to Petabytes of Data
Registration is still open & remote participation is free of charge.
#HPC #AI #MPI
September 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Claudia Blaas-Schenner
EVITA presented at the All-Hands in Tallinn! 🚀 We shared our mission, training framework, and ideas for collaboration with NCCs, sparking great discussions. Thanks to all for the active exchange — excited to build on this together!
#EuroHPC #EVITA #EuroCC #CASTIEL #HPC #Training #Collaboration
#EuroHPC #EVITA #EuroCC #CASTIEL #HPC #Training #Collaboration
September 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Striving for peak performance? Need some help?
🎓 The first autumn training events are online - ASC-Linux, ASC-Intro, C++, CUDA, DL, MPI, and more to come
🎓 Students at Austrian universities can earn ECTS
asc.ac.at/training/
events.asc.ac.at/category/4/
📸 Peak performance - greatings from Madeira
🎓 The first autumn training events are online - ASC-Linux, ASC-Intro, C++, CUDA, DL, MPI, and more to come
🎓 Students at Austrian universities can earn ECTS
asc.ac.at/training/
events.asc.ac.at/category/4/
📸 Peak performance - greatings from Madeira
September 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Striving for peak performance? Need some help?
🎓 The first autumn training events are online - ASC-Linux, ASC-Intro, C++, CUDA, DL, MPI, and more to come
🎓 Students at Austrian universities can earn ECTS
asc.ac.at/training/
events.asc.ac.at/category/4/
📸 Peak performance - greatings from Madeira
🎓 The first autumn training events are online - ASC-Linux, ASC-Intro, C++, CUDA, DL, MPI, and more to come
🎓 Students at Austrian universities can earn ECTS
asc.ac.at/training/
events.asc.ac.at/category/4/
📸 Peak performance - greatings from Madeira
Reposted by Claudia Blaas-Schenner
Great to see this article! We’re also happy to have @claudiablaas.bsky.social supporting us with teaching, running climate model simulations on an HPC system, and guiding us through ASC. Her involvement is certainly an inspiring example for our female students.
„Sei mutig, glaube an dein Potenzial, bleib neugierig“: Das rät Claudia Blaas-Schenner allen jungen Kolleginnen, die eine Karriere im High-Performance Computing (HPC) anstreben.
Zum Interview im Blog von @eurocc-austria.at: eurocc-austria.at/blog/sei-mut...
Zum Interview im Blog von @eurocc-austria.at: eurocc-austria.at/blog/sei-mut...
„Sei mutig, glaube an dein Potenzial, bleib neugierig“
"Supercomputing ist nur etwas für Männer": Der Mythos hält sich hartnäckig. Physikerin und HPC-Pionierin Claudia Blaas-Schenner ist eine jener Frauen, die dieses Märchen ohne viel Getöse auflöst. Waru...
eurocc-austria.at
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Great to see this article! We’re also happy to have @claudiablaas.bsky.social supporting us with teaching, running climate model simulations on an HPC system, and guiding us through ASC. Her involvement is certainly an inspiring example for our female students.
September 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Claudia Blaas-Schenner
“Be bold, believe in your potential, stay curious.” #HPC expert Claudia Blaas-Schenner on why #diversity is essential for #supercomputing – and how the initiative Women in HPC drives change. Read more: eurocc-austria.at/en/blog/be-b...
@claudiablaas.bsky.social @womeninhpc.org
#WomenInTech
@claudiablaas.bsky.social @womeninhpc.org
#WomenInTech
“Be bold, believe in your potential, stay curious”
"Supercomputing is just for men" is a common myth. Physicist and HPC pioneer Claudia Blaas-Schenner is one of the women quietly disproving it – without fuss. In this interview, she explains why and ho...
eurocc-austria.at
September 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“Be bold, believe in your potential, stay curious.” #HPC expert Claudia Blaas-Schenner on why #diversity is essential for #supercomputing – and how the initiative Women in HPC drives change. Read more: eurocc-austria.at/en/blog/be-b...
@claudiablaas.bsky.social @womeninhpc.org
#WomenInTech
@claudiablaas.bsky.social @womeninhpc.org
#WomenInTech
Call for early access to #QuantumComputing resources!
