The NCC Netherlands

EuroHPC User Day 2024
2024-10-22 - 2024-10-23 | Eye Museum Amsterdam, IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam, 1031 KT
Join us for the EuroHPC User Day 2024, happening in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on October 22-23, 2024.
Hosted by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and our EuroCC Netherlands, this second annual event brings together the EuroHPC user community to:

Showcase EuroHPC projects utilizing European HPC supercomputing resources
Share best practices in project development
Gather feedback from existing users
Engage with potential new users

This event offers European supercomputing users the opportunity to explore a variety of topics, deepen their understanding of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking opportunities, and learn about available user support.
Call for Papers
EuroHPC JU system users are encouraged to present their work by submitting papers demonstrating the scientific excellence of projects utilizing EuroHPC resources. Selected papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science EuroHPC User Days 2024 Book of Proceedings.
Submission Details:

Deadline: August 15, 2024
Length: Maximum of 10 pages
Content: Description of the experiment, supercomputing resources used, linked references, XML versions, and citable DOI numbers
Accessibility: Open Access (CC-BY license)

Submit your manuscripts here.
Event Details
Venue: Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
Schedule:

Tuesday, October 22:

Morning: Plenary session
Afternoon: Parallel sessions
Evening: Drink reception hosted by EuroHPC JU and NCC Netherlands

Wednesday, October 23:

Morning: Plenary session
Parallel sessions
Event concludes at noon

Registration: Register here
Find the preliminary schedule here.
Don’t miss this chance to connect with the EuroHPC community and enhance your supercomputing projects!

Advanced Computing User Day 2024
2024-12-12 | Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, Jaarbeursplein 6, Utrecht, 3521 AL
Advanced computing user day 2025Date: 12 December, 2024Location: Jaarbeurs, Utrecht
SURF and EuroCC Netherlands cordially invite you to the Advanced Computing User Day! On Dec. 12, Advanced Computing User Day brings together leading experts, entrepreneurs and users from the advanced computing community for a day of inspiring talks, workshops and valuable networking opportunities.
Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out in the world of advanced computing, Advanced Computing User Day offers you the chance to learn from other users, gain inspiration, hear latest developments, and connect with like-minded professionals from the research and business fields.
Put the date in your calendar and don’t miss it! Check the programme >
More information about the program and registration will follow soon. Keep an eye on our website and newsletters for updates.
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Keynote
Cees Snoek
Join Professor Cees Snoek at the Advanced Computing User Day 2024 for an engaging keynote exploring the limitations of multimodal foundation models. While these AI models excel in multimedia generation and transfer learning, they struggle with tasks like spatial grounding, temporal reasoning, and aligning with ethical and societal values. Drawing from his groundbreaking research at the University of Amsterdam’s Video & Image Sense Lab, Snoek will showcase sustainable methods to enhance these models without full retraining. With a prolific career spanning academia and industry, Snoek brings unparalleled expertise in AI-driven video and image understanding to this thought-provoking session.
Featured Speaker
Thomas Wolf
Join Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, at PyData Amsterdam for an inspiring talk. A leading advocate for open science, Thomas has transformed AI accessibility through groundbreaking tools like the Hugging Face Transformers and Datasets libraries. His work bridges academic research and industry, highlighted by projects like the BigScience Workshop, which birthed BLOOM, a large-scale open-source language model. With a Ph.D. in Statistical/Quantum Physics and a unique interdisciplinary approach, Thomas combines technical expertise with a passion for education. Don’t miss his insights on advancing AI accessibility and overcoming the field’s limitations.
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Last Years Advanced Computing User Day
After Movie Advanced Computing User Day 2023 Dive into the essence of the Advanced Computing User Day by watching the after movie – a genuine portrayal of shared experiences, insights, and the vibrant community that came together.

