INNOVATIVE COMPUTING
FOR A SMARTER FLANDERS

Vlaams Supercomputer Center (VSC) supplies high-performance computing to academia and industry. Researchers at Flanders Make are using the infrastructure to train AI models at the heart of industrial innovation. For example, we have developed a modern industrial assembly tracking and feedback system. This tool provides operators with interactive digital instructions via AI models that automatically identify the placement of different assembly parts. Each part is paired to an AI model trained by synthetic renderings of the piece under different highly variable conditions. When training at scale, VSC’s High Performance Computing nodes reduce time to deployment. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) represents a second practical use case for VSC infrastructure. Here, we use high-speed imaging and AI to spot any defects in a 3D printer melting metal powder into solid steel objects layer by layer. VSC accelerates the hyperparameter optimization of the AI models, which would take far too long if performed on standard hardware. Thanks to this technique, we could reduce the error of our laser parameter prediction network by a factor of three. @FlandersMakeVideos #ai #artificialintelligence #belgium #cloud #machinelearning #robotics #compute #data

Climate scientist Prof. Dr. Wim Thiery from Vrije Universiteit Brussel has been using the VSC for a long time to model the future evolution of climate change. In his Success Story, he talks about what the computer power of VSC’s supercomputers means for his research and our understanding of the global climate system. #supercomputing #Climatechange #compute #data #skils #innovation #technology #future #research #event #atmosphere #Europe

Find out how Digital Humanities uses VSC’s computational power to train models in order to extract the knowledge that researchers need from hundreds of years of digitized newspapers. The latest #SuccessStories video features Sally Chambers from Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities at Ghent University. #supercomputing #cloud #cloudcomputing #compute #data #skils #physics #economy #innovation #technology #future #research #event #computing

Recorded presentation of Aleksi Kallio, LUMI A.I Specialist and Development Manager at CSC Finland during VSC Industry Road Tour. VSC, together with EuroCC Belgium, organised on November 8, 2021 a first session of their Industry Road Tour. Aleksi Kallio, AI specialist at LUMI, gave the keynote presentation to an enthusiastic group of AI specialists. Title of the presentation: The true promise of HPC for AI Description: In this talk a will first introduce HPC: why it is not only about raw computing power. Uptake of HPC systems in the company world has been limited but that is likely to change with more digital product development and data driven decision making. HPC could play an important role in the future of AI development and provide a competitive edge for the adopters. I will discuss potential use cases in large-scale foundational machine learning models, reinforcement learning for robotics, and more. Bio: Dr. Aleksi Kallio works as the development manager of AI and data analytics at CSC - IT Center for Science. CSC is the Finnish center for supercomputing and will be hosting the EuroHPC LUMI flagship computing facility. He is a software architect turned into data scientist, with research background spanning data mining and machine learning on diverse application areas. His team is currently developing the AI computing environments at CSC and reaching out to AI companies to bridge the gap between HPC and AI. #supercomputing #ai #onlineevent #belgium #flanders #vlaanderen #cloudcomputing #gpucomputing #hpc

🧬 The opportunities and capabilities presented by our #supercomputers are truly staggering. Álvaro Cortés Calabuig from Genomics Core Leuven (UZ Leuven & KU Leuven) is telling us his #SuccessStory on how our supercomputers and support team offered all computational capabilities for DNA sequencing data analysis. ⁉What are you looking forward to? #supercomputing #artificialintelligence #datascience data #dna #flanders #belgium #covid #support #artificialintelligence

🗨 "With the help of VSC, we've been able to ensure that all researchers in Flanders have access to the resources they need to do data intensive analysis in life sciences." A nice application of Tier-1 Cloud: running the Galaxy workflow manager for bioinformatics applications. In this story, Frederik Coppens, IT manager at VIB/Ghent University and Head of Node at ELIXIR Belgium is telling us how VSC is bringing the research in Flanders to a next level. ⁉What are you looking forward to? #supercomputing #artificialintelligence #datascience 📌Click #vschpc and follow for more content or visit our website: https://www.vscentrum.be #data #research #belgium #Europe Background music by TimTaj (Envato Market, order id: 136030780)

A recorded presentation by Benoît Dompierre, Team Leader for EuroCC at CENAERO, which was recorded during EuroHPC’s LUMI kick-off event in Belgium. #Supercomputing​​​​ #Data​​​​ #EuroHPC​​​​ #AI​​ #LUMI

A recorded presentation by Charles Hirsch Prof. em., founder of #NUMECA, offering CFD solutions , which was recorded during EuroHPC’s LUMI kick-off event in Belgium. #Supercomputing​​​ #Data​​​ #EuroHPC​​​ #AI​ #LUMI