Open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions.
System: IBEX from #AQT
Deadline: 13 October 2025
www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...
Open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions.
System: IBEX from #AQT
Deadline: 13 October 2025
www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...
Die Universität Innsbruck bietet Forschenden an allen österreichischen Institutionen erstmals Zugang zu einem #quantencomputer und eröffnet damit ganz neue Möglichkeiten für die Forschung. Rechenzeit für insgesamt fünf Forschungsprojekte wurden nun […]
[Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]
[Original post on social.uibk.ac.at]
September 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Call for early access to #QuantumComputing resources!
Open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions.
System: IBEX from #AQT
Deadline: 13 October 2025
www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...
Open to researchers affiliated with Austrian academic or research institutions.
System: IBEX from #AQT
Deadline: 13 October 2025
www.uibk.ac.at/en/scientifi...
This week in
✨Foundations of #LLM Mastery
✨Fine-tuning on one GPU
✨Fine-tuning on multi GPUs
Martin and Simeon rocked the floor with cute Llamas and great explanations:
🦙 LLM parallelization
how to chop up a Llama
🦙 LLM evaluation
how to take a Llama‘s measurement
When #AI meets #HPC
✨Foundations of #LLM Mastery
✨Fine-tuning on one GPU
✨Fine-tuning on multi GPUs
Martin and Simeon rocked the floor with cute Llamas and great explanations:
🦙 LLM parallelization
how to chop up a Llama
🦙 LLM evaluation
how to take a Llama‘s measurement
When #AI meets #HPC
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Claudia Blaas-Schenner
Looks like the course material is also all open. Good examples to show how all the pieces can fit together in practice: gitlab.tuwien.ac.at/vsc-public/t...
ASC Public / Training Materials / LLMs On Supercomputers · GitLab
TUgitLab
gitlab.tuwien.ac.at
August 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Looks like the course material is also all open. Good examples to show how all the pieces can fit together in practice: gitlab.tuwien.ac.at/vsc-public/t...
It’s #RAG time in our course series
✨Foundations of #LLM Mastery
✨Retrieval Augmented Generation
Today, Thomas showed how to build a RAG system from scratch and explained how to overcome the challenges and use RAG effectively 🚀
✨https://events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-rag-2025-08
When #AI meets #HPC
✨Foundations of #LLM Mastery
✨Retrieval Augmented Generation
Today, Thomas showed how to build a RAG system from scratch and explained how to overcome the challenges and use RAG effectively 🚀
✨https://events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-rag-2025-08
When #AI meets #HPC
August 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The #ASC training is back with the summer edition of our course series
✨Foundations of LLM Mastery
Yesterday, Simeon talked about
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-prompt...
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
#AI:AT #LLM
✨Foundations of LLM Mastery
Yesterday, Simeon talked about
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-prompt...
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
#AI:AT #LLM
August 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The #ASC training is back with the summer edition of our course series
✨Foundations of LLM Mastery
Yesterday, Simeon talked about
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-prompt...
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
#AI:AT #LLM
✨Foundations of LLM Mastery
Yesterday, Simeon talked about
✨Prompt Engineering Essentials
✨ events.asc.ac.at/e/LLM-prompt...
When #AI meets #HPC
@asc.ac.at
@eurocc-austria.at
#AI:AT #LLM
Reposted by Claudia Blaas-Schenner
⚡ The Cray-1 (1976) was the fastest computer in the world: 80 MHz, over 5 tons, and shaped like a futuristic lounge chair.
Today, you carry more power in your pocket.
#FunFactFriday #TechHistory #CommPath #ThenVsNow #HPC
Today, you carry more power in your pocket.
#FunFactFriday #TechHistory #CommPath #ThenVsNow #HPC
August 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
⚡ The Cray-1 (1976) was the fastest computer in the world: 80 MHz, over 5 tons, and shaped like a futuristic lounge chair.
Today, you carry more power in your pocket.
#FunFactFriday #TechHistory #CommPath #ThenVsNow #HPC
Today, you carry more power in your pocket.
#FunFactFriday #TechHistory #CommPath #ThenVsNow #HPC