ADVANCED COMPUTING USER DAY 2025
2025-12-04 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, Jaarbeursplein 6, Utrecht, 3521 AL
Learn from other users, gain inspiration, hear latest developments, and connect with like-minded professionals from the research and business fields.
Register hereSURF and EuroCC Netherlands cordially invite you to the Advanced Computing User Day! On 4 december 2025 Advanced Computing User Day brings together leading experts, entrepreneurs and users from the advanced computing community for a day of inspiring talks, workshops and valuable networking opportunities.
Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out in the world of advanced computing, Advanced Computing User Day offers you the chance to learn from other users, gain inspiration, hear latest developments, and connect with like-minded professionals from the research and business fields.
Register and put the date in your calendar and don’t miss it! More information about the programme will follow soon.
Keep an eye on our website and newsletter for updates.

LUMI SmartSim Workshop
2026-03-31 10:30 - 16:00 | SURF Utrecht, Moreelsepark 48, Utrecht, 3511 EP, Netherlands
You are welcome to join us in 1-day hands-on workshop “LUMI SmartSim”. Using machine learning (ML) within HPC applications offers the advantage that it can improve the overall efficiency of HPC workflows by allowing ML predictions to help guide or replace parts of simulations. However, there are challenges in coupling the two approaches as HPC applications are typically written in C, C++ or Fortran and run on CPUs, whereas ML frameworks are usually Python based and benefit from being run on GPUs. In this tutorial we will introduce SmartSim, an open-source framework that has been developed to help address these challenges and allow researchers to easily adapt their traditional HPC workloads to include ML. This is done with a distributed orchestrator, which allows data to be exchanged between the HPC application and the ML model.
Event Info
Dates: 31 March 2026
Time: 10:30 – 16:00 CEST
Location: Room 2.03, SURF Utrecht, Kantoren Hoog Overborch (Hoog Catharijne), Moreelsepark 48, 3511 EP Utrecht
Organizer: HPE, LUMI User Support Team (LUST), SURF Utrecht
Target group
LUMI users interested in integrating machine learning into existing HPC workflows.
Learning outcomes
In the morning session, we will consider how ML and HPC applications may be coupled together and then give an overview of SmartSim and show how it can interact with simulation data in HPC applications in order to integrate ML models. We will show real examples of how SmartSim has been used in different fields of research such as Computational Fluid Dynamics and Climate Modelling. We also explain how SmartSim can be integrated within an application and how to deploy the resulting workflow.
The afternoon session will take a more hands-on approach where attendees can run examples of hybrid scientific simulation/AI workflows using SmartSim. Attendees will learn how to launch SmartSim leveraging the system’s native batch scheduler and job launcher and gain a practical understanding of the modifications required to adapt HPC applications to use ML. We will also provide examples where attendees can run real applications that utilise SmartSim.
Agenda
10:30 Overview of ML and HPC coupling and introduction to SmartSim
11:30 Practical use of SmartSim
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Connecting to LUMI
13:30 Hands on practical examples
15:00 Open session: Discuss using SmartSim in user’s own applications or run more examples
16:00 Finish
Registration
Deadline: 23 March 2026, at 23:59 CEST
Click here to register for the workshop.
Please register by the deadline to secure your place. Spaces are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation in the workshop is free of charge and includes coffee/tea/water and a few snacks during the days. Please be prepared to cover your own lunch costs.
We have 48 in-person seats and every participant will receive a quick confirmation on a first-come, first-served basis so that they can arrange travel.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own applications to try with SmartSim in the afternoon session or be prepared consider how SmartSim might be used for their own workflows/applications.
Smartsim is portable to many HPC systems and has been run on laptops and large clusters. The machine learning backend supports both Nvidia and AMD GPUs and CPU backends are provided for Apple (both Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux (x86_64). On HPC systems the SmartSim infrastructure library can integrate with Slurm, PBS and LSF.

Advanced Computing User Day 2026
2026-12-08 09:00 - 17:30 | KIT, Mauritskade 63, Amsterdam, 1092 AD, Netherlands
Where the advanced computing community meets
ACUD 2026 brings together researchers, HPC users, engineers, and professionals from across the Netherlands for a day of genuine exchange. Whether you work on HPC infrastructure, run compute-heavy research workflows, or focus on making advanced computing more accessible, this is your event.